City of Milwaukee - File #: 201150

• File #: 201150
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 12/15/2020
• In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• Final action: 1/19/2021
• Title: Substitute resolution authorizing the City of Milwaukee to enter into a Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern Non-Federal Sponsors Funding Contribution Agreement with the Wisconsin Gas LLC and Wisconsin Electric Power Company (doing business as We Energies), the County of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, and the State of Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources.
• Sponsors: ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. KOVAC
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS, MILWAUKEE COUNTY, MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT, WATER POLLUTION, WE ENERGIES, WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
1/28/2021	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
1/19/2021	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
1/6/2021	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Dave Misky - DCD Adam Tindall-Schlicht - Port Kevin Kuschel - DCD Ald. Kovac	Pass	5:0
12/15/2020	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
201150
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
190877
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN AND KOVAC
Title
Substitute resolution authorizing the City of Milwaukee to enter into a Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern Non-Federal Sponsors Funding Contribution Agreement with the Wisconsin Gas LLC and Wisconsin Electric Power Company (doing business as We Energies), the County of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, and the State of Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources.
Analysis
This substitute resolution will authorize the City of Milwaukee to enter into a funding contribution agreement with multiple non-federal sponsors to remediate legacy contamination in the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern.
Body
Whereas, The Department of City Development, Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee, Port of Milwaukee, and other City agencies (collectively known as “the City”) have been coordinating with the US Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”), the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (“DNR”), Milwaukee County, We Energies, and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (“MMSD”) to develop plans to remove the Milwaukee Estuary as an Area of Concern (“AOC”); and

Whereas, The Milwaukee Estuary includes the nearshore waters of Lake Michigan, portions of the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers, and a segment of Lincoln Creek and was designated an AOC in 1987 by the International Joint Commission because of historical modifications and pollutant loads that contributed toxic contamination to the AOC and Lake Michigan; and

Whereas, In October 2019, the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee (“Common Council”) adopted File No. 190877 authorizing the appropriate City representatives to execute a Great Lake Legacy Act (“GLLA”) Project Agreement with the USEPA, DNR, Milwaukee County, We Energies, and MMSD; and

Whereas, The purpose of the project agreement was to improve the conditions in the AOC to protect human health and the aquatic environm...