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Second, the Department of Environmental Quality guidelines <br />recommend tha~ sewer treatment facilities should be planned and. <br />constructed for a 20-year population projection period. <br /> <br />The planning horizon in the amendments is appropriate for the <br />nature of the planned facilities, sewer treatment facilities <br />should be constructed with long range planning goals. <br /> <br />3. The proposed PFSP ~n~ments are a project list as re~ired by <br />State statutes and implementing regulations. <br /> <br />Home Builders insists that the proposed PFSP amendments, <br />particularly the proposed new tables, are not a ~project list" <br />within the meaning of state statutes and regulations. Home <br />Builders argument is without merit. The proposed sanitary sewer. <br />project list is comparable to the existing project lists in the <br />PFSP by Springfield Utility Board, EWEB.and the other <br />participating jurisidictions' lists. The proposed list also <br />'complies with the LCDC's Goal 11 implementing administrative <br />rules. <br /> <br />OAR 660-001-0005(6) defines "public facility project" as follows: <br /> <br /> ~A public'facility project is the construction or <br /> reconstruction of a water, sewer, or transportation' <br /> facility within a public facility system that is funded' <br /> or utilized by members of the public."~ <br /> <br />Public facility system, as it relates to sanitary sewers, are <br />limited to the following: a) treatment facility system; and/or b) <br />primary collection system. (OAR 660-011-0005(7)). <br /> <br /> Proposed Table 16a lists six treatment facility'system projects: <br />WPCF Treatment Project; Residual Treatment Project; and <br /> Beneficial Reuse Project. It also includes three pump stations <br /> (i.e., collection system projects): Willakenzie Pump Station, <br /> Screw Pump Station and Glenwood Pump Station. This list complies <br /> with both the statute and the administrative rule definition of <br /> ~project list." <br /> <br /> In their oral testimony Home Builders stated that a more <br /> appropriate list of projects for ?FSP purposes would be MWMC's <br /> 20-year project list that is included in MWMC's 2004 Facilities <br /> Plan. MWMC adopted the 2004 Facilities Plan and 20-year project <br /> list to satisfy DEQ requirements for facilities planning and to <br /> comply with the requirements of ORS 223.309(1) that.a facilities <br /> plan and list of proposed capital improvements be adopted prior <br /> to the establishment of a system development charge. <br /> <br /> 2-2 <br /> <br /> <br />