TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF NOVEMBER 15, 2018
COMMITTEE ON REAL ESTATE
Mr. John P. Murray, Acting Executive Director
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Authority to issue a 9-month permit to Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC to install, maintain, operate, repair and remove an approximate 150-foot overhead electrical cable between its metering station known as Clearing Meter Station 139 and the District’s Main Gate Control Building located at Main Channel Parcel 34.10 in Summit, Illinois. Consideration shall be $5,000.00
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Dear Sir:
Since 1963, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC (“NGPL”) has operated a gas metering station known as Clearing Meter Station 139 (“Station 139”) on an approximate 100’ x 130’ portion of Main Channel Parcel 34.10 in Summit, Illinois under a perpetual easement. Station 139 is used for metering natural gas and monitoring a cathodic protection system (“CPS”) that prevents corrosion to two nearby natural gas pipelines belonging to NGPL and Nicor Gas Pipeline Company (“Nicor”) respectively. Both pipelines traverse the western end of Parcel 34.10. The District also operates a CPS on Parcel 34.10 beneath the Main Gate Control Building of its LASMA site, which prevents corrosion to underground gates and a steel tunnel liner servicing the McCook Reservoir. The District temporarily suspended operation of its CPS after receiving reports that the two CPS systems interfere with one another.
To correct the problem, NGPL has requested a 9-month permit to connect the two systems with an approximate 150-foot overhead electrical cable that will be placed on existing overhead poles between Station 139 and the Main Gate Control Building. NGPL states that the overhead cable is an interim solution and that its planned long-term solution is to connect the two systems with an underground cable. A separate request requiring Board of Commissioners’ authorization will be made by NGPL in the future concerning this proposed underground installation.
The District’s technical departments have reviewed this request and have no objections thereto. A permit fee in the amount of $5,000.00 is recommended, as the pro-rata share of 10% of the fair market value of the land would yield a fee less than the District’s minimum permit fee of $5,000.00.
It is requested that the Acting Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and approve the issuance of a 9-month permit to Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC to install, maintain, operate, repair and remove an approximate 150-foot overhead electrical cable between its metering station known as Clearing Meter Station 139 and the District’s Main Gate Control Building located at Main Channel Parcel 34.10 in Summit, Illinois. Consideration shall be $5,000.00.
It is also requested that the Acting Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and the Clerk be authorized and directed to execute said permit agreement after it is approved by the General Counsel as to form and legality.
Requested, Susan T. Morakalis, General Counsel, STM:CMM:JAW:vp
Recommended, John P. Murray, Acting Executive Director
Respectfully Submitted, David J. Walsh, Chairman Committee on Real Estate Development
Disposition of this agenda item will be documented in the official Regular Board Meeting Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for November 15, 2018
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