TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF APRIL 1, 2010
COMMITTEE ON REAL ESTATE
Mr. Richard Lanyon, Executive Director
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Authorize the issuance of a six-month permit to BP to remove underground storage tanks, conduct supplemental soil borings, and install temporary monitoring wells on District real estate located at 3266 West Devon Avenue in Lincolnwood, Illinois, North Shore Channel Parcel 7.03. Consideration shall be $10.00
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Dear Sir:
BP, successor in interest to Standard Oil Co., leased the subject property to operate a gasoline service station from 1955 through 1979. The site contains five underground storage tanks placed by BP which preliminary environmental assessments indicate are contaminating the site.
In 2005, BP entered the site and conducted soil boring tests and installed monitoring wells so that the extent of contamination can be defined.
After ongoing negotiations between the District and BP relating to a more fully defined investigation plan, BP has agreed to re-enter the property to remove the underground storage tanks, conduct supplemental soil boring tests, and re-install monitoring wells to further delineate the contamination. Thereafter, a remediation plan can be developed.
BP has been advised that an environmental remediation plan which would obtain Tier I Residential clean-up levels at the site, the level in which it was originally leased by BP in 1955, will be requested once the site investigation and tank removal actions are completed.
The Site Remediation Section has reviewed and approved BP’s plans to remove the underground storage tanks and to conduct these supplemental investigations.
An annual fee of $10.00 is being recommended since BP is performing this work at the District’s request.
It is requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and approve the issuance of a six-month permit to allow BP to remove underground storage tanks, conduct supplemental soil borings, and install temporary monitoring wells on District real estate located at 3266 West Devon Avenue in Lincolnwood, Illinois, and known as North Shore Channel Parcel 7.03. Consideration shall be $10.00.
It is further requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and direct the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and the Clerk to execute the permit agreement after it is approved by the General Counsel as to form and legality.
Requested, Frederick M. Feldman, General Counsel, FMF:CL:STM:rg
Recommended, Richard Lanyon, Executive Director
Respectfully Submitted, Terrence J. O’Brien, 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 April 1, 2010
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