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5. Any expansion in production of the plant or waste control facilities or drainage from such facilities should be done in a manner that precludes any possibility of polluting the Coal Creek water shed basin. WHEREAS, it is the City Council's opinion that the proposed project, if properly implemented pursuant to the avowed open space purposes, could have a very beneficial environrnental impact and it is the City Council's thought in keeping with the hopeful attainment of this goal, that the proposed project could be more effectively implemented by and the maintenance in perpetuity thereof more assured by another appropriate public agency whose charges and experiences are more in line with the nature, purpose, and needs of the proposed project - an agency such as the Division of Game, Fish, and Parks of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and that under such an approach, the land proposed to be acquired could be placed in a State-wide or regional park system which would also help to assure and guarantee that said land would always remain as open space; NOW, THEREFORE, BE I'T RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: THAT the City Council hereby officially sets forth its position that in order for the Environmental Statement to adequately reflect and sub- stantiate the intended purposes and goals of the proposed land acquisition project and in order for the integrity of purpose of the proposed project to be assured, then the rnecessary assurances, guarantees, specific plans, and revised cost-benefit analysis as described and set forth hereinabove in this Resolution need to be adequately addressed, answered, and included in the final Environmental Impact Statement and that in the interest of the most possible effective and efficient implementation of the proposed project, the alternate plan of implementation as suggested and set forth hereinabove in this Resolution should be fully explored before any final decisions are reached; and THAT the City Council, on the basis of the information presently available to it, hereby officially registere~: its opposition to the proposed land acquisition by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission until such time as the needed assurances, guarantees, specific plans, and cost-benefit analysis are properly included in the Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed project and until such time as the alternate plan of implementation as des- cribed hereinabove has been fully explored. PASSED, ADOPTED, AND SIGNED this 1st day of August, 1972. MAY R ATTEST:. qty rk -2-