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9/4/84 Page -11- There are certain options that are avail- able to Homart, i.e. possibly selling the treatment capacity to the City, giving it to the City, etc. What seems to be more important at this point is that if we are pushing the 1.20 MGD and they are allo- cated 100 residential permits next year and unlimited commercial permits there maybe some problem in actually issuing those permits given the City's existing treat- ment capacity. Mr. Stahl felt that Council should be aware of that when considering the wastewater treatment plant expansion, and also a possible resolution to the existing encroachment. Mr. Schuler stated one of the problems that the City would run into with the discharge site application permit is the incremental increase. If you continue to reserve just the .34 to Homart as it relates to the dis- charge permit of the. site application, that you may be going after such a big expansion of the plant that it is going to be hard to get the permit. He had spoken with the State Health Department .and they fe1.t that the reaonable increment was .9 MGD which was about a 40% increase. Mr. Schuler stated that he felt that the City did have the actual physical plant capacity to pro- duce another .34. Mayor Meier inquired of Mr. Schuler, if the money is available, can the wastewater plant be expanded beyond the permitted capacity, get the permit and then 2-3 years later just extend it to that other capacity? Mr. Schuler stated yes, that is what the City did last time. Councilman Luce asked how tight the con- struction schedule was that Mr. Schuler had presented? He stated that they felt that if everything went well they could beat that schedule by 3-4 months. AUTHORIZATION TO PROCEED Councilman Leary moved, Councilman Cussen WITH CONDITION seconded that Council authorize the staff to proceed on the schedule that is outlined with the understanding that the July 1, 1985 date is going to be subject to the avail-