HomeMy WebLinkAbout1553 ResolutionPASSED this 20th day of Decem
Mayor.
nd approved by the
ells, City Clerk
TO FORM
oxia.
r,e.:g A. Ru stello, C y Attorney
A
RESOLUTION NO 1553
A RESOLUTION authorizing the City Attorney to institute suit
against the City of Richland due to an inadequate
environmental impact statement for the Columbia
Point Development Program.
WHEREAS, the City of Richland, Washington, has prepared and
adopted a final environmental impact statement for the City of
Richland Columbia Point Development Program which contains the com-
ments made by the City of Pasco and other jurisdictions and agencies
concerned with the inadequacies of the draft environmental impact
statement for said project, and
WHEREAS, upon the recommendation of city staff and after con-
sideration by the City Council, the City Council has determined that
the final environmental impact statement did not adequately address
the inadequacies pointed out by the comments to the draft environ-
mental impact statement; and
WHEREAS, it is the deep concern of the Pasco City Council that
the proposed Columbia Point Development Program may have severe ad-
verse environmental and economic impacts upon the City of Pasco and
that a full and adequate statement of those impacts as well as a full
compliance by the City of Richland with the requirements of the State
Environmental Protection Act and the regulations that implement it
are of the utmost importance and necessity, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO, WASHINGTON, DO RESOLVE
AS FOLLOWS:
1. The City Manager is directed to authorize the City Attorney
to commence litigation on behalf of the City of Pasco against the City
of Richland due to the inadequacies of its final environmental impact
statement for its Columbia Point Development Program; and
2 zin amount not to exceed Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00)
may be expended by the City Attorney for consultation with private
legal counsel of his choice and approved by the City Manager, for
the purposes of commencing and maintaining this l]tigation.
E. A.---Snid r, Mayor