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WHEREAS, by a settlement agreement dated November 8, 1972, and exhibits thereto the boundaries of the two, aforementioned service areas have been more particularly delineated and the eventual phase-out of the Sunol facility is dependent upon expansion of the V.C.S.D, sewage treatment plant; and WHEREAS, the establishment of new discharge standards pursuant to the Clean Water Act of 1970 and the Porter-Cologne Act of 1970, as well as action by the Environmental Protection Agency to protect air quality in the Livermore-Amador Valley, has resulted in a delay in implementing the expansion of the V.C.S.D. facility to accommodate the Sunol plant; and WHEREAS, the Regional Water Quality Control Board has imposed cease and desist orders against the Sunol STP, together with connections bans, especially due to odors which have emanated from the plant; and WHEREAS; in order to alleviate the causes for imposition of the cease and desist orders, the City Council authorized and improvements have been made to the plant in excess of $500,000; and WHEREAS, the improvements referred to above, resulted in a partial lifting of the connections ban on March 18, 1975, by the Regional Water Quality Control Board as to 250 single family dwelling unit equivalent sewer connections; and WHEREAS, the City informed the Regional Board in February of this year it wished to obtain additional connections to the Sunol STP; and WHEREAS, the Regional Board's Executive Director prepared a staff report and tentative order for the Regional Board meeting of March 16, 1976, wherein the Executive Director noted that "The City of Pleasanton has implemented all of the reason- able odor control measures that have been identified" and recommended that "the restriction on additional connections to the City's sewer system should be removed if the March -2-