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Council authorizes manager to finalize Western Harbor consent decree language and approve cost‑sharing agreement for harbor cleanup
Summary
After staff and the city attorney briefed council, Port Angeles authorized the city manager to accept non‑substantive Ecology changes to a draft consent decree, to file a final consent decree in substantially the same form, and to execute a provisional cost‑sharing agreement allocating cleanup costs among potentially liable parties.
Port Angeles City Council voted to authorize the city manager to approve non‑substantive Department of Ecology changes to a draft consent decree governing cleanup work at the Western Harbor and to execute a provisional cost‑sharing and cooperation agreement that obligates potentially liable parties (PLPs) to share cleanup costs while an equitable allocation process is completed.
Why it matters: the consent decree and cost‑sharing agreement establish the framework, schedule and funding mechanism for remedial design, cleanup work and a post‑remediation monitoring period that together the presenters estimated could span roughly two decades…
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