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PROPOSED LICENSE REQUEST
Request: Requesting authorization for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County ("the Preserves"), as Licensor to grant a License to the Village of Oak Lawn and other Municipal Customers of the Oak Lawn Regional Water System, ("the Grantees"), to locate, operate and maintain a water transmission main in the Tinley Creek Preserves. The Preserves and Grantees have come to a mutual understanding on several key material terms and routes to be included within the License, as indicated in the accompanying Memorandum of Understanding (the "MOU") and exhibits from the Village of Oak Lawn dated August 28, 2015. Permission is now sought, upon Grantees satisfactory compliance with the MOU and any additional due diligence or negotiation of any relevant provisions, as determined by the Preserves' legal department, to enter into and execute the License. The request is for approximately 19,984 linear feet of new water main ranging in size from 24-inch diameter to 60-inch diameter to serve 12 southwest suburban communities. The communities are currently served by a single 40 year old 48-inch transmission main. The addition of a new 60-inch water transmission line will provide a looped system to increase capacity and provide redundancy in the event of a failure.
Impacts: The new pipeline will extend through the Forest Preserves for approximately 3.8 miles and require a license area of almost 7 acres, but will be routed primarily within an existing disturbed corridor occupied by ComEd transmission lines. Approximately 1 mile of paved trail will be directly impacted by construction.
Fees and Benefits: In addition to the license fee, the Grantees will pay an impact permit fee for temporary construction use of 27 acres, based on a daily proration of the license fee. Also, the Grantee will reroute approximately 1.2 miles of trail, rebuild the directly impacted trail segments, and repave an additional 2 miles of adjacent trail in order to ...
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