HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION - 25-74 - 3/26/1974 - METRO SANITARY DIST OF GREATER CHGORESOLUTION NO. 25-74
SUPPORTING THE EXISTING REVENUE PRODUCING
SYSTEM PRESENTLY EXERCISED BY THE METROPOLI-
TAN SANITARY DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
WHEREAS, the Village of Elk Grove Village is within the
jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago,
and
WHEREAS, the Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 has been
Interpreted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to
exclude the use of advalorem taxes as not constituting a proportionate
means of sharing the costs of waste water treatment, and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago
uses a system of advalorem taxes and industrial surcharge for operating
revenues which the Village of Elk Grove Village considers to be fair
and equitable, and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the President and Board of
Trustees of the Village of Elk Grove Village, Cook and DuPage Counties,
Illinois that any revenue producing system that accomplishes an
equitable distribution of costs between industrial and domestic classes
of users for the maintenance and operation of sewage treatment facilities,
on a cost effective basis as determined by the funded agency, should be
deemed to meet the requirements of the federal Water Pollution Control
Act Amendments of 1972 and the rules and regulations implementing the
Act.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the President and Board of Trustees
of the Village of Elk Grove Village, Cook and DuPage Counties, that
certified copies of this Resolution be distributed to United States
Senators Charles H. Percy, Adlai E. Stevenson III, and Edmund Muskie;
and United States Representatives Philip M. Crane and John Blatnik;
and Russell E. Train, Director, Environmental Protection Agency.
RESOLUTION NO. 25-74
Attest:
PASSED this
26th
day
of
March ,
1974,
APPROVED this
26th
day
of
March ,
1974,
Vi11ag Clerk
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