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Authorizing the Water Commissioner, on behalf of the City, to enter into an agreement between the City and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority ("PRA") for the PRA to act as the City's agent to include and incorporate Philadelphia Water Department-identified green stormwater infrastructure projects (the "Stormwater Infrastructure") in certain construction and improvement projects in and around the City on properties owned by the City (the "City Projects"), including those projects arising out of the City's "Rebuilding Community Infrastructure" or "Rebuild" Program, and on properties owned by the PRA ("PRA Projects") (the City Projects and PRA Projects, together, the "Construction Projects") from the design phase to construction completion in an efficient manner, under certain terms and conditions.
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WHEREAS, The PRA acts as agent for the City pursuant to a separate Agency Agreement in carrying out the City Projects and the City grants certain capital funding (the "City Funding") to the PRA in accordance with individual project requirements; and
WHEREAS, The PRA manages and oversees the City Projects and uses the City Funding to pay for the City Projects; and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to ? 6.1 of the Redevelopment Cooperation Law, Act of May 24, 1945, P.L. 982, ? 6.1; added by the Act of January 19, 1968, P.L. (1967) 987, ? 2; 35 P.S. ? 1746.1, the City may designate and appoint the PRA its agent to perform any specified activity that the City is authorized by law to perform, so long as such activity is in furtherance of the public purposes specified in the Urban Redevelopment Law (the "URL"); and
WHEREAS, The PRA and the City desire to enter into a Cooperation Agreement (the "Agreement") wherein the City will designate the PRA as the City's agent to include and incorporate the Stormwater Infrastructure in the Construction Projects from the design phase to construction completion in an efficient manner, and to perform other services requested by the City...
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