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22J TUESDAY JANUARY 22, 1974 both County and City, who had been so deeply involved in the lengthy and complicated negotiations, after which the meeting was adjourned at 9:00 P. M. THIS CONTRACT, made and entered into this the 22nd day of January, Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Four, by and between the CITY OF MARTINSVILLE, party of the first part and hereinafter referred to as the "City"; and the HENRY COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY, party of the second part, and hereinafter referred to as the "Authority"; (both parties being political subdivisions of the Commonwealth of Virginia); WIT N E SSE T H: WHEREAS, the City owns and operates within and without the City of Martinsville a sewage treatment plant facility with a system of interceptors leading therefrom to portions of the City's corporate limits and, at places, to points beyond said corporate limits, which said plant and system is capable of treating wastes which otherwise and at times heretofore have been discharged into the waters of Smith River and its tributaries; and WHEREAS, the City is agreeable that its said treatment plant and system of interceptors serve as a regional facility and is willing to obligate itself by equitable contract, entered into with the Authority to accept, transport and treat certain of the sewage and wastes originating in areas outside said City's corporate limits; and WHEREAS, while the capacity of the City's sewer system and its sewage treatment plant were respectively designed and constructed, at the City's expense, to transport and to treat all normal wastes anticipated to originate, for a long period of years, not only in the combined areas from which the City is presently receiving and treating such wastes, but, also, in other areas in the vicinity of the City, it may become necessary from time to time, to enlarge or extend said facilities or to upgrade, change or improve upon or increase the degree or method of treatment of said wastes; and WHEREAS, the Authority desires that the City receive the normal wastes originating within the AREA hereinafter defined and transport the same to, and treat such wastes at, its sewage treatment plant, to the end that no untreated or improperly treated wastes from said AREA be discharged into the streams, or elsewhere within said AREA; and WHEREAS, City Council, during a special called meeting held October 30, 1973, authorized the entering into a contractual agreement with the Henry County, Virginia, Public Service Authority setting forth conditions under which the City would receive and treat sewage from the AREA; and WHEREAS, a policy of the Virginia State Water Control Board requires that satisfactory interjurisdictional agreements be entered into by the various political subdivisions involved in regional sewerage system improvements in order to receive State and Federal funds for such facilities; and WHEREAS, the parties to this contract are interested in the orderly development of property situated within the AREA;