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34 TUESDAY DECEMBER 10, 1974 - authorized, the cost of which is estimated to be between $7,500.00 and $10,000.00; whereupon, Council unanimously authorized this additional study, within the estimated cost limits, to be financed from Revenue-Sharing funds available to the Commission. In connection with the anticipated filing of an application with the Federal Government and the State Water Control Board for funds to help finance the upgrading of the City's sewage treatment plant (water pollution control facility), Council unanimously adopted the following resolution in which the City of Martinsville stipulates that (1) it will adopt a sewer use ordinance, (2) it will develop and maintain an industrial cost recovery system, and (3) will develop and maintain a user charge system, all in accordance with applicable Federal requirements: WHEREAS, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) and Federal Water Pollution Control Acts Amendments, Public Law 92-500, were enacted by the Federal Government to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters; and, in order to implement this objective, the United States Congress established a regulatory and enforcement strategy and a system of subsidies to localities to permit localities to achieve the goals of the Act; and WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville, Virginia, as owner and operator of a Water Pollution Control facility, does desire to upgrade its existing primary treatment facility to meet the goals and objectives of P.L. 92-500; and WHEREAS, the Virginia State Water Control Board, as the appropriate agency, at its regular meeting held in April of 1974, placed the City of Martinsville on its project priority list for Federal and State monies in FY-1975; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, that a Step-3 (construction project) grant application be filed with said State Water Control Board, pursuant to the necessary requirements of the present Federal laws; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council that certain of these requirements are hereby stipulated, as follows: 1. The City of Martinsville will adopt a sewer use ordinance or will expand existing sewer use codes pursuant to the requirements of 40 CFR 35.927-4 or related sections.