TITLE
Recommendation to determine that the granting of Facility/Pipeline Permit Supplement No. S-6-08, under existing Facility/Pipeline Permit No. P-164-88 to ARCO Terminal Services Corporation, will not be contrary to the public interest; and authorize City Manager to issue said permit supplement in accordance with Section 15.44.060 of the Long Beach Municipal Code; and
Find that excavations are immediately required for the general health, safety, and welfare of the City and cannot be delayed, and that alternatives to excavating, such as alternative routing or construction methods such as boring or excavation of the parkway, are not possible; and approve a discretionary permit to excavate areas in certain City streets, which have been reconstructed within the previous 60 months, in accordance with Section 14.08.060 of the Long Beach Municipal Code. (Districts 1,7)
DISCUSSION
Arco Terminal Services Corporation (ARCO) has filed for Facility/Pipeline Permit Supplement No. S-6-08, under existing Facility/Pipeline Permit No. P-164-88. They are proposing to install two 12-inch pipelines. These pipelines would replace two existing pipelines, which will be decommissioned because of their age. These pipelines are crucial to ARCO's Carson Refinery operations and impact the refinery's ability to maintain current gasoline production rates. They serve to routinely transport dark oil (intermediate petroleum products) between the Long Beach harbor and the refinery. The routes of the two pipelines are shown on the attached vicinity map. If approved, they would be installed by trenching in certain streets that are under an excavation moratorium. Willow Street between Terminal Island Freeway and Santa Fe Avenue and Santa Fe Avenue between Pacific Coast Highway and Hill Street are both streets under excavation moratoriums. These moratoriums do not expire until May 2010 and October 2008, respectively.
Long Beach Municipal Code Section 14.08.060 requires that a permit for an ...
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