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t 3 the principles of the WTMP was accomplished by insuring that the cost of County intervention into a waste treatment problem involving an on-site treatment process more complex than that of single family conventional septic tank systems is paid by the individual(s) directly served by that intervention. Specifically, the contracts which bound OWASA, the Homeowners Association and the County together allowed, provided for or required: 1) the extension of municipal sewer service as necessary to serve approved lots in the Piney Mountain subdivision and only those lots; 2) the assumption by the Homeowners Association of all expenses and the deposit with the County of funds for all estimated expenses for pump station/force main and collection system construction, including the legal/ administrative expenses of OWASA and the County; 3) the initial assumption of ownership of the PUMP station/force main by the County and the transfer of that ownership to OWASA as soon as practicable under the terms of the state grant; 4) the retention of STEP system(s) ownership by the individual homeowners with the requirements that: a) each STEP be evaluated by an engineer who would provide a certified report of needed replacement or repairs and associated costs; b) the Homeowners Association, on behalf of each homeowner served by a STEP system, be responsible for the repair or replacement of each STEP system; and c) funds amounting to 110 % of estimated total STEP systems repair costs be placed on deposit, by the Homeowners Association, with the County until all repairs are completed; and 5) the provision by OWASA - at the expense of the Homeowners Association- of all necessary technical and administrative services necessary to bid, construct, operate, maintain and administer the pump station/force main and collection systems. The three contracts were approved in concept by the BOCC on 20 September 1994 and executed by the County, OWASA and the Homeowners Association on 12 October 1994. Although the Piney Mountain Homeowners Association has previously agreed to pay and remains contractually liable for payment of County and OWASA legal/administrative costs associated with the wastewater project, it has petitioned the County and OWASA for remission of those costs. The BOCC was petitioned at its 4 August 1995 meeting. A copy of the petition, which includes a Homeowners Association accounting of total wastewater treatment system-associated income to and expenditure by the Piney Mountain Homeowners Association, is attached. Staff has made no attempt to confirm the Association' s accounting for any income or expense other than the income and expense which has passed through the County' s Piney Mountain project account. RECOMMENDATION: As the Board decides