AN ORDINANCE relating to the sale of biomethane and related environmental attributes held by the county; authorizing an amendment to an agreement approved under Ordinance 18363 and amended under Ordinance 18439, for the sale and purchase of biomethane and environmental attributes associated with purified biomethane produced at the South wastewater treatment plant to IGI Resources, Inc.
I think we can do it in 4 minutes. Mr. REED 4 minutes. We went a little long on the charter review, and this is with respect to our environmental attributes legislation which the Council has adopted before. And I think we've got a fine tuning ordinance. Yeah, very much so. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be brief. So this is 2013 0230. You will recall that in 2016 you approved two pieces of legislation. First, that authorized the well that authorized the sale of bio gas from the South Premium Plant to II resources, and it also authorized the sale of environmental credits which are associated with the bio gas. These credits are created under the Federal Energy Independence Security Act. Under that act, EPA used to authorize credits to generators of alternative fuels that are used in the nation's fuel supply. So in this case, Air Resources, which is an affiliate of BP products, North America, would purchase the fuel and the environmental credits in 2016. The council actually approved two pieces of legislation. The first would have approved would approve the sale of the bio gas and the environmental credits. The second, because there was going to be a waiting period during which an EPA registration process to authorize county participation in this market would be required and the legislation allowed for storage of the bio gas during that registration period. So the EPA approval process did go forward. Approval came in August of 2017 and the sale to IEI went forward. The county realized actually $629,000 for the bio gas purchase. A portion of the sale realized $5.6 million up for of the environmental credits piece. So since that time, county attorneys and AGL attorneys have been communicating and I identified a number of changes needed to the legislation. They are those changes I'm going to jump in here are listed on pages 233 and 234 of the staff report. That's too numerous to list here. Morally, right? That's true. All right. But I will quickly note, Mr. Chair, that that is a striker. I, I have to apologize. I got that. The request for your sponsorship for the Stryker to you quite late. And so as I understand, you are considering not acting on the Stryker this morning. No, I. I'm happy to do that. I thought we had advanced this on the consent agenda when I spoke to you in the meeting here. So I thought it was too late to do the Stryker, but I'm happy if the peo and department, you know, it's fine to further refine it. Right. So we're short on time. Okay. Is the committee willing to advance this? Yeah, it can be subject to signature. Is the committee willing to advance this on a regular calendar, which I understand is basically a contract clean up? The legislation? That's correct. Councilmember Lambert. So, yeah. We can do without recommend. Yeah, I think so. I just wanted to make sure that that I'm reading this correctly, that this is an existing contract where they pick up our gas from rent and treatment plant. That's correct. It's gas and environmental credits that are created under VICE, which is the Federal Energy Security Act. So there's an I have no problems with the contract. There are some issues with that. And as far as the leachate and stuff that's coming and some of the gas issues that we can talk about that another time. So I'm okay with doing that, that recommendation. Does this change the fundamental economic return to the county on this contract there? Is there a major change in the economic benefit to King County? Because we spent a lot of time looking at this before. It does and it basically extends the process that's in place. I will will note that there had been contemplation of an actually increase in the environmental credits revenue that has been pulled back through the striking amendment force, which I could go into. But I don't want to unless you ask me to. Just for our department. Could I ask colleagues that we advance this without recommendation to full council on the regular schedule? And I understand that we've had a very limited time here, and people may want to look into it a little bit more. Councilmember Lambert, would you be willing to put them on force without recommendation? 2018 230. Thank you. I'd like to propose ordinance 2018 0230. Whether you pass out is Iraq without recommending that recommendation? And would you be willing to offer the striking amendment? I would be happy to. I'd like to move a Stryker amendment, number. One S-1, all in favor of S-1, making technical and legal changes, say I. Any oppose that's approved, ask the clerk to call the underlying ordinance roll call. This is without recommendation. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Banducci. Councilmember Dunn. Councilmember Gossett, Councilmember Qual. Councilmember Lambert. Councilmember McDermott, councilmember of the grove. Does not have the votes. I. Councilmember von Richter. Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the vote has five eyes. No nos. Right. We've given a a. We've advanced that legislation with that recommendation to the full council on the regular schedule. And Councilmember Lambert has a question. To I just want to check item number six, which was earlier today, the tentative Cedar Hill. Yes, that was on our consent calendar. Yes. Are you putting that on consent for the full council or is that going to go regular? We did advance that on consent. So if you wanted to pull it off at the full council to discuss that, you would want to do that. Well, maybe if they could talk to me beforehand, because the tonnage that's on here is considerably less than the tonnage that we have had. Okay. So I was just wondering why the numbers were different. We had Pat McLaughlin and a couple other folks from Solid Waste here for that item, but we did move it out early in the meeting. So I think, Erin, I'll get you answers.