Report to Carson Reclamation Authority
Tuesday, May 01, 2018
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CONSIDER AMENDMENT NUMBER 6 TO A SPECIAL COUNSEL ENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT WITH GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP FOR LEGAL SERVICES RELATED TO PLACEMENT OF INSURANCE, DEVELOPMENT OF REGULATORY AGREEMENTS, AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS IN THE AMOUNT OF $392,290
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I. SUMMARY
The Authority contracted in May, 2016 with Greenberg Traurig, LLP to provide it and the Authority's legal counsel specific legal assistance in the procurement of a new Pollution Legal Liability Policy, and associated negotiations on the Environmental Protection Program Policy (the "EPP Policy") that Carson Marketplace has purchased from American International Special Lines Insurance Company ("Insurer" or "AIG"), and with Tetra Tech, the environmental contractor. The Contract was amended on October 4, 2016 to take the work up through the end of December, 2016, to complete the work on the AIG EPP, the DTSC Financial Assurance, and the work transitioning the Authority from the Tetra Tech contract into a new time and materials based contract with another vendor for the installation of the remedial systems under the RAP as well as the future OM&M of those systems. The First Amendment also finalized work on the Bridge PLL, helped secure the CPL replacement and began the larger Development PLL program, including working with Macerich and a prospective "Master Developer" on the balance of the site.
The Second Amendment took the contract to May 31, 2017 and included follow-on work on the financial assurance, negotiating the Master Horizontal Developer contract, structuring the insurance programs in cooperation with Macerich (OPPI wrap program), as part of the Macerich MOU, prevailing wage issues in the O&M contract, and other technical regulatory issues with DTSC.
The Third Amendment was to approve a Legal Project Management system to create the unified document portal for all of the developers and contractors containing regulat...
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