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Seismic Vulnerability Study · More than 25 other grants, covering fire stations, police stations, emergency operations centers; city halls; local-agency-owned highway bridges; libraries; and other public facilities. In order for the city of Redwood City to be eligible to obtain such monies, G&E can prepare all required plans and grant efforts. In our cost proposal, we include the costs to initiate such efforts, recognizing that 75% of the total costs are also eligible for reimbursement from FEMA. Depending on the size of FEMA funding approved by Congress (yearly) and other requests for funding from other utilities / agencies, there can be no guarantee of receipt ofFEMA money to Redwood City. However, as FEMA is the de-facto insurer of Redwood City's water system, it is incumbent on Redwood City to be sure it is eligible to obtain such money, and to do so requires careful adherence to FEMA's requirements. In Task 4A, G&E will assist Redwood City in preparing a multi-hazard mitigation plan. According to Redwood City, a plan is currently being developed by the redwood City Fire Department. G&E will review the draft of this plan, and suggest / provide supplemental information so that the plan includes the water department, with regards to earthquake or other significant hazard. Given the schedule, we will use the available information about Redwood City's water system, as developed through 2002. In Task 4B, we will develop a pre-disaster mitigation grant for seismic upgrade of selected parts of the Redwood City water system. This is limited to $4,000,000, with 75% cost share (up to $3,000,000) by FEMA. This work will be done in conjunction with the FEMA schedule for 2011, and will reflect the findings from Tasks 1,2 and 3. Task 5 Pipe Replacement Program (Leaks) At the meeting with Redwood City, G&E and West Yost held on September 8, 2009, it was identified that Redwood City would like help with the technical basis to replace pipelines due to ongoing leaks. Since this meeting, G&E has internally discussed how to do this, in a manner that will meet Redwood City's needs, as well as be technically sound. Our recommended approach is as follows. 5.1. We will collect and review the available leak history from Redwood City. This leak history covers about 7 years (2002 to 2009) period). 5 .2. We will collect and assess available information from other water agencies in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. This may include EBMUD and ACWD. G&E has detailed GIS-based databases of these water systems. These water systems have many years of leak data available for their pipelines. 5.3 . We will assess the leak histories and case histories to examine the following concern: will the leak rate increase as the pipes become older? For example, will the leak rate of October 9, 2009 Page 7