SUBJECT: An Ordinance to approve the First Amendment to an Untreated Water Supply Contract between the City of Houston and Enterprise Houston Ship Channel, L.P.
RECOMMENDATION: (Summary) Approve an ordinance authorizing the Mayor to execute a First Amendment to an Untreated Water Supply Contract between the City of Houston and Enterprise Houston Ship Channel, L.P.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION:
The City of Houston (“Houston”), City Council, approved an Untreated Treated Water Supply Contract (“Original Contract”) on February 28, 1996, Ordinance 96-210 with Oiltanking Houston, Inc. so that Houston could sell untreated water to Oiltanking Houston, Inc. Oiltanking Houston, Inc. converted to a limited partnership named Oiltanking Houston, L.P. (“Oiltanking”) on or about February 28, 2001. Oiltanking changed its name to Enterprise Houston Ship Channel, L.P. (“Enterprise”) on or about March 11, 2015.
Enterprise has requested to amend the Original Contract to increase the delivery of untreated water by Houston to Enterprise from 0.020 Million Gallons Per Day to 2.304 Million Gallons Per Day and replace Exhibit A of the Original Contract with the new Exhibit A that better illustrates the Point of Delivery and Point of Measurement.
Approval of the First Amendment is requested.