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Grant of Temporary Construction Easement and Permanent Utility Easement for the DOE/NNSA MSTA Building Fiber Conduit Project.
Recommended Action
I move that Council approve a grant of Temporary Construction Easement and Permanent Utility Easement for the DOE/NNSA MSTA Building Fiber Conduit Project.
County Manager's Recommendation
The County Manager recommends that Council approve the motion as presented.
Body
The U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA), has requested that the County provide an easement to NNSA for the installation of one (1) underground fiber telecommunication conduit across County-owned lands and access to the County-owned Redi-Net pull-box to allow interconnection of Redi-Net fiber to the NNSA's MSTS Building. As provided in the attached Grant of Temporary Construction Easement and Permanent Utility Easement, such authorization includes the installation of specified underground telecommunication equipment, connectors, parts, and related appurtenances.
Attachment B to the Grant of Temporary Construction Easement and Permanent Utility Easement is the legal description of the proposed easement area, however as provided in the Grant of Temporary Construction Easement and Permanent Utility Easement, an amended legal description of the final lay of the conduit will be filed by NNSA within 30 days from the date of completion of the project.
At the request of County staff, NNSA provided the following project summary which is the basis for the requested easements:
Project Plan for Installation of LANL fiber optic cable to MSTS building
LANL has been tasked by NNSA to upgrade security monitor systems throughout the Laboratory. One of these systems is at the MSTS (formerly EG&G, NSTec) facility on NM HW502 adjacent to the Los Alamos County Pajarito Cliffs facility. In order to upgrade this system fiber optic circuits to the Laboratory’s central alarm station need to be installed. LANL has fiber near th...
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