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Council, Colton shall hold a public hearing before its City Council to review the Draft EIR. At this hearing, the Colton City Council shall review the Draft EIR and take public comment. Colton shall then make comments or recommendations to Riverside. Riverside will work cooperatively with Colton to address and resolve any such comments and recommendations prior to the preparation of the Final EIR. 1.2 The proposed project currently includes spreading basins and facilities for the diversion of water from the Santa Ana River to those basins. Colton has requested that the proposed project also include recreational features and be configured to accommodate local circulation requirements for South Colton and will provide to Riverside additional information regarding such features as it becomes available. Riverside agrees to consider and study the addition of these components into the proposed project. 1.3 Riverside agrees to fund the cost of Recharge Project environmental analysis, including any recreational elements associated with the improvements. 1.4 Riverside and Colton agree to jointly seek grant funding, from federal and/or state funds, for the Recharge Project on terms that are mutually acceptable. 2. Pellissier Ranch Specific Plan 2.1 Colton is currently in the process of adopting the Pellissier Ranch Specific Plan, which encompasses 1,448 acres of largely undeveloped property in Colton. Riverside currently owns approximately 227 acres within the Specific Plan area. The Specific Plan calls for a combination of open space, commercial, retail, residential and school uses. Colton will continue to fund all costs associated with developing and adopting such Specific Plan, including environmental review. 2.2 Riverside agrees to provide an interim sewer connection to accept wastewater delivered by Colton to the RWQCP for treatment and disposal in an amount not to exceed 1,000,000 gallons per day, with a peak flow discharge not to exceed 2.3 cubic feet per second, from the property within the southwest portion of the City of Colton. The parties agree to further negotiate on the terms of such acceptance, with the understanding that the fee that Riverside shall charge for such acceptance will include a 50% surcharge in addition to Riverside's normal charge for such acceptance of wastewater. Colton will not be charged capacity fees for this interim sewer connection. A draft agreement is attached as Exhibit A. The final agreement will be substantially the same as this draft agreement and Colton will comply with all of its terms and conditions. 2.3 Riverside, through its Department of Public Utilities, has reserved a 37 acre parcel within the specific plan area for utility purposes, either water, electric or both. Colton and Riverside will work cooperatively to identify an alternative location to address the electric utility requirements to minimize any negative impacts from the utility uses on adjacent private development. Colton and Riverside will work cooperatively to quantify the water utility requirements for land within the Specific Plan area and Colton will work to ensure that the Specific Plan accommodates those needs to the greatest extent possible.