Consider and take action on Resolution No. 18-137, issuing support of an application submitted by Freeport McMoRan Energy, LLC to the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality for a portion of property located at 4500 Old Industrial Port Road in Galveston, Texas. (Management Services)

The attorney for Freeport McMoRan Energy LLC contacted our city attorney and requested approval of a resolution accepting and allowing for Freeport McMoRan Energy to obtain a designation on its property for a MSD (Municipal Setting Designation) which limits the use of groundwater and prohibits the use of the designated groundwater from beneath the property as potable water and appropriately restricts other uses of and contact with that groundwater.  TCEQ requires any city with a groundwater well within five miles of the designation to provide support for the application.  The City of Galveston has approved an ordinance.  The City of Texas City does have a well at the tip of the dike that provides water for a cleaning table for fisherman.  Russell Plackemeier has requested the attorney for McMoRan Energy to be hear to answer questions concerning the contamination and the possible effects on the City of Texas City.