(a) A request for WSSC takeover must be submitted in writing by the owner or the owner’s designated representative to the WSSC’s Civil Engineering Support Section. The requestor shall outline why the WSSC should assume full or partial maintenance responsibility. The request shall be accompanied by descriptive material such as:

(b) After performing a preliminary evaluation of the system, in accordance with WSSC 13.05.040, Acquisition criteria, an engineering feasibility report will be prepared by WSSC’s Civil Engineering Support Section. The report will be circulated to several staff offices and the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for conceptual approval/disapproval. Subsequently, the applicant will be advised of the staff’s initial evaluation of the request. If the request is conceptually approved, the applicant will be provided a preliminary list of conditions under which the WSSC might assume responsibility for the system. The applicant will be asked to reaffirm the request for takeover, after having considered WSSC’s takeover conditions.

(c) Upon receipt of the applicant’s reaffirmation letter, a consolidated package, along with a staff engineering report, will be forwarded for final conditional approval/disapproval decision. The staff’s engineering report shall highlight the advantages and disadvantages of system acquisition by WSSC. Subsequently the applicant will be notified whether the request has been approved or disapproved. If approved, the applicant will be requested to employ a private engineer at the applicant’s sole expense to perform an evaluation of the system as described in WSSC 13.05.070 and to subsequently rehabilitate the system; that is, eliminate all deficiencies identified by the applicant’s system evaluation as well as by WSSC’s evaluation of the same system. (See WSSC 13.05.080.) The applicant will also be required to reimburse WSSC for all costs (direct and indirect) incurred by WSSC in its evaluation of the system, both before and after applicant rehabilitation of the system.

(d) If an applicant represents a residential condominium, homeowners’ association or a housing cooperative whose units are individually owned, the applicant may alternatively employ WSSC to evaluate and upgrade the system. (See WSSC 13.05.100.) (Amended during 2019 codification; PD 98-01 § VI)