(a) For townhouse/condominium associations or housing cooperatives, those where units are individually owned, the applicant may, as an alternative to the procedures described above, request that WSSC perform an evaluation of the on-site system. However, before WSSC will begin such an evaluation the applicant must pay a nonrefundable fee to WSSC to cover its costs to abandon the existing master meter and vault. The applicant must also formally agree to reimburse WSSC for its system evaluation costs (direct and indirect).

(b) Following WSSC’s system evaluation, WSSC will inform the applicant of the results of the evaluation of the on-site system and provide an estimate of the required system upgrade costs. If the applicant decides to withdraw its takeover request the applicant will be required to reimburse WSSC for its system evaluation cost (direct and indirect) minus the previously paid nonrefundable meter abandonment fee.

(c) If the applicant reaffirms its takeover request, it will concurrently be required to reimburse WSSC for its system evaluation costs, pay WSSC for its estimated system rehabilitation costs and also agree to pay any additional actual rehabilitation costs, should such costs exceed estimated costs. Alternatively, the residential applicant could execute a legal agreement signifying the consent of, and binding, all property owners, including all individual condominium owners and shareholders of housing cooperatives (and other entities, if required by law), to pay a special assessment which would reimburse WSSC for its system evaluation and rehabilitation costs (direct and indirect) and to pay off or redeem any existing front foot benefit assessment on any of the same properties. Such a special assessment would spread out payment of all WSSC costs over the life of that year’s general construction bond. The assessed footage will be the same for each property unit and will equal that required to insure that the total assessment revenue received from all property owners will equal the project’s total debt service. The debt service will in turn be based on WSSC’s actual costs (direct and indirect) to evaluate and rehabilitate the on-site system.

(d) Following the applicant’s payment of or agreement to pay WSSC for its system evaluation and rehabilitation costs, WSSC will begin lot design/redesign work and proceed to bid the project. Concurrently the applicant will employ a licensed plumbing contractor to secure a plumbing permit from WSSC to install a meter (capable of being read remotely from the exterior of the unit) and to install all necessary individual cut-off valves, curb boxes and pressure reducing valves or booster pumps. (PD 98-01 § X)