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JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT <br /> FOR <br /> THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE TWIN CITIES ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT <br /> THIS JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT (the "Joint Agreement" or the "JPA") is made <br /> and entered into as of the day of , 2012, by and between the City of <br /> Arden Hills, a Minnesota municipal corporation (the "City") and the County of Ramsey, a <br /> political subdivision under the laws of Minnesota(the"County"). <br /> RECITALS <br /> A. The County of Ramsey(the "County") is the Purchaser under that certain Offer to <br /> Purchase, as Amended (the "OTP"), by and between the County and the United States of <br /> America, by the General Services Administration, as Seller ("GSA"), for a portion of the real <br /> property located in the City of Arden Hills (the "City") commonly referred to as the Twin Cities <br /> Army Ammunition Plant ("TCAAP"). (The real property which is the subject of the OTP <br /> contains approximately 48437 acres of land and is referred to in this Joint Agreement as the <br /> "TCAAP Site"). The purpose of County for purchasing the TCAAP Site is to facilitate the clean <br /> up of existing environmental contamination, elimination of blight and the redevelopment of the <br /> TCAAP Site for new development pursuant to the TCAAP Master Plan, as defined below. <br /> B. Portions of the TCAAP Site contain environmental contamination as more fully <br /> described in existing environmental reports (the "Contamination"). The OTP provides for <br /> remediation of the Contamination pursuant to a lease from GSA to County (the "Lease"l. At the <br /> closing of the sale and purchase as provided in the OTP, GSA will convey to County ownership <br /> of fee title to the land, and related improvements, of the TCAAP Site that is not contaminated <br /> (the "Initial Conveyance"), and will lease to County the contaminated portions of the TCAAP <br /> Site (the "Lease Site"). Pursuant to the Lease, County will undertake and complete within the <br /> time period as agreed to by and between County and GSA, which is currently contemplated to be <br /> at least three years, the remediation of the Contamination to a level sufficient to permit <br /> redevelopment on the Lease Site (the "County Remediation" and "Developer Remediation" as <br /> defined hereafter). Conveyance of ownership of good and marketable fee simple title to the <br /> entire TCAAP Site to County will take place when the County Remediation is finished (the <br /> "Final Conveyance"). <br /> C. The TCAAP Site also contains buildings and other improvements that are no <br /> longer useable, are blighting influences, and need to be removed for the TCAAP Site to be fully <br /> redeveloped (the"County Site Clearance" and "Developer Site Clearance" as defined herein). <br /> D. The "New Development" (as defined ''e! described in these Recitals and <br /> defined in Section 1.1 below) requires signif cant investment by County to purchase the TCAAP <br /> Site and complete the County Remediation and County Site Clearance,sifie investment by <br /> City to work with County to develop and implement the redevelopment plans to guide the New <br /> Development, and significant investment in public infrastructure by City and County pursuant to <br /> the TCAAP Master Plan (as defined below). <br /> 1 <br />