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INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT This Interagency Agreement ("Agreement"), is entered into between the City of Santa Ana ("CITY"), Orange County Water District ("OCWD") and Moulton Niguel Water District ("MNWD"), collectively herein referred to as the PARTIES. I. PURPOSE The purpose of this Agreement is to work collaboratively to further evaluate a potential emergency interconnection ("INTERCONNECTION") between the CITY water distribution system and the East Orange County Feeder #2 ("EOCF#211). The proposed INTERCONNECTION would: a. Be located at the CITY East Station site on E. Santa Fe St., as identified in the Evaluation of Groundwater Conveyance Options, Final Draft Preliminary Report (City of Santa Ana Only), prepared by Tetra Tech, dated September 2020 (exhibit 1) and; b. Only be utilized when the EOCF#2 was not conveying treated water from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California ("MWD") Diemer Filtration Plant due to a qualifying emergency outage; The goal of this Agreement is to evaluate the feasibility for the INTERCONNECTION by completing a preliminary design study and environmental analysis that would identify the necessary infrastructure and any necessary environmental mitigations, and refine the potential estimated construction cost for a new emergency INTERCONNECTION. Further, this Agreement authorizes the analysis of work necessary to address the institutional arrangements required to potentially deliver water from the Orange County groundwater basin into theEOCF#2 under qualifying emergency conditions. If warranted, a subsequent agreement would be developed to define the terms and conditions for constructing and operating the potential INTERCONNECTION during qualifying emergencies. To that end, this Agreement serves to establish a common understanding of the guiding principles for the terms and conditions of any future agreement. II. GUIDING PRINCIPLES The following guiding principles will be adhered to by all PARTIES as fundamental to this Agreement and will be adhered to in completing any work to develop the INTERCONNECTION and will be foundational to the terms and conditions of any future service agreement: a. The INTERCONNECTION would be used during qualifying emergency conditions when the EOCF#2 is not delivering water from the Diemer Filtration Plant. A qualifying emergency condition for the purposes of this Agreement is defined as significant interruption of MWD's ability to provide water to MNWD due to failure of infrastructure as identified in the Evaluation of Groundwater Conveyance Options, Final Draft Preliminary Report (City of Santa Ana Only), prepared by Tetra Tech, dated September2020 (exhibit 1). A drought emergency declared by the Governor of Page 1 of 7 City Council 30 — 5 5/17/2022 5169249.1 --N1716.0