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Harvard faces yet another lawsuit in connection with its $110-million Medical Area power plant project--this one involving an alleged violation of a state environmental agency ruling...
...response to another legal challenge to the power plant, lawyers for the University yesterday filed a motion in Suffolk Superior Court to dismiss a complaint from the Selectmen of Brookline, who say Harvard should have obtained a "certificate of need" before beginning the project...
Massachusetts law requires medical institutions to demonstrate their need for any new equipment or facility costing more than $100,000. Lashman said Harvard did not try to obtain a certificate of need for the power plant because the state Department of Public Health ruled in August 1975 that the University did not need...
...Court will probably render a decision before the end of May on a third lawsuit--an appeal by the Boston Edison Company claiming the Boston Redevelopment Authority followed improper procedure in allowing Harvard to make engineering, design and cost changes, and to eliminate trash incineration facilities in the power plant plans in October...
Despite these ongoing legal battles, Harvard has already spent $42 million on the plant--about one-third its total estimated cost. The exterior structure is now complete, and the facility may be providing steam and chilled water to the Medical School, several Harvard teaching hospitals and other institutions in the Medical Area by the summer...