Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

The mayor of the city of Quincy, acting for and on behalf of the city, shall, notwithstanding any general or special law, grant permanent subsurface sewer tunnel easements through certain parcels of land in the city and acquired by the city for open space uses and for park and playground purposes, to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, for nominal consideration of $1 for the purposes of installing, maintaining and operating a subsurface sewer pipeline, together with any necessary structures, facilities and appurtenances, including without limitation fiber optic cabling, as may be needed, in connection with the so-called Braintree-Weymouth Tunnel, which when completed, will provide improved sewer service to meet the needs of the metropolitan Boston area. The first easement is shown as Easement No. E-32, on a plan entitled "Permanent Subsurface Tunnel Easement Plan and Profile Quincy, Weymouth, Norfolk County", prepared for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority by Howe Surveying Associates, Inc., dated August 10, 1998 (the "Plan"). The second easement is shown as Easement No. E-23 on the above described plan.