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HomeMy WebLinkAbout79-37 - Waste Treatment Management PlanRESOLUTION NO. 79-37 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, COMMITTING TO THE IMPLE- MENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THOSE ELEMENTS OF THE SOUTH COAST AREA WIDE WASTE TREATMENT MANAGE- MENT PLAN APPROPRIATE TO ITS JURISDICTION. WHEREAS, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 USC 1251, et seq. as amended, seeks to develop a cooperative Federal, State, Regional and Local Government Program to prevent and control sources of pollution to ground and surface waters in order to restore and maintain the chemi- cal, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 208 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, as amended, the Southern California Association of Governments, herein referred to as SCAG, has prepared an Area Wide Waste Treatment Management Plan for the South Coast Area with the assistance of the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino, the City of Los Angeles, the Newport -Irvine Waste Management Planning Agency, the Santa Ana Water Project Authority, and the Ventura Regional County Sanitation District; and WHEREAS, the Area Wide Waste Treatment Management Plan for the South Coast Area will be adopted by SCAG on April 5, 1979, and forwarded to the State Water Resources Control Board for certification and there- after will be forwarded to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency in compliance with Section 208 (b) (3), of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, as amended; and WHEREAS, the Area Wide Waste Treatment Management Plan for the South Coast Area proposes management agencies to be responsible for Plan implementation and pursuant to publish United States Environmental Protection Agency guidelines, (42 Federal Register 44777 1977) must indicate each management agency's willingness to proceed to carry out its responsibilities as identified in the Plan; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa is assigned certain responsibilities in the Area Wide Waste Treatment Management Plan for the South Coast Area, approved by the SCAG Executive Committee on February 1, 1977; NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that it is the intent of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, to procded with implementation of its responsibilities as set forth in the 208 Area Wide Waste Treatment Management Plan as approved by SCAG, said responsibilities specifically described and amended as follows: 1. Maintain existing street sweeping programs (prior to Proposi- tion 13) with consideration given to increasing their effec- tiveness in reducing waste loads to receiving waters to the extent financially feasible; 2. Maintain current litter control programs to the extent fin- ancially feasible; 3. Maintain current catch basin and storm drain cleaning programs with consideration given to increasing program effectiveness to the extent financially feasible; 4. By October, 1979, develop, adopt, and enforce a grading and erosion control ordinance. This ordinance may include ele- ments included in the SCAG Model Grading Ordinance as proposed in the 208 Area Wide Waste Treatment Management Plan. Imple- mentation of the Ordinance shall be on a project to project basis taking into consideration the required Environment Impact Report and staff recommendations; 5. Require corrective maintenance activities for existing road- ways, including utility Rights of Way and other access roads where erosion controls are proven necessary and financially feasible; 6. Within eight years after specific 208 guidelines are estab- lished, develop and implement an optimum mix of street sweep- ing equipment to the extent financially feasible; 7. By April, 1979, modify street sweeping practices to improve the quality of urban run-off; 8. Improve streets with curbs and gutters where needed to facil- itate removal of significant street pollutants as a condition of development. BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be forwarded to the SCAG Executive Committee and to the Board of Directors of the Newport -Irvine Waste Managment Treatment Agency. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 19th day of March, 1979. z( W// Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa ATTEST: City Clerk of the City of Costa sa STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS CITY OF COSTA MESA ) I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 79-37 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 19th day of March, 1979. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the City of Costa Mesa this 20th day of March, 1979. ) (? City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk,# the City Council of the City of Cosp Mesa