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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to enter into a five-year cooperative agreement (D06-049) with multiple agencies for participation in the Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition and execute any subsequent amendments to the agreement. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
In February 2001, the City of Long Beach entered into Agreement D99-072 with several agencies (County of Orange, County of Los Angeles, County of San Diego, Ventura County Flood Control District, Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, San Bernardino County Flood Control District, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, and Southern California Coastal Waters Research Project) to establish a Southern California stormwater research/monitoring program.
Under this initial agreement, the group identified and prioritized research needs and undertook some initial cooperative projects. However, Agreement D99-072 expired after five years and many of the scientific and technical tools for stormwater program implementation, assessment and monitoring have not been fully developed. The agencies would like to continue the program started under Agreement D99-072 for an additional five-year period, commencing with execution by the last signatory, and add the City of Los Angeles, the State Water Board and the California Department of Transportation to the list of participants.
The key focus of the program is to develop scientific and technical tools for stormwater program implementation, assessment and monitoring that are currently not fully developed and, as a result, impede effective stormwater management. Separate, subsequent research implementation agreements will be entered into to fund recommended cooperative research/monitoring projects.
Part 3, Section II, B of the City of Long Beach Municipal Storm Water Permit (Order No 99-060) requires regional participation in storm water studies and monitoring programs, specifically with some of the agencies included ...
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