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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) D13-014 with the Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition (SMC), for a four-year term at a total anticipated cost of $60,000, to develop scientific and technical tools for stormwater implementation, assessment, and monitoring, requiring further development and/or upgrade for use in complying with United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Requirements. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Staff is requesting City Council authorization to execute a new Memorandum of Agreement with the Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition. The new agreement, Agreement D13-014, is requested for the purpose of continuing the implementation of the cooperative Stormwater Research Needs Program (SRNP) to develop scientific and technical tools for stormwater implementation, assessment, and monitoring, requiring further development and/or upgrade to support the implementation of the new NPDES Permits. The objective of the agreement will be to identify data gaps that inhibit effective stormwater management and/or regulation, and then prescribe specific studies to address the gaps. Each study is intended to result in specific actions or recommendations that benefit water quality and comply with mandatory requirements of the US EPA TMDLs and current implementation of the NPDES Permits. The studies will aid the City in complying with our own NPDES permit. The agreement will be for a term four years.
Stormwater regulators and municipal stormwater management agencies throughout Southern California have developed a collaborative working relationship. The goal of this relationship has generally been to develop the technical information necessary to better understand stormwater mechanisms and impacts, and ultimately, to develop the tools that will effectively and efficiently improve ...
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