HomeMy WebLinkAbout79-25 (Denied) RESOLUTION NO. 79-25 (Denied)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, COMMITTING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION AND
ENFORCEMENT OF THOSE ELEMENTS OF THE SOUTH COAST AREAWIDE
WASTE TREATMENT MANAGEMENT PLaiN APPROPRIATE TO ITS JURIS-
DICTION
WHEREAS the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.
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 chemical, 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 Areawide 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 Watershed Project Authority and the Ventura Regional
County Sanitation District; and
WHEREAS the Areawide 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 thereafter
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 Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan for the
South Coast Area proposes management agencies to be responsible for plan
implementation and pursuant to published United States Environmental
Protection Agency guidelines (42 Fed. Reg. 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 of Rancho Cucamonga is assigned certain
responsibilities in the Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan for the
South Coast Area, approved by the SCAG Executive Committee on February
1, 1979;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that it is the intent of the City
Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga:
SECTION 1:
a. Maintain existing street sweeping programs (prior to
Proposition 13) with consideration given to increasing
their effectiveness in reducing wasteloads to receiving
waters, to the extent financially feasible.
b. Maintain current litter control porgrams, to the extent
financially feasible.
c. Maintain current catchbasin and storm drain cleaning
programs with consideration given to increasing program
effectiveness, to the extent financially feasible.
do Emphasize reduction of runoff volume and peak flow rates
as mitigation measures in environmental impact reports
(EIRs) and in conditions for approval for new developments.
SECTION 2:
To forward copies of this resolution to the Southern California
Association of Governments.
DENIED this 20th day of June, 1979.
AYES: Mikels
NOES: Bridge, Palombo, Schlosser, Frost
ABSENT: None
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk