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Strategy
• 1b. Identify and Eliminate Barriers to Storm Water Capture and Use
• 3a. Develop Guidance for Alternative
• 3b. Develop Watershed-Based Compliance and Management Guidelines and Tools
• 4a. Implement Senate Bill 985 - Incorporate Principles of Storm Water Resource Plan Guidelines into Storm Water Programs
• 4b. Eliminate Barriers to Funding Storm Water Programs and Identify Funding for Storm Water Capture and Use Projects
• 5a. Create Storm Water Program Data and Information "Open Data"
• 6a. Establish Statewide Framework for Urban Pesticide Reduction
• 6b. Identify Opportunities for Source Control and Pollution Prevention
• Project 1d: Develop and Establish a Monetary Value of Storm Water
• Project 2a: Encourage Stakeholder Collaboration to Promote Storm Water as a Resource
• Project 3c: Assess Municipal Storm Water Program Monitoring and Effectiveness
• Project 3d: Establish Statewide Regulatory Framework for Municipal Storm Water Programs
• Project 3f: Develop Guidance for Implementation of Post-Construction Requirements to Improve Watershed Health
• Project 4c: Identify Municipal Storm Water Permit Compliance Cost
• Project 5b: Evaluate and Increase Storm Water Permit Compliance
• Project 5d: Align Water Quality Statewide Planning Efforts with Storm Water Program Implementation - Pilot Project Using the Biological Integrity Plan
• Project 6c: Evaluate and Implement Trash Control
• Project 3g: Establish Guidance for Storm Water Program Asset Management Planning and Cost Estimation
• Project 4d: Identify Industrial and Construction Storm Water Permit Compliance Cost
• Project 5c: Establish Sector-Specific Technology-Based Numeric Effluent Limitations for Industrial and Construction Storm Water Permits
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Project 5b: Evaluate and Increase Storm Water Permit Compliance
Priority:
Medium
Assessment:
Important, achievable with significant barriers
None
Project Objective:Develop recommended focus areas for existing storm water permit compliance evaluation, and identify potential additional resources for conducting focused program audits and compliance inspections to deter noncompliance (through increased Water Board staff field presence). Collaborate with other state and local agencies on existing compliance effort.
Scope:Assist Water Board Storm Water Program staff by focusing compliance evaluations on permit requirements that provide the most effective water quality outcomes. The project includes: (1) research to identify and prioritize elements of the program’s permits that require additional resources to determine effective compliance strategies; (2) revisions of the Administrative Procedures Manuals to outline standard methods used by the program for audit, inspection and compliance determination procedures; and (3) collaboration within the agency and with other agencies on increasing the efficiency of the program’s inspections, audits and compliance determinations. The project includes assisting the program with outreach to storm water permittees to distribute compliance evaluation results. This compliance assistance is proposed in addition to existing compliance responsibilities, and will provide additional resources for evaluating the overall effectiveness of the Storm Water Program.
Background:
Significant funds are spent annually on storm water audits, inspections and compliance evaluations; however, focused compliance evaluations on key permit requirements related to effective water quality outcomes need to be identified, and will support implementing requirements developed in Storm Water Program permits. Many agencies have a program for audits, inspections, and compliance evaluations that directly overlaps with elements within the Storm Water Program’s compliance determinations. This project will provide resources for conducting effective collaboration with other agencies and will identify focused compliance issues that exist across multiple programs statewide. Developing and supporting these partnerships is a crucial element for expanding Storm Water Program staff knowledge on the breadth of environmental concerns at regulated facilities (and MS4s), and it will lead to direct water quality benefits and increased efficiency of compliance determinations.
Products and Timelines:1 Year: Develop a technical guidance document for State Water Board consideration of adoption that identifies storm water permit compliance areas to focus on, and conduct meetings to disseminate recommendations with associated Water Board storm water programs. If necessary, amend the Administrative Procedures Manual to add additional procedures for the agreed upon enforcement procedures related to the enforcement goals.
3 Months: Provide assistance to the associated Water Board storm water programs in conducting outreach through letters or meetings with permitted storm water facilities and MS4s to disseminate the goals of the outcome-oriented compliance review.
1 Year: Provide resources for developing a point of contact for facilitation between the Water Board Storm Water Program and other agencies that conduct work that overlaps the Storm Water Program and host and attend coordination meetings with other agencies and provide deliverables that assist with compliance determinations statewide. The main objective is to increase the efficiency of compliance determinations and facilitate coordination with other agencies that regulate the same permitted storm water facilities and MS4s of the Storm Water Program.
Ongoing: Provide assistance to the associated Water Board storm water programs in conducting inspections and audits of permitted storm water facilities and MS4s with specific emphasis on the identified outcome-oriented enforcement objectives.
Phase II
Objective 5
Improve and Align State Water Board Oversight of Water Board Programs and Water Quality Planning Efforts
Goal 3
Implement Efficient and Effective Regulatory Programs
Goal 4
Collaborate in Order to Solve Water Quality and Pollutant Problems with an Array of Regulatory and Non-Regulatory Approaches
Project Information
Name | Evaluate and Increase Storm Water Permit Compliance |
Start | 2019 |
Completion | 2021 |
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