CC RES 1979-033 RESOLUTION NO. 79-33
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
COMMITTING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THOSE ELEMENTS
OF THE SOUTH COAST AREAWIDE WASTE TREATMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN APPROPRIATE
TO ITS JURISDICTION
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES HEREBY FINDS, RESOLVES
AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
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
II/ 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 Palos Verdes is assigned certain responsibil-
ities as identified in the Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City of Rancho Palos Verdes 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 Palos Verdes:
Section 1: To proceed with implementation of its responsibilities as set
forth in the 208 Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan as approved by SCAG, said
responsibilities specifically described as follows:
a. Maintain existing street sweeping programs (prior to Proposition 13)
with consideration given to increasing their effectiveness in re-
ducing wasteloads to receiving waters, to the extent financially
feasible.
b. Maintain current litter control programs, 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.
Section 2: Financial feasibility to be determined solely by the City
Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes.
Section 3: To forward copies of this Resolution to the Southern
California Association of Governments.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 17th day of April, 1979.
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
LEONARD G. WOOD, CITY CLERK &
EX OFFICIO CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of Resolution
No. 79-33 approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes
at a meeting thereof held on the 17th day of April, 1979.
LEONARD G. WOOD, CITY CLERK &
EX OFFICIO CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
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