CC Resolution No. 9521708
RESOLUTION NO. 952
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN
URGING THE LEGISLATORS FROM THE BAYTOWN AREA TO SUPPORT
LEGISLATION MODIFYING THE EPA NATIONAL POLLUTANT
DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT REGULATIONS; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
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WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency has published regulations
concerning the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program in the
Federal Register dated September 26, 1984, and
WHEREAS, the above described regulations require permits for many more
water discharge sources than have been required in the past, including storm water
point sources; and
WHEREAS, these new regulations would require permit applications from
governmental entities, commercial businesses, and industrial sites for any storm
water discharge point, storm water run-off from parking lots, or storm water
run-off from industrial sites; and
WHEREAS, the proposed regulations do not differentiate between contaminated
and non -contaminated storm water run-off; and
WHEREAS, the definition of industrial storm water point sources includes
areas such as access roads, and does not distinauish between areas that might have
pollutants and areas that do not, and
WHEREAS, areas such as parking lots can not be controlled through the
permitting process due to the large number of users who contribute to any
pollutants being on such parking lots, and
WHEREAS, the EPA has proposed no practical treatment process for treating
the storm water run-off from parking lots or other such sites, and
WHEREAS, the number of point sources in the country is so enormous it is
unlikely that the EPA will be able to develop a basis for issuing permits for such a
disparate group of sources, and it is therefore doubtful that such permitting will be
accomplished, making the whole permittinq process a pointless waste of time and
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WHEREAS, the EPA has in the past made progressive efforts to control
contaminated storm water run-off and made realistic decisions to exempt non -
contaminated storm water point sources and to control non -contaminated point
sources by other methods, but has been limited by federal court decisions which
state that the EPA could not lawfully exempt these point sources, and
WHEREAS, legislation is necessary to give the EPA the authority to enact
realistic regulations for the control of storm water run-off; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN:
Section 1: That all of the legislators representing the Baytown area are
asked, urged, and encouraged to support legislation that would amend Section 402 of
the Clean Water Act to give the Environmental Protection Agency the ability to
adopt realistic and workable regulations that would exempt various types of storm
water run-off sources from its permitting process, thus saving the citizens, local
businesses, and local governments literally millions of dollars in cost that would
otherwise be expended.
Section 2: That area legislators are urged to adopt such legislation in order
to re-enact the original intent of the EPA regulations, rather than allowing the
Courts to impose restrictions that were never intended.
Section 3: This resolution shall take effect immediately from and after its
passage.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City
Council of the City of Baytown, this the 14th day of August, 1986.
FNVAETT O. H TTO, Mayor
APPROVED: