Agmt01 County of San Mateo NPDES

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,A Work Plans and Budgets for Fiscal Year' 1998/99 and 1999/00; b) Performance Standards; and c) List of Municipal Stormwater Ordinances and General Program Agreements. 7. The Plan and modifications or revisions to the Plan that are approved in accordance with Provision C.13 and C.14 of this Order, and future fiscal year Program Work Plans to be submitted in accordance with the Plan and Provision C.5 of this Order and are an integral and enforceable component of this Order. 8. Performance Standards, which represent the level of effort required of each of the Dischargers in the Plan, are contained Appendix B of the Plan. The specification of Performance Standards also simplifies the task of determining if a Discharger is putting forth a level of effort that will control pollutants in stormwater discharges to the maximum extent practicable. 9. Each of the Dischargers is individually responsible for adopting and enforcing ordinances, implementing assigned best management practices (BMPs) to prevent or reduce pollutants in stormwater, and providing funds for capital, operation, and maintenance expenditures necessary to implement such BMPs for the storm drain system that it owns and/or operates. Assigned BMPs to be implemented by each Discharger are listed in the Performance Standards in Appendix B of the Plan. Enforcement actions concerning this Order will, wherever possible, be pursued only against the individual Discharger(s) responsible for specific violations of this Order. 10. The Regional Board adopted a revised Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay Basin (Basin Plan) on June 21, 1995. This updated and consolidated plan represents the Regional Board's master water quality control planning document. The State Water Resources Control Board and the Office of Administrative Law approved the revised Basin Plan on July 21 and November 13 of 1995, respectively. A summary of the regulatory provisions is contained in Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations at Section 3912. The Basin Plan identifies beneficial uses and water quality objectives for surface waters in the Region, as well as effluent limitations and discharge prohibitions intended to protect those uses. This Order implements the plans, policies, and provisions of the Board's Basin Plan. 11. The beneficial uses of Lower and South San Francisco Bay, the Pacific Ocean, tributary steams, contiguous water bodies, and other water bodies within the drainage basins are listed in the Basin Plan. 12. The Regional Board considers stormwater discharges from the urban and developing areas in the San Francisco Bay Region, including San Mateo County, to be significant sources of pollutants. Furthermore, the Regional Boards finds that there is a reasonable potential that municipal stormwater discharges may cause or contribute to 'The fiscal year begins on July 1st and ends on June 30th.