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&-D-1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager December 15, 2003 Subject Integrated Pest Management Policy (IPM) under the Municipal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Recommendation Adopt Resolution establishing the San Mateo Countywide Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program Model Integrated Pest Management Policy as a citywide policy for Redwood City. Background The Environmental Protection Agency, under amendments to the 1987 Clean Water Act, imposed regulations that mandate local government to control and reduce the amount of stormwater pollution runoff into receiving waters of the United States. Under the authority of the Porter - Cologne Water Quality Act, the State Water Resources Control Board has delegated authority to its regional boards to invoke permitting requirements. In July 1991, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) notified San Mateo County and all its incorporated cities of the requirement to submit a Municipal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Stormwater Permit application and to implement a Stormwater Management Plan (Plan). Under the direction of the City /County Association of Governments (C /CAG), the San Mateo Countywide Stormwater Management Plan 1998 -2003 was submitted to the RWQCB in February 1998. The RWQCB adopted the Plan, making it part of the San Mateo Countywide NPDES Stormwater Permit CA0029921, which remains in effect until July 2004. The Plan includes performance standards to which each member agency is committed to control stormwater pollution. Under the Plan, the member agencies developed a Pesticide Manaaement Plan that includes goals for minimizing the effects of pesticide use on municipal stormwater quality, actions to achieve those goals, and monitoring mechanisms to document effectiveness of those actions. One of the required actions is adoption of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) policy and /or ordinance requiring use of IPM techniques in municipal operations, minimizing pesticide use, and restricting use of organophosphate pesticides. Pesticides are defined as: any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. The term applies to herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, rodenticides, molluscicides an other substances used to control pests. Pests can be insects, rodents and other animals, unwanted plants (weeds), bacteria or fungi. In order for member agencies to adopt IPM policies, the Parks and Recreation Work Group of the STOPPP Municipal Maintenance Subcommittee developed a model policy each agency could adopt by resolution. The goal of the model policy is to protect health and safety, the environment, and water quality, and to provide sustainable solutions for pest control through reduced pesticide use. The model policy recommends municipal use of