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3-Aelo STOPPP Stormwater Management Plan assist the municipalities with NPDES permit compliance reporting, General Program work plans and budgets, and assessing effectiveness. 6.0 Watershed Assessment and Monitoring This component supports the implementation of other program components. The primary goals of the component include assessing water quality conditions in representative San Mateo County watersheds, determining whether specific pollutants are adversely affecting local waterways, and developing plans to address any pollutants of concern. In addition, one of the goals is to identify effective BMPs and to evaluate the overall effectiveness of STOPPP's activities. In order to achieve these goals the General Program will continue to use environmental indicators to assess representative watersheds (Task 6.1); develop and implement pollutant- specific control pro <gratns for pollutants believed to be impairing local waterways (Task 6.2); participate in regional efforts to monitor and solve water quality impairment problems (Task 63); and prepare NPDES permit required reports, monitoring plans, budgets and reports, including annual assessments of the effectiveness of the component's activities (Task 6.4). Work Plans and Budgets (Appendix A) .as noted previously, the General Program's «ork plans and budgets for FY 2003/04 and FY 2004'05, the first year of the Plan's proposed implementation, are contained in Appendix A. It is estimated that the General Program costs for FY 2004/05 will be about 51.2 million. Draft work plans and budgets for the first two years of the Plan will be prepared for submittal to the Regional Board by March 1 as required by the NPDES permit. Performance Standards (Appendix B) Performance standards to be implemented by member agencies have been reviewed and updated for the following five areas of the Plan: • Municipal Maintenance Activities • Industrial and Commercial Discharge Controls • Illicit Discharge Controls • Public Information/Participation • New Development and Construction Controls STOPPP developed performance standards as a tool to help STOPPP's municipalities comply with their NPDES permit. The Clean Water Act and STOPPP's stormwater NPDES discharge permit require STOPPP member agencies to control discharges of pollutants to the maximum extent practicable (MEP) and to effectively prohibit illicit discharges. STOPPP developed the performance standards to define the MEP level of effort that each member municipality will attain to control pollutants in stormwater. In addition, the performance standards define the level of effort that each member municipality will attain to effectively prohibit illicit discharges' from entering its municipal storm drain conveyance system'. ' Illicit discharges include non - stormwater discharges disallowed by the STOPPP NPDES permit. ' Municipal storm drain conveyance system includes roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, curbs, gutters, catch basins, storm drain inlets, ditches, man -made channels, or storm drains. "SmUz SM33 -MSWMP TAC Adopted Version \02- EXSUM.DOC ES-4 November 4, 2003