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RESOLUTION
76-R-74
RESOLUTION INDICATING THE INTENT TO PARTICIPATE WITH OTHER
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN THE NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS AREA IN A
• JOINT PLANNING PROCESS TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A PLAN
RESULTING IN A COORDINATED WASTE TREATMENT MANAGE-
MENT SYSTEM FOR THE AREA
WHEREAS, Section 208 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments
of 1972, P. L. 92-500 (hereinafter called "Act") requires that in areas of
urban industrial concentration having substantial water quality control
problems, an areawide planning and management process for correcting such
problems be undertaken; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Act, the Governor, after consultation with
appropriate local officials, is to designate the areawide planning districts
and a single representative agency, which includes local elected officials,
capable of developing effective areawide waste treatment hanagement plans;
and
WHEREAS, the EPA regulations in Section 126.11 encourage the use of
existing regional agencies consistent with the policies of Title IV of the
• Inter -governmental Cooperation Act of 1968, as implemented by Part IV of
OMB Circular A-95 to receive the designation as the single responsible
agency for waste treatment management planning in designated areas; and
WHEREAS, Section 126.10 of the EPA regulations requires, among other
things, that the local governments within a substantial water quality
problem area must indicate their intent, through formally adopted
resolution, to join together in the planning process to develop and
implement a plan which will result in a coordinated waste treatment
management system for the area; and
WHEREAS, the designation of the NIPC should insure the integration
of waste treatment management planning into the overall comprehensive
developmental planning process for the northeastern Illinois area; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Evanston hereby
indicates its intention to participate in an intergovernmental process
• to develop and implement a plan which will result in a coordinated waste
treatment management system for the northeastern Illinois area; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the City of Evanston hereby requests the
Governor to designate the northeastern Illinois area as a substantial
• water quality problem area and further designate the NIPC as the responsible
agency to conduct waste treatment management planning within such area
under the provisions of Stction 208 of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act Amendments of 1972 and the EPA regulations promulgated and implemented
thereto.
ATTEST: 1G/ Eugene Dunworth, Jr.
DeputyCity Clerk
ADOPTED November 25 ,1974
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1r,1 Edgar ITAnnema. Tr
Mayor