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existing written policy. For public projects involving funding deadlines or public projects 

 involving health and safety issues, the review committee could meet with representatives of 

 the public agency or municipality and the staff biologist to clarify issues, adjust project 

 plans to mitigate wetland impacts, or set schedules and deadlines for compliance with 

 specified pollution control measures or other impact mitigation procedures. 



*As an adjunct to the review board recommended above, create an on-going 

 Operations Committee to serve as a forum for public involvement, program 

 review, and resolution of public concerns, using the wetlands task force as 

 a basic model. Develop standing review committees to study and recommend solutions 

 to particular substantive and administrative problems facing the freshwater wetiands 

 program, and to which public concerns could be addressed, for adnainistrative action. 

 Provide funding sufficient to ensure publication and circulation of Operations Committee 

 findings. (This committee would work closely with the Council advocated in Chapter 1.3.) 



Implementation of Non-point Source Controls 



***Revise wetlands regulations to specifically incorporate the technical 

 requirements, recommendations and language of the Stormwater and 

 Erosion Control Committee regarding stormwater management planning, 



design and installation of best management practices, and maintenance and repair of 

 facilities. Attach applicable stormwater controls and maintenance and repair provisions to 

 all weUands permits. 



***Revise wetlands regulations to specifically incorporate the technical 

 requirements, recommendations and language of the Stormwater and 

 Erosion Control Committee regarding erosion and sedimentation control, 



design and installation of best management practices, and maintenance and repair of 

 facilities. These technical requirements will be defined in the updated Rhode Island 

 Sediment and Erosion Control Handbook, currcntiy in preparation. Attach applicable 

 erosion and sedimentation controls and maintenance and repair provisions to all wetiands 

 permits. 



***Revise section 7.02 of the regulations, entitied "Drainage Effects;" to specifically 

 incorporate the technical requirements, recommendations and language of 

 the Stormwater and Erosion Control Committee regarding stormwater 

 management planning, design and installation of best management practices, and 

 maintenance and repair of facilities. Attach applicable stormwater and sedimentation 

 contnDls to all weUands permits. 



**Revise section 7.03 "Floodplains;" to define measures by which requirement of "zero 

 displacement of flood storage capacity" can be formalized via performance and construction 

 standards. Incorporate the technical requirements, recommendations and language of the 

 Stormwater and Erosion Control Committee regarding stormwater, erosion, and 

 sedimentation management planning, design and installation of best management practices, 

 and maintenance and repair of facilities. Attach applicable stormwater, erosion, and 

 sedimentation controls to all weUands permits. 



**Revise section 7.03 to define criteria to be used in evaluating fill and excavation 

 compensation plans with regard to potential stormwater and erosion/sedimentation impacts. 



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