Stortnwater and Sediment 



• develop guidelines setting specific standards to govern the siting and design of 

 development so as to consider water quality concerns as a basis for siting, 

 operation, and maintenance; 



• complete water quality certifications, developing guidelines and procedures as 

 recotnmended in the subsequent section on water quality certification; 



• utilize the 205j program's framework for setting need priorities to establish detailed 

 water quality goals to guide non-point source pollution efforts in specific areas; 

 develop a planning process for these selected areas which clearly links defined 

 water quality goals to non-point pollution control programs and requirements; 



• establish a pre-development and post-development water quality monitoring 

 program for use in critical watershed areas and estuarine waters. Define how water 

 quality measurements will be used in evaluating the adequacy of stormwater, 

 erosion, and sedimentation control measures and facility designs. Define how 

 water quality measures will be used in measuring adequacy of facility performance 

 through time, and in initiating enforcement procalures where maintenance 

 schedules are not adhered to and non-point source controls are allowed to become 

 insufficiently effective; and 



• as an aspect of the preceding responsibility, establish a two-part management 

 oriented water quality standard in which each agency responsible for regulating 

 activities with a potential for contaminating waterbodies would establish both a 

 preventive action limit and an enforcement standard . The preventive action limit 

 would be a small fraction of the companion enforcement standard; violation of this 

 limit would trigger an examination of possible responses by the administrative body 

 having jurisdiction over the source. Depending on the actiial or potential 

 seriousness of the contamination, the agency could require site-specific remedial 

 action, revise agency rules to address the problem, or take no action. Violation of 

 the enforcement would trigger an immediate enforcement action against the violator. 



***Prepare revisions to statutory language providing DEM authority to: 



a) regulate alterations in wetlands of any size; 



b) specifically consider cumulative effects of wetland alteration. 



**Revise wedands regulations to provide an escalating scale of application fees for re- 

 processing of deficient applications to account for increased staff review cost (presendy 

 applied in Dartmouth, Massachusetts). 



***As discussed in OEM's Freshwater Wetland Conference Policy 

 Statements, revise wetlands regulations to provide wetland defmition 

 encompassing areas as defined by the law in its broadest sense, based on 

 the statements of intent in the Freshwater Wetlands Act. 



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