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RESOLUTION NO. 5042 BY: Messrs. Brockman, Chinnock, Graber, Magnotto, McBride, Sinagra, Usher A RESOLUTION declaring the intent of the City of Lakewood to join with other general purpose units of local government within the Northeast Ohio Area (Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit Counties) to develop and implement a plan resulting in a coordinated Waste Treatment Management System for the Northeast Ohio Area. WHEREAS, Amendments pursuant to Section 208 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, public law 92-500, hereinafter called the Act, the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has promulgated guidelines for identification of those areas which as the result of urban industrial concentration or other factors have substantial water quality control problems (40 CFR, Part 126), and WHEREAS, Seven Counties within Northeast Ohio Complex #10, consisting of the Counties of Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Summit, hereinafter called the area, satisfy the criteria contained in the Act and guidelines, and designation of the Area pursuant to the Section 208 of those guidelines is desirable, and WHEREAS, Section 126.10 of the guidelines requires, among other things, that the affected general purpose units of local government in the problem area must show their intent to formally adopt a resolution, to chart together in the planning process, and to develop and implement a plan which will result in a coordinated Waste Treatment Management System for this area, and WHEREAS, such planning process and Waste Treatment Management System is necessary as a significant measure to control present point and non-point water pollution ~nd to guide and regulate future development and that development in the area which may affect water quality in order to best abate and solve existing and potential substantial water quality control problems; now, therefore~ BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAREWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That the City of Lakewood recognizes that the Northeast Ohio area has substantial water quality control problems and supports the desig- nation of the area pursuant to Section 208 of the Act and the EPA guidelines. Section 2. That the City of Lakewood declares its intent to join with other affected general purpose units of local government within the boundaries of the area to develop and implement a plan which will result in a coordinated Waste Treatment Management System for the Area; and Section 3. That inasmuch as the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency is the single representative organization with elected and appointed officials of general purpose local government capable of developing the necessary areawide waste treatment management plan for the area, the City of Lakewood supports the designation of that organization as the Section 208 planning agency for the area. Section 4. That all of the proposals for grants for construction of publicly owned treatment works within the boundaries of the designated area will be coordinated with~ the approved plan and will only'be made by the management agency or agencies tO be designated as a result of th~plan, wh~ dJveloped and approved. ~ ~ 'f~ ~ ]/ ~ // // Pg~sident~ ' / Clerf Approved~ ~!/~ Mayor