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RESOLUTION NO. :11-11
A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the city
of Port Angeles respectfully requesting
Congress to amend the Clean Water Act of
1972 (P.L. 92-500).
WHEREAS, P.L. 92-500 now requires all agencies subject
to the law and all areas of the United States to comply with the
same set of standards, and
WHEREAS, all treatment facilities do not discharge the
same type of effluent and all receiving waters are not identical,
and
WHEREAS, any treatment required should be cost-effective
in terms of the capital and energy required as opposed to the gain
in environmental quality, and
WHEREAS, Port Angeles had CH2M Hill, a nationally-
recognized consulting engineering firm, conduct a 2 year study
at a cost of $200,000 which showed conclusively that upgrading
our primary treatment plant to a secondary treatment plant
would make such a small change in the receiving waters that it
would be extremely difficult to detect, even with instruments
of high precision.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF PORT ANGELES, that Congress be petitioned to amend
P.L. 92-500 to state that upgrading of facilities will be required
only where it will result in a significant improvement to the
quality of the receiving
waters.
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