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~D <br />Rule .0265, Stormwater Management for New Development <br />This rule would require ail local governments in the Jordan watershed to develop and implement <br />programs to require Stormwater controls on new development activities to meet subwatershed <br />nutrient loading rate targets. Developers would control nutrient export to minimum levels onsite, <br />and could meet remaining reduction needs through in-lieu fee payment to EEP, or to local <br />governments with aDivision-approved local offset plan. Control of flows for stream protection <br />would also be required. Development in existing water supply watersheds would also be required <br />to comply with density-related treatment thresholds and density caps designed to protect local <br />water supplies where they are more stringent. Within one year of effective date, the Division <br />would submit a model local program to the Commission for approval. Within another six <br />months, local governments would submit programs for Division review and subsequent <br />Commission approval. Within two and a half years after the effective date, local programs would <br />be implemented. Annual reports would be required. <br />• Includes acreage thresholds for new development (Item (3)). <br />• Incorporates nonpoint source loading rate targets to make them specific to this rule and <br />consistent with methods used to date, and includes clarifying explanatory language that <br />may allow refinements during implementation. <br />• Includes offsite loading rate thresholds for consistency with other programs, to provide <br />for reasonable onsite measures, and to avoid overtaxing EEP. <br />• Includes offsite options. <br />• Incorporates BMP design criteria, including water supply requirements that remain <br />applicable. <br />Rule .0266, Stormwater Management for Existing Development <br />This rule would require all local governments to implement loading reduction measures on <br />existing developed lands toward long-term load reduction targets for those lands. They would <br />conduct feasibility studies, and then submit program proposals for Division and Commission <br />approval within three years after effective date. Programs would propose implementation rate, <br />nature and overall timeframes envisioned. Programs would be implemented within four years of <br />rule effective date. Programs for public education and illegal discharge detection and elimination <br />are to be implemented within two and a half years. Annual reports would be required. <br />• Counties would be subject. <br />• Explicitly credits BMPs implemented post-baseline as reductions <br />• Explicitly counts load increases from post-baseline development in reduction needs. <br />• Includes explanation of types of activities that could be credited as load-reducing. <br />• Includes criteria for content of local program submittals to provide an understanding of <br />expecfiations. <br />