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c � • • RESOLUTION NO. 1142 RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO IMPLEMENT THOSE PORTIONS OF THE ABAG ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN RELATING TO WATER QUALITY WHEREAS, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) was designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to prepare an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for the San Francisco Bay Area; WHEREAS, ABAG has prepared an initial EMP that includes water quality, air quality, solid waste management and water supply elements; WHEREAS, the water quality element of the EMP contains policies and actions for surface runnoff that were developed by the counties of the Bay Area; WHEREAS, ABAG has received more than 1 ,500 pages of public comment on the draft EMP, and these have been considered fully by the responsible ABAG approving bodies; WHEREAS, the initial EMP has been reviewed, modified and approved by the ABAG Environmental Management Task Force, Regional Planning Committee, Executive Board, and General Assembly; WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of the Town of Los Altos Hills has re- viewed the initial EMP; WHEREAS, EPA and SWRCB policy is that significant water quality management agencies named in the EMP must indicate their willingness to implement the EMP before EPA and SWRCB can give unconditional approval and/or certification to the initial EMP; WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of the Town of Los Altos Hills is a sign- ificant management agency for the purpose of implementing portions of the initial EMP relating to water quality; WHEREAS, flexibility in implementation of the initial EMP is implicit in the plan so as to include good faith efforts to implement; WHEREAS, ABAG has developed a continuing planning process so that the initial EMP can be updated and revised on a regular basis; WHEREAS, although additional local expenditures resulting directly from the EMP are not large relative to previous or ongoing environmental management activities, local government fiscal resources are strained by the Statewide passage of Proposition 13 on June 6, 1978;