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Sent: Monday, September 14, 1998 11:49 AM To: Barrett, Tony; Hegy, Terra; O'Brien, Ed Cc: Ehlers, Paula; Manning, Sandra Subject: 401 Water Quality Certificationsand Stormwater Discharges Hi Tony, Terra, and Ed - Here's the e-mail I am planningto send out to the 401 and storrnwater staffs - I wanted to send it to you first so you can look it over and considerwhether to include this issue in the Thursday meeting. Let me know what you think... Tom L. DRAFT 401 Water Quality Certifications and Stormwater Discharges Hi all- want to provide you all with a brief summary of a very significant issue that we've recently become aware , of, and one that we will have to deal with at many levels - everywhere from reviewing individualpermits to developing an agency perspective onthe matter. I would like to start talking about this sooner rather than - later, and would appreciate the opportunity to include this issue in this Thursday's stormwater meeting at NWRO. Here's the issue - when Ecology approves a project for 401 certification, we are certifying that the project construction and operation meets the state water quality standards and other appropriate state aquatic resource-related regulations. When the project includes stormwater discharges, we have been requiring the applicant to meet the conditions of the appropriate stormwater manual, thinking that compliance with the BMPs listed in the various manuals were adequate to meet standards. Recently, we sat down with an applicant to analyze their proposed stormwater treatment and found that…

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