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Joint resolution appropriating $50,000 of County Bridge Tax funds for fiscal year (FY) 2017 miscellaneous engineering services, water quality monitoring services, and materials needed to meet the minimum requirements of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) general National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) ILR40 Permit for Lake County, and designated as Section 17-00000-18-GM.
Staff Summary
• FY2017 Miscellaneous NPDES MS4 Services and Materials: County Bridge Tax: Appropriation.
• Lake County is a municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) community that is required to comply with the IEPA General NPDES ILR40 Permit that became effective on March 1, 2016.
• Permit requirements include new program enhancements and water quality monitoring activities that will require the use of engineering services, contract services, and materials utilizing County Bridge Tax funds, and a project appropriation is needed.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, operates a municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) and is required to comply with the reissued IEPA permit for the discharge of storm water; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, needs to acquire miscellaneous services and materials to address needed program enhancements and water quality monitoring requirements; and
WHEREAS, in order to acquire necessary miscellaneous services and materials, an appropriation of funds is required.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that there is hereby appropriated $50,000 of County Bridge Tax funds for FY2017 miscellaneous services and materials needed to meet the minimum requirements of the IEPA General NPDES ILR40 Permit for Lake County, and designated as Section 17-00000-18-GM.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on September 12, 2017.