Fiscal Note
No Funds Required. Expenditures for erosion control are included in the Engineering Division's Operating Budget and the Budget and Rate Structure for the Madison Stormwater Utility.
Title
Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute the Green Tier/Clear Waters Initiative Environmental Results Program Charter pursuant to Section 299.83, Wisconsin Statutes. (City-Wide AD)
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PREAMBLE
Section 299.83 of the Wisconsin Statutes provides that voluntary methods can be used and improved to minimize and prevent stormwater runoff problems associated with land development and home building construction site activities. The City of Madison, the City of Sun Prairie, Veridian Homes, LLC, Dane County, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have developed a Green Tier Charter to accomplish the following objectives:
1. To support and implement continual improvement techniques in the construction business and on-site construction practices, and the rules governing them, to more effectively reduce the release of sediments and nutrients to lakes, streams, and the wetlands of Wisconsin.
2. That continual improvement techniques going beyond compliance with the rules governing construction business and onsite construction practices will be supported and employed by the signatories. Such techniques may be used to reduced or minimized regulatory oversite in inspection using proven and verifiable management systems that result in measurable improvements.
3. The signatories of the Charter will make this process and site management improvement techniques available and transferable to the general industry to the extent practicable.
4. The signatories will implement changes, to the extent allowable by Statute, Administrative Code, and Ordinance, that allow for the use of these processes in site management improvement techniques by each of their jurisdictional departments and company departments in order to promote the im...
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