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1.0 Introduction <br />1.1 Purpose of Long-Term Trash Reduction Plan <br />The Municipal Regional Stormwater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System <br />(NPDES) Permit for Phase I communities in the San Francisco Bay (Order R2-2009-0074), <br />also known as the Municipal Regional Permit (MRP), became effective on December 1, <br />2009. The MRP applies to 76 large, medium and small municipalities (cities, towns and <br />counties) and flood control agencies in the San Francisco Bay Region, collectively <br />referred to as Permittees. Provision C.10.c of the MRP requires Permittees to submit a <br />Long-Term Trash Load Reduction Plan (Long-Term Plan) by February 1, 2014. Long-Term <br />Plans must describe control measures that are currently being implemented, including <br />the level of implementation, and additional control measures that will be implemented <br />and/or increased level of implementation designed to attain a 70% trash load <br />reduction by July 1, 2017, and 100% (i.e., “No Visual Impact”) by July 1, 2022. <br /> <br />This Long-Term Plan is submitted by the City of San Leandro in compliance with MRP <br />provision C.10.c. Consistent with provision C.10 requirements, the goal of the Long-Term <br />Plan is to solve trash problems in receiving waters by reducing the impacts associated <br />with trash in discharges from the San Leandro’s municipal separate storm sewer system <br />(MS4) that are regulated by NPDES Permit requirements. The Long-Term Plan includes: <br />1. Descriptions of the current level of implementation of trash control measures, <br />and the type and extent to which new or enhanced control measures will be <br />implemented to achieve a target of 100% (i.e. full) trash reduction from MS4s by July 1, 2022, with an interim milestone of 70% reduction by July 1, 2017; <br />2. A description of the Trash Assessment Strategy that will be used to assess progress towards trash reduction targets achieved as a result of control measure <br />implementation; and, <br />3. Time schedules for implementing control measures and the assessment strategy. <br />1.2 Background <br />1.2.1 Long-Term Trash Load Reduction Plan Framework <br />A workgroup of MRP Permittee representatives and Water Board staff met between <br />October 2012 and March 2013 to better define the process for developing and <br />implementing Long-Term Plans, methods for assessing progress toward reduction goals, and tracking and reporting requirements associated with provision C.10. Through these <br />discussions, an eight-step framework for developing and implementing Long-Term Plans was created by the workgroup (Figure 1-1). <br /> <br />325