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PL-9. Stormwater Permits <br />Primary focus of national pollution discharge standards should <br />be on industrial run-off and areas determined to be causing significant <br />pollution problems in association with such activity. The League also <br />recognizes the seriousness of agricultural sources of such pollution and urges <br />that guidelines be developed to encourage states and cities to undertake action <br />to restrict discharges that exceed national or state pollution standards. <br />The League supports congressional action to modify proposed EPA regulations <br />to require direct consultation with state and local officials in the development <br />of EPA stormwater management policy for state and local government and the <br />involvement of local officials in the development of the state stormwater <br />management plan. Such guidelines would take into consideration geographic <br />variables, costs and benefits and seek to address the most serious pollution <br />discharge problems. <br />Elimination of proposed requirements for cities to obtain permits for every <br />stormwater outfall is essential in the design of an abatement program directed <br />at the most serious stormwater management problems. Cities must not be forced <br />to undertake testing and regulation of stormwater run-off from countless <br />locations. It would b, impossible for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency <br />to enforce such permit requirements for all locations. <br />