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From:Levy, Paul@Waterboards
Subject:Notice of Informal Draft Small Municipal Stormwater Permit
Date:Thursday, August 1, 2024 3:08:08 PM
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Notice of Opportunity to Comment on the Informal Draft Small Municipal Stormwater
Permit for Preventing Pollution in Stormwater
Click here to view the Public Notice for Opportunity to Comment on the Informal Draft Small
MS4 Permit.
The State Water Board’s Stormwater Team requests your comments on the Informal Draft
Small Municipal Stormwater Permit, which is intended to improve existing requirements to
further reduce pollutants that enter storm sewers. These comments will be considered when
revising the Informal Draft Small MS4 Permit.
Stormwater staff will hold a virtual staff workshop on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, and an in-
person staff workshop in Sacramento on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Please see the Public
Notice for more information about the workshops and ways to provide comments.
This Informal Draft Small MS4 Permit is not currently being proposed for adoption. Following
the 60-day comment period, the State Water Board will:
1. Prepare and make available a high-level response to written comments; and
2. Revise and release another iteration of the Informal Draft Small MS4 Permit for public
comment, after which the State Water Board may consider adoption.
Small municipalities and local agencies (such as prisons and large hospitals) operate storm
sewer systems that collect, transport, and discharge stormwater. During rain events,
stormwater runoff picks up pollutants, enters storm sewer systems, and eventually ends up in
local rivers, creeks, and streams. Common pollutants found in stormwater runoff include oil
and grease from roadways, pesticides from lawns, sediment from construction sites, and trash.
In 2013, the State Water Board adopted the existing Small Municipal Stormwater Permit to
reduce or eliminate pollutants in stormwater before discharging to waterways. The existing
Permit expired in 2018 but has been administratively extended until the State Water Board
adopts a permit reissuance.
Please email questions on the Informal Draft Small Municipal Stormwater Permit to Paul Levy
at Paul.Levy@waterboards.ca.gov.