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2 RESOLUTION NO. 3 4 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON SUPPORTING LEGISLATION TO ELIMINATE UNFUNDED FEDERAL MANDATES 6 7 WHEREAS, The City of Colton is facing accelerated costs due to unfunded federal 8 mandates; and g WHEREAS, Congressman Gary A Condit, as a committee member of the Committee on Government Operations, which has jurisdiction over federal mandates, is supporting 10 legislation to eliminate unfunded federal mandates; and 11 WHEREAS, unfunded federal mandates on State and Local governments have become 12 increasingly extensive in recent years; and 13 WHEREAS, such mandates have, in many instances, added to growing deficits in State and Local budgets and have, resulted in the., need for Local governments, such as the 14 City of Colton, to increase revenue or curtail services; and 15 WHEREAS, federal mandates such as Safe Drinking Water Act, NPDES Wastewater 16 Discharge, Industrial Waste Pretreatment,Federal Sludge Disposal Regulations, NPDES Stormwater Regulations and many more continue to mount mandated costs on underfunded 117 local governments such as the City of Colton; and 18 WHEREAS, Congressman Gary A. Condit (D-CA) will introduce legislation to assure 19 that the federal government pays the total amount of direct costs incurred by State and Local governments in complying with certain requirements which take effect on or after the date 20 of enactment of the Act under a Federal statute or regulation; and 21 WHEREAS, this legislation will be introduced, at the beginning of the 103rd 22 Congress; and I 23 WHEREAS, this legislation would provide that any requirement under a Federal statute or regulation that a State or local government conduct an. activity (including a 24 requirement that a government meet national standards in providing a service) shall apply 25 to the government only if all funds necessary to pay the direct costs incurred by the government in conducting the activity are provided by the Federal Government ; and 26 WHEREAS, the City of Colton has experienced an increase from $1.8 to $2.0 million 27 I in operating costs annually, and a requirement for $26.0 million in construction costs 28 i pending as federal mandated costs with more still to come; and i i