While everyone’s probably been busy making their own list of resolutions for 2001, EHC wanted to be sure that the following government agencies remembered to include a few items that will make San Diego a cleaner, healthier and more just place to live.

City of San Diego – TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR ‘NEW DAY’

• Appoint two new Port Commissioners who represent the diversity of San Diego and who will be environmental stewards of San Diego Bay and the Port tidelands.
• Support the Municipal Storm Water Permit and serve as a model city for innovative and effective prevention of water pollution.
• Drop your appeal of the Regional Water Quality Control Board’s $3.47 million fine for your 34 million-gallon raw sewage spill and move ahead with improving the system to avoid such disasters in the future.
• Fulfill your promise to relocate small polluters like chrome plating shops and chemical supply companies out of residential neighborhoods like Barrio Logan and Logan Heights.
• Adopt a Smart Growth/Social Equity Plan: All residents of the City are entitled to a clean and healthy environment; well paying jobs that don’t risk worker or community health; affordable housing; and adequate infrastructure to meet community needs. Protect the region’s precious open space and wildlife habitat.

County of San Diego – GET WITH THE PROGRAM!

• Copy the Smart Growth resolution for the City and incorporate it into the General Plan 2020.
• Commit to cleaning up San Diego’s air pollution by adopting and implementing all 152 recommendations in the State Air Resources Board audit of the San Diego Air Pollution Control District.
• Commit to clean water and quit fighting the Municipal Storm Water Permit
• Protect children’s health by adopting a comprehensive lead poisoning prevention program using Prop 10 funding.
• Enforce hazardous materials and waste laws! Start by adopting a fee increase for permitees of the Department of Environmental Health to be used for enforcement and pollution prevention.

Port of San Diego

• Keep up the good work demonstrated by your implementation of a pesticide use reduction plan, urban runoff action plan and the San Diego Bay Wildlife Refuge.
• Eliminate the problem of soda ash discharges from operations at the 10^th Avenue Terminal.

City of Coronado

• Adopt emergency response and air monitoring plans to protect residents from Navy operations. Encourage other bayside cities to join you.

San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board

• Stay the course. Congratulations to new appointees and veteran Board members who are requiring that pollution dischargers obey the law.
• Require that shipyards remove all of their contaminated sediments from San Diego Bay.
• Adopt the Municipal Storm Water Permit as drafted after 6 years of debate.
• Endorse the Military Environmental Responsibility Act which will require that military operations comply with the same environmental regulations as all other polluters.
• Fine shipyards for violating their permits and discharging polluted runoff into the Bay.

California Air Resources Board

• Keep up the great work! Thanks for your commitment to investigating air pollution in San Diego’s most polluted neighborhoods and to protecting children’s health.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Thanks to the outgoing Region 9 leadership for your commitment to San Diego’s environmental justice concerns.
• New leadership -- stay the course of your predecessors!

U.S. Navy

• Support the Military Environmental Responsibility Act.
• Develop an emergency response plan for all residents near Navy bases in San Diego.