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presumed that stormwater services are used whenever there is an improved premises. Rather than <br />charge all people who are sanitary sewer customers, the stormwater service charge. wilhs now be <br />charged to all customers with impervious surface,~t~c i uri~i3' ii ~~nl~ which directly or indirectly <br />discharges to a public storm drainage facility. <br />-.The. revenues collected from service charges are currently used to fund a variety of stormwater <br />services including: maintaining channels, such as Amazon Creek, and catch basins, repairing and <br />replacing the existing conveyance system, picking up leaves, sweeping and flushing streets, preventing <br />and ..cleaning up spills, mapping and information management, administration, central service <br />allocation. Due to new federal stormwater quality regulations, customer fees will also be usedto <br />cover some of the storm-related components of Eugene's commitment to the West Eugene Wetlands <br />Program, related natural resources protection and the best management practices outlined in the <br />National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System stormwater quality. permit <br />tissue -the City. <br />4.0 General Approach And Definitions <br />To determine the total revenue requirements to be collected from stormwater service charges, the <br />annual cost.ofthe stormwater program is determined by.assimilating threefour cost centers: uantit <br />ual~ty rdet ~3~c1 and administration. Administrative costs are divided ~ ci o on . <br />q . ~ ~ equ~l~ zp~ ~~ ~~~ uY <br />et,,we~c<~ide,~,~,nt~al aiia `~rcn~~r:al anll stormwater customers, ~vl~ile quantity and quality costs are <br />allocated to customers has~d on the <br />catego the~'~represcnt, an 1 titrr~ <br />~" <br />comma .inii ,s,~tn a 1 c iastctii~r5 by ca <br />After revenue requirements are identified for the complete stormwater program, revenues other than <br />the stormwater service charge are determined. These other revenues may include systems <br />development charges, assessments, federal and state grants, borid proceeds, permit fees and.other City <br />funds, such as the road fund. The other revenues would be deducted from the total program <br />requirements to determine the service charge revenue requirements. <br />For the purposes of this document, the following terms are defined as: <br />• .Customer -- any person responsible who is authorized to request stormwater service, or who is <br />receiving stormwater~seivice from the City, or who is responsible for the payment of <br />the charge for storrriivater service <br />• Building Foot Print -- as applied to residential customers, means first floor area of a residential <br />building including the floor area of an .attached or detached garage: <br />• Small Residential Category -- the group of residential customers who have 1,000 or less square <br />feet of estimated building foot print. Duplexes with a total foot print <br />of 2,000 square feet or less will be treated as two small residential <br />properties: <br />Stormwater Service. Charge: Methodology Paper -Page 2 <br />Draft Revisions -April 10, 1995 <br />