Item 3 - Update on S.D. Waiver from Secondary Wastewater Treatment
AGE:\'DA REPORT SDI:VIARY
TO:
FROM:
Honorable Ndyor and Members of the City
James L. Bowersox, City Mana~
John D. Fitch, Assistant City Manager
Mark S. Weston, Director of Engineering
Coune i 1
- INITIATED BY:
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DATE:
February 7, 1995
SUBJECT:
Update on San Diego Waiver from Secondary
Wastewater Treatment
ABSTRACT
On October 31, 1994, federal legislation was enacted which allowed San Diego to submit
a waiver application from secondary wastewater treatment requirements at Point Lorna.
The waiver application is currently being prepared by the San Diego Metropolitan
Wastewater Department for submittal to EPA by April of 1995. EPA will have one year to
act upon the waiver application. A wa i ver of secondary wastewater treatment standards
at Point Lorna will allow the facility to be operated at advance primary treatment
standards saving the sewer rate payers several billions of dollars.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
This report is not subject to environmental review.
FISCAL IMPACT
This is a status report and has no direct fiscal impact.
ADDITIONAL PUBLIC NOTIFICATION AND CORRESPONDENCE
Susan Hamilton, Assistant Director of San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council reconfirm their support of a waiver application
from secondary treatment requirements at Point Lorna.
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~ AGENDA REPOR':
CITY OF POW A Y
TO:
FROM:
INITIATED BY:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
James L. Bowersox, City Ma~
John D. Fitch, Assistant City Manager
Mark S. Weston, Director of Engineering
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SUBJECT:
February 7, 1995
Update on San Diego Waiver from Secondary
Wastewater Treatment
BACKGROUND
On October 31, 1994, federal legislation was enacted which allowed San Diego
to submit a waiver application from secondary wastewater treatment
requirements at Point Lorna. The waiver application is currently being
prepared by the San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department for submittal to
EPA by April of 1995. EPA will have one year to act upon the waiver
application. A waiver of secondary wastewater treatment standards at Point
Lorna will allow the facility to be operated at advance primary treatment
standards saving the sewer rate payers several billions of dollars.
FINDINGS
San Diego will be submitting a waiver application for secondary treatment
requirements at Point Lorna to EPA in April 1995. EPA will act upon the waiver
application within one year. Approval of the waiver application will allow
Point Lorna to operate at advance primary treatment rather than installing
secondary treatment processes at a savings of approximately $3 billion
dollars. San Diego City staff will present a status report on the waiver
application to the City Council.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
This report is not subject to environmental review.
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ITEM 3
Agenda Report - Update on San Diego ~aiver from Secondary ~astewater Treatment
February 7, 1995
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FISCAL IMPACT
This is a status report and has no direct fiscal impact.
ADDITIONAL PUBLIC NOTIFICATION AND CORRESPONDENCE
Susan Hamilton, Assistant Director of San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater
Department
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council reconfirm their support of a waiver
application from secondary treatment requirements at Point Loma.
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Attachment 1 - Fact Sheet and Newspaper Clippings
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SAN DIEGO
,YtETROPOUTAN WASTEWATER DEPARTM.E.\T
600 B STREET. SUITE 500 . SAN DIEGO, CAUFOR..\1A 9210/ - 4587
PHONE: (6/9) j33-4200 . Fax: (619) 533-4267
Marie Loften
City of Pay - City Manager's Office
P.O. x 789
ay, CA 92074-0789
January 10, 1995
RECEIVED
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JAN 16 1995
CITY OF POWAY .'
CITY CLERK'S OFFIŒ
SUBJECT:
Waiver Legislation
Presentation Profile
Dear Ms. Loften:
Thank you for considering our request to brief the City of Poway City Council about the
recently passed federallegis!ation providing San Diego the opponunity to apply for a waiver
from secondary sewage treatment As I mentioned when we last spoke, this It:gislation has
significant regional implications. Enclosed please find a fact sheet with information about the
legislation and the waiver application process. I have also included a few newspaper articles that
provide some background infonnation on this topic.
As we discussed, Susan Hamilton, Assistant Director of the Metropolitan Wastewater
Department, will attend your meeting on February 7, 1995, at 7 p.m. to give a brief presentation
about the City's efforts to obtain a waiver and to answer any questions you may have. Please
list the agenda item as "Update on San Diego Waiyer from Secondary Wastewater Treatment. "
Should you have any questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me at 533-
4239.
Si"""'y, ~
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Assistant Community Relations Specialist
CEG:KAM:ls
(GUS\WAlVERILOFTEN.LTR
Enclosure(s): Waiver Presentation Profile
Newsclippings
cc:
Susan Hamilton, Assistant Director., Metropolitan Wastewater Department
ATTACHMENT 1 FEB 7 1995
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SAN DIEGO
METROPOLITAN WASTEWA TER DEP.~RTAŒST
600 B STREET, SUITE 500 . SAS DIEGO, CAUFOR,VIA 92/01- 458ï
PHONE: (6]9) 533-4200 . FAX: (619) 533-426ì
CITY OF SAN DIEGO GAINS WAIVER OPPORTUNITY
Significant Savings Anticipated
The City of San Diego is one giant step closer to saving billions of dollars that would be spent
on an unnecessary wastewater treatment system upgrade thanks to recently passed legislation.
With the support of nationally renowned scientists, federal legislation was recently passed that
will aliow the City io apply to tlle Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a waiver from
a Clean Water Act requirement which orders cities to upgrade their wastewater treatment plants
to the secondary treatment level.
San Diego's Point Lorna Wastewater Treatment Plant operates at the advanced primary treatment
level, treating approximately 190 million gallons of wastewater each day generated in a 450-
square-mile greater San Diego area.
Secondary treatment of wastewater would require removal of 85 percent of solids. The
legislation just passed requires 80 percent of solids be removed. The City meets that level now.
The Metropolitan Wastewater Department has taken the lead on preparing the application for a
waiver from secondary treatment. The City has been fighting for a waiver from this costly
federal requirement because scientific evidence and research finds it unnecessary for deep ocean
dischargers such as San Diego.
The legislation allows the City to present its case, based on scientific evidence, that secondary
treatment at the Point Lorna Wastewater Treatment PIant provides no more protection to the
ocean environment than the advanced primary treatment now provided.
The waiver application will be presented to the EPA in April 1995 and, according to the
legislation, the EP A will have one year to act upon the waiver request. Much of the evidence
presented in the application will come from the City's existing ocean monitoring program, which
consists of analyzing more than one-half million water samples per year in areas surrounding
the City's ocean outfall, extending from the Mexican border to La Jolla. The City has
implemented this ocean monitoring program and collected data about the Point Lorna outfall's
impacts to the ocean environment for more than 30. years. It is one of the most aggressive
monitoring programs in the country.
This waiver effort has regional implications to greater San Diego area sewer ratepayers.
Presentations to community groups and civic organizations have begun in an effort to inform ~;",ìJ...A..
public about this potential cost savings. . ~ þ,
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City wi ns
key victory
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Sewage
EP A likely to agree,
. - if Congress approves
EPA waive:rwouldsave
Ušers he:re $3 billion
Continued from A-1
By KATHRYN BALINT
'WlWn'"
Aiter years of legal wrangling over sew-
age treatment with the federal govern-
ment, San Diegans stand to win a major
VIctOry, saving sewer users 53 billion if a
bill unanimously passed by the House of
Representatives last night wins Senate ap-
proval today.
The House passed the bill with the re.
quired unanimous consent, without a voice
vote, at the end of the legisLative day,
"It's a wonderful victory, but we've got to
get it through the Senate: said 5an Diego
Mayor Susan Golding. "That's critical. It's
going to save San Diegans billions of dol.
lars:
The bill would allow San Diego to apply
for a waiv", or exemption. from the federal
sewage-tr..tment standard. The U.S. Envi- '.
ronmental PTotection Agency h.1s sue<! San
Diego to try to force the city to bring its
Point Lorna Wastewater Treatment' Plant
up to the federal standard, calle<! secondary
'",tment, reqlÜre<! of almost all citi.. by
the CI..n Water Act.
The city has argued that secondary tr..t-
mont, primarily intended to clean up lake;.
and rivm, is needlessly stringent for San
Diego, which discharges its sewage 4.5
miles out into the ocean.
U.S. District Judge Rud; M. Brewster
ruled in April that scientific evidence indis-
putably shows that San Diego's advance<!
primary treate<! sewage dœs not h.1rm ma-
rine life, but said he cannot exempt San
Diego from the law, He gave the city until
Jan. 19, Ig9S. to try to persuade Congr..s
to ch.1nge the law.
Initially, San Diego had hoped to change
the sewage-tr..tment standards when Con.
gr'ss considere<! a sweeping overhaul of
the Clean Water Act. the lederallaw that
prot<cts waterways /rom pollurion. But the
act's reauthorization stalle<!.
With ooJy one more week of House ses-
~on 1,lt tlUs year and bope running out for
San Diego, the bipartisan coalition 01 Reps.
Lytln 5<:henk, Bob FUner and Randy "Duke"
Cunningham yesterday sponsore<!a bill that
would giv, San Diego six months to apply to
the EPA for a waiver from secondary sew-
age tr..tment.
San Diego and its representatives face<!
an uphill battle trying to convince represen-
tativ.. from other dties - most of
which h.1d already upgnde<! their
sewage systems to se<:ondary treat.
ment - that San Diego deserve<! a
chance to be exempted /rom the
standard.
"It took in enormous amount 01
eifort to get the right people con.
vincod to allow this to go through,'
5<:henk, D-San Diego. said last
night after an anxious day in which
she h.1d fearod the bill might not
pass. It would have taken an objec.
tion from ooJy one member of the
. House to der;UI it.
FiIn", D-San Diego, said the Jan-
uary d..d1ine set by the judge
helped convince repre...'tatives of
the urg,ncy,
"The judge in the case really
helped us by literally begging for
legislative relief: Filner said. "That
was very convincing to our col-
leagues bere:
Filner said another convincing
lactor was the scientific soundness
of San Diego', arguments that sec.
ondary treatment would not bene-
fit. and could even harm. the local
environment.
"By going to secondary, which
increases sludge. uses more ,nor.
gy, among other things, the up-
gnde would h.1ve been probably an
environmental negative: Filner
said.
Cunningham. R-Escondido, said
San Diego', battle is not over, "It's
. not something we can go to bed on,"
he said.
. In the Senate today, Sen. Bar-
bara Boxer. D-Calif.. p!.ms to ask
.- . that the bill be passe<! bywwUmous
consent. as it was in the House, But
it would take ooJy one senator's
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objection to stall the bill,
Cunningham said be believes
there is a good chance of it passing.
1/ it dœs, it would become law after
being ~gnod by PTesident Clinton.
The local chapter 01 the Sierra
Club, which helped draft the legisLa.
tion and which h.1s actively lobbied
on its behalf, vie.... the bill's pas-
sage by the House as 'a wonderfuJ
development: said Robert
Simmons. the chapter's attorney.
He said chances of the bill going
anywhere had looked grim,
One reason lor the chapter's sup-
port is the legislation's requirement
that San Diego have the capacity to
redaim at least 45 million gallons a
day of sewage by 2010 as a condi-
tion for receiving a waiver /rom
se<:ondary treatment.
By most accountS, if the bill be-
comes law, San Diego h.1, a good
chance 01 winning EPA approval of
the waiver.
City Manag" Jack McGrory said
a waiver is likely "as long as the
EPA is willing to listen to scientific
evidence: In anticipation of being
allowed to submit a new waiver
application, the city Metropolitan
Wastewater Department and a
team of scientists began work on
one earlier this year.
-We are putting together what
we think i, an airtight waiver appli-
cation: McGrory said. "Every sci-
entist that we've had involved in
tlus has said that we '" not harm-
ing the environment in any way and
that we should get a waiver:
The legisLation would reqlÜre
San Diego to remove at least ao
percent of the solids /rom sewage,
as opposed to the as-percent re-
moval rate 01 secondary treatment.
The Point Loma plant use, ad-
vanced primary treatment to re-
move about a2 percent of the sol-
ids.
The cost 01 upgnding the plant
to secondary treatment is estimat.
e<! at $1.5 billion in capital outlay,
and up to $3 hillion with inflation
and financing costs factorod in,
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S.D. nearer waiver
, on sewage discharge
House OKs legislation,
Senate passage expected
BY BRADLEY J. FIKES
S14ffWri",
Saa Di,go pusod a mH..,aa, ia ilS qu"I
fa, aa ""mptiaa from a multibiJIiaa-dollat
s""ag' sy",m upgnd, pusbod by Ib, U.S.
Enviroam,a..1 Prol"Iiaa Ag,acy.
Th, Ha... of R'p....a"Iiv.. YOIOd ..aai.
mausl, wI w..k 10 1'1 S'" Di'ga appiy 'a
Ib, EPA (0, a wai.., of CI..a Wat" Act
NI.. fa, disc!latgiag ....al"
If analOd, th, wai.., would allow Saa
Di,SO 10 k..p using ""'van=! prim.,,' ..w-
ag' ""'m,a' " ilS Paial L.o... aulf.1I plaal,
i..,..d'af th, 100" ""Iy secoadot)' Ire'"~
m,a' mando"d ia Ib, CI..n WI'"~ Act.
Num'roussci,al~1S aad instilulia.., ia-
eluding Scripps Insliludan of Ocanoanpb"
bm supportod Saa Di,go', "I"m'nl '110,
Ib, ,"",nl sy",m doesa'l 110"" th, DCaa
,nvironm,a. Bul Ib, EPA su,d th, aty 10
,afa", th, upand., sayinl il ~ mandalOt)'
uad"Ib,CI....Wa",Act.
laApril, U.S. DiSlrictJudg, Rudi BrowslO'
gnnlod Ib, aty undUan. 19, 1995, 10 1'1 th,
leg~lalian charigod. H, cridc:izcd th, upand,
as costly and una.......t)', bul "'dod thaI b,
",uld nol giv, San Diogo "lief from th""a-
.....iansl mandolO.
Hawovo" thaI ..lid "'10" from a bill in.
UOducod by U.S. Rop. 8ob Rlnc, aad sup.
port,d by bb D'mocndc and San Di,go col.
¡..gu" ~yan Sob,nk. It was "'nsid",d on an
ox",dilOd bu'" m..aiag il a""',d uaaai.
maus ",a..allO pass.
Th, I'gislatiaa wu Ib'a ..alla Ib, S'a.
"', wb", Ib, sam, condition applin. lIS
Waiver:
spaasa, Ib", is S'a. Barbin 80m, D.
c.lif. AI pro" lim" support", said Ib, bill
wu up"IOd 10 pus.
Sob,ak ""'said il wauid be difficult 10 I"
th, "Ibarizaliaa ....... it would be lookod
aa u living S'" Di'ga 'P"ial ""'m'a.
Bu. sb, said, 'b, facts, aad Iwnwalk wilb
Ria", gaia,d th, support of b" ",lIagu...
"W,'ro going 10 sa.. billions of dollars
with a linl, commaa .....,. FHa" said. ..",~
bHI wiJI p"..al S.a Di,go ral...ay'" from
being fart:ed 10 fiaaa.. a multibillian-dallar
wbi" 'I'pbanl."
Saa Di'ga bu six maalhs 10 apply fa, th,
EPA waiv", said Susaa HamillOa, assislaal
di""a, of Ib, cilY's M,oopoli..a Wwcw..
", Doportm,a. Th'n Ib, EPA Iw. ya, 10
"vi,w Ib, appliadan befo" "admag a pro-
limia.t)' d"isiaa. Duriag these roviews San
Di'ga aa ",nlia.. 10 ... th, ",,",a. "'.
v",cod prim." ",atm'al s"',m. .
Th, cilY ~ "".dy wolkiag aa .a .""lia.
don. H.millan said, .ad ox""", 10 ha.. il
teady 10 submil by the belianing of April.
If Ib, Se..,e does nol a""rove Ib, ...iv"
bill, HamillDa said, th, cilY would be bock
nul ya, 10 p"" the wu, .g.ia.
If FHn"'s bill bocom.. law and th, EPA
granlS a waiv", San Di,1O would be roqui'"
10 buHd ,naugb ""'m,nl apacily 10 ...,C',
45 million gallons "" day of sowag' by th,
Y'" 201 D. Th~ should nol be 100 diffi",,111D
acbi..., Hamiltaa said. .
Th, oilY is ,"",nlly building Ibe Nartb
CilY Wat" R<damatian Plan. which ",uld
"cyc', Jo.millian galla.. "" day, Hamilton
said. II is ..bodul,d 10 be compl..od by 1997.
Another plant with a ........iUion-piloo-1>or.
doy capac;ty ~ ¡";ag pia"'" adi-' 10 the
PI..",.~.. ,.,."
c_.....,-,.,. ,
I.....do." Boonds"... WatorCommiasioa's
San Ysidm pia'" fOf Mox;.", ""'p. It's ox.
"""10 be opaalional by the ,...2001.
.".. "maiaiag apacily wiJI "'10' from a
Ibird plaal, which will probabl, be buill ia
..alral Saa Di'ga, H.miltaa said.
Und" """,al c.lifamia Dopart..,al Df
H..lth NI... Ib, "'ycl,d WI'"~ from Ib...
plaalS aa ani, be usod fa, naa.potabl, pur.
poses sucb u i"ig"iaa.
But H.mHIaa said. ...,al stat, d..i,iaa
10 co.....,..II, 'ppro... Coua" W"" Au-
Ibqdly pl.a 10 US< ropurifi,d w..., ia a I""al
...c",ai, means 'b, oilY migbl be ultimalOl,
.lIaw,d 10 u.. ilS ,..yel,. watc, fa, ddakiag
purposes u w,u.
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~ aiver is the first step
San Diego's sewage problems are not yet over
San Diegans won a victory in
Congress last week with the
appro.vaJ of legislation allowing
: the CIty to apply for a waIver
: from federal sewage-treatment
standards that would have cost ratepay-
ers about $3 billion.
: It was a unique bipartisan effort that
pushed through the legislation. The cam-
paign included aggressive support from
lawmakers as diverse as Rep. Bob Filner,
D-San Diego, and Rep. Randy "Duke"
Cunningham, R-Escondido; Republican
Mayor Susan Golding and Rep. Lynn
Schenk, D-San Diego; Gov. Pete Wilson
and Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.
: But the pernrission to seek a tempo-
rary waiver is not the fmal answer to San
,Diego's sewage problems. Eventually,
we have to get the Environmental Pro-
lèction Agency off our backs entirely
when it comes to sewage. San Diego
needs more than a temporary reprieve.
Next year, San Diego County's delega-
tion in the House, with the help of Cali-
fornia's U.S. senators and local officiaJs,
needs to make sure that the federal.
Clean Water Act is amended in our favor.
One onerous provision of the existing
law is the mandate that all sewage be
treated to the secondary level. San Die-
go's Point Lorna plant is an advanced-pri-
mary system.
Science has shown that cities like San
Diego that dump their treated sewage
deep at sea don't need secondary treat-
ment to protect the environment. The
Clean Waler Act must be changed 10
reflect that scientific fact.
First, howeve:, San Diego must apply
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for and secure a waiver. That will mean
that the city's current treatment system
will be legaJ under the Clean Water Act.
The EPA has had a lawsuit against San
Diego since 1988 for violating the act.
Applying for the waiver and getting the
waiver are, of course, two different
things. But if the EP A takes an objective
look at the city's waiver appilcation -
and doesn't let politics hinder its deci-
sion-ma1cing - San Diego should prevail.
San Diego's waiver application actually
is a mammoth, $I million study that will
detail exact scientific reasons why San
Diego doesn't need secondary treat-
ment. In addition to city sewage experts,
scientists from UCSD's Scripps institu-
tion of Oceanography have been working
on the docwnent. Scripps scientists have
long opposed secondary trutment for
San Diego as costly, unnecessary and
actually detrimental to the environment.
This study should have more use than
just a waiver application. It aJso could
hecome the scientific foundation for San
Diego's effort to amend the Clean Water
Act.
If the EPA agrees, on a scientific basis,
that San Diego deserves a waiver from
the secondary-treatment mandate, a log-
ical extension would be that San Diego
doesn't need secondary trutment at all,
now or in the future.
If the Clean Water Act is amended, the
EPA lawsuit would end and our sewage
nightmare would be over. So far, it has
been a multimillion-<lollar nightmare. But
if San Diego hadn't fought back, and if
the EPA had its way, it would have been a
multi~ilIion-dollar nightmare. r.
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problems.
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be ae:ded eo ene .oode of Çi'ril ",,<:cedure 988 "cffar i:: c<:mprorr,ise" process. Allows
pa~~i' to ëa",de~ a formal sae~lemenr. offa~ a r.he early sëages of litigation, If
rejecr.ee: and ëhe party does as well or beer.er at:. trial, they recov~r certain ccsts,
This bill "'auld adê "ttcr"~y fees as a cost t"at ",ill be reco'rered.
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without a p~=mot, as long as the o~~er can p::cdt::oe ¿ocumentatier: showing thaë the
fer=et has bee:-- vaccin,,"eè ag.ai"st >:"abies.
CO-ÄUTEOR L~G!SLA7!CN
S3 11: Sta~e mandated lo~al pr~~=ams. P::osp~ctive laws im~osing s~a"a-ma"da~ed costs
on local gove~nmen~ would be inope~ative unless fully fu",ded by the S~ate,
Consti~ut:.ional excep~ions,~ and several ot~e:: S~o~~lêted ex~ap,io"s are inco~po~ated
in the meaS'lre.
AC" 2: Red Ribbo" Week. p>:"oolaims Cct:, 23 -31 as "red ribbon week". Encou,,"ages
California to ne~? builê d=ug-f=ee envi=onments and to ;a~tici:9ata in d~ug p>:"evention
activities.
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~~~;:t~~Yw!~îm~~~Yt~~~ ~~~~~~¿ services and p"og>:"sms, If f~~ds not available, new
unfunded sta~e ma,,¿atea. would >:"equire all bills which mandates a nsw p>:"ogram and
~~~~~" ~o~~~t~~~narÏo:;:O';ercif:eali~c" ~~{¿ t~~~ ~i~fa~~:t~: \eofea"trteadc;~s t~~ ~~;~~",~i~~;;ee.
Commemora~e vic~~ of Holccaust. Resolution chao ccmmemo~ates ::he vic::ims of t~e
hoL:ocaust on this SCth an.",-i,raraar-:!,
ACR 4: Holo~aust Memorial Week. Resolut:ion that designates the waa~ of April 23-29,
1995 as CA Eolocaus~ Memo=ial WeeK.
Juveniles - violent offenses. ~Ak~s available ~o ~he public the names of juveniles
cha=ged with se~iot:s or violent felonoee ~~d gra:fiti ofte~sës.
AS 247: Checks on c:hild welfare employees. would !:equire fi~se=!JrintL'1g anè.
'background checks on perspec~ive child welfare service employees.
SCR 12: Coun~¥ tent prisons. Encourages, net requ~~es counr.ies to consider using
tents t" house p=iscne:::s. Faoility wc"li be fer le',,-:::isì:, mi::imu", se-::u"i ty inl"Ates,
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