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ORDINANCE NO. 618
A JOINT ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IRWINDALE
AND IRWINDALE RECLAMATION AUTHORITY APPROVING AND ADOPTING
THE IRWINDALE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS THE
OFFICIAL ADVISORY BODY TO CITY AND AUTHORITY STAFF
ON MATTERS RELATING TO THE PROPER RECLAMATION OF MINING
QUARRIES WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CITY OF IRWINDALE
WHEREAS, the City of Irwindale ("City") has regulatory oversight responsibilities
and is lead agency for several mine quarries and inert landfill operations within its
jurisdiction pursuant to the provisions of the California Surface Mining and Reclamation
Act of 1975 and implementing State Mining and Geology Board Reclamation
Regulations (collectively "SMARX), and City's Charter and Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the Irwindale Reclamation Authority ("Authority") is a joint powers
authority created to receive and reassign, for the purposes of complying with the
California SMARA and the operating rights from each of the mining company
participants to the Authority and to provide a financial assurances mechanism under
SMARA for certain of the quarries located in the City of Irwindale; and
WHEREAS, City has adopted various ordinances, Charter provisions, land
zoning, zoning overlays and technical guidelines to regulate these operations, and has
approved site specific conditional use permits ("CUPS"), development agreements and
other agreements addressing specific procedures for the mining and reclamation of the
quarry sites and for the backfill of such sites using inert debris landfills to create
industrial, commercial and retail development sites; and
WHEREAS, the City has formed the Irwindale Technical Advisory Committee
("ITAC"), composed of consulting technical professionals, to assist the City in the
technical oversight and assessment of ongoing mine quarry and landfill operations,
review and analysis of technical quality control and quality assurance procedures and
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documentation, assess compliance with regulations, guidelines, CUPs, development
agreements and other agreements, and to review, analyze or proposes new methods of
assuring the quarries are appropriately reclaimed and the landfill sites are developable
without geotechnical restraints (collectively "Reclamation Oversight Work"); and
WHEREAS, the City, at the direction of the Public Works Director and City
Manager, has retained the professional services of certain geologists, geotechnical
engineers and other professional engineers to assist the City regarding the Reclamation
Oversight Work and wishes to designate the ITAC as the official technical advisory body
to the City's Public Works Director on issues concerning the Reclamation Oversight
Work.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Irwindale and Board of
Directors of the Authority do hereby determine as follows:
Section 1. The recitals contained hereinabove are true and correct.
Section 2. The ITAC is approved and adopted as the official technical advisory
body to advise the City's and Authority's Public Works Director/City Engineer on issues
concerning the Reclamation Oversight Work. The Public Works Director, with approval
of the City Manager, shall be authorized to select the members of the ITAC.
Section 3. The Deputy City Clerk and Authority Assistant Secretary shall
certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance and the same shall thereupon
take effect and be in force.
H. Manuel Ortiz, Mayor/Authority Chair
ATTEST:
Linda J. Kimbro, CMC
Deputy City Clerk/Authority Assistant Secretary
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