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BC will retain Aquatic Biology Associates, Inc. (ABA) to perform a benthic stressor evaluation. ABA will review the results from the City's recent B-IBI monitoring. ABA will visit the B-IBI monitoring sites in the late spring or early summer of 2018 to evaluate suitability for monitoring and identify potential stressors. ABA will then prepare a brief memorandum with key findings and recommendations. BC will help City staff prepare a draft QAPP to guide the City's voluntary monitoring program. The QAPP will be organized according to Ecology's guidelines. The City will review and comment on the draft QAPP. BC will meet with City staff to discuss their comments. BC will revise the QAPP based on City comments. Deliverables • E-mail meeting summary • Memorandum documenting B-IBI monitoring site visit and stressor evaluation • Draft and revised QAPP text (30 pages) in electronic format. Assumptions • Two BC staff will participate in two, 2-hour meetings with City staff • ABA will spend one day in the field evaluating the City's benthic monitoring sites in the late spring/early summer 2018 • City staff will accompany ABA on the B-IBI site visits • ABA will prepare one draft and one revised B-IBI site evaluation summary memorandum • City staff will prepare certain sections of the QAPP (e.g., introduction, background, sampling location maps) • BC will prepare one draft and one revised version of BC's QAPP sections • The City project manager will consolidate all City comments on the draft QAPP Task 3 Regulatory Support Ecology is amending the state water quality standards for protection of recreational uses in accordance with EPA guidelines. Preliminary indications are that Ecology plans to switch from fecal coliform to E. coli as the fecal indicator bacteria for freshwater recreation. The draft revisions should be available for public review in the spring of 2018. BC will review the draft revisions and prepare draft comments for the City. We will participate in a conference call to discuss the revisions and draft comments with City staff. We will then revise our draft comments, which will be provided to the City in a brief Word document. Ecology is also working on its next Water Quality Assessment (WQA). The primary purpose of the WQA is to identify water bodies that are not meeting state Water Quality Standards and need TMDLs or similar clean-up plans. TMDLs. Thus, the WQA could 6/6/2018 3