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a. Permittees shall implement a program or policy directive to create opportunities for the public to provide input during the decision making processes involving the development, implementation and update of the SWMP, including development and adoption of all required ordinances and regulatory mechanisms. b. No later than May 31 each year, Permittees shall post on their website and make the latest version of the annual report and SWMP Plan available to the public. All other submittals should be available to the public upon request. Co -Permittees and other groups of Permittees that are developing the SWMP in a cooperative effort may post the updated SWMP Plan on a single entity's website. To comply with the posting requirement, a Permittee that does not maintain a website may submit the updated SWMP Plan in electronic format to Ecology for posting on its website. 3. Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination Each Permittee shall implement and enforce a program designed to prevent, detect, characterize, trace and eliminate illicit connections and illicit discharges into the MS4. The minimum performance measures are: a. Each Permittee shall continue to maintain a map of the MS4, showing the location of all known and new connections to the MS4 authorized or approved by the Permittee; all known outfalls; the names and locations of all waters of the state that receive discharges from those outfalls; and areas served by discharges to ground. i. Field surveys conducted pursuant to the requirements of S5.13.3.c.iii. shall verify outfall locations and identify previously unknown outfalls on priority water bodies. Permittees shall, upon request and to the extent consistent with national security laws and directives, provide maps and mapping information to Ecology, other entities covered under this permit, other municipalities, and/or federally - recognized Indian Tribes. This permit does not preclude Permittees from recovering reasonable costs associated with fulfilling mapping information requests by other municipalities, federally -recognized Indian Tribes, Co -Permittees and Secondary Permittees. ii. The preferred, but not required, format for mapping is an electronic format with fully described mapping standards. An example description is provided on Ecology's website. iii. The Permittee shall maintain documentation of the information included in the map, and the map shall be updated periodically. b. Each Permittee shall effectively prohibit, through ordinance or other regulatory mechanism, non-stormwater discharges into the MS4. Eastern Washington Phase II Municipal Stormwater Permit — August 1, 2014 Page 13