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BMP 5 LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION PROGRAMS AND INCENTIVES Implementation Implementation shall consist of at least the following actions: Customer Support, Education and Assistance a) Agencies shall provide non-residential customers with support and incentives to improve their landscape water use efficiency. This support shall include, but not be limited to, the following: Accounts 'with Dedicated Irrigation Meters a) Identify accounts with dedicated irrigation meters and assign ETo-based water use budgets equal to no more than 100% of reference evapotranspiration per square foot of landscape area in accordance with the schedule given in Section B of this Exhibit. b) Provide notices each billing cycle to accounts with water use budgets showing the relationship between the budget and actual consumption in accordance with the schedule given in Section B of this Exhibit; agencies may choose not to notify customers whose use is less than their water use budget. Commercial/Industrial/Institutional Accounts with Mixed-Use Meters or Not Metered a) Develop and implement a strategy targeting and marketing large landscape water use surveys to commercial/industrial/institutional (CID accounts with mixed-use meters. Each reporting period, directly contact via letter or telephone not less than 20% of CII accounts with mixed-use meters and offer water use surveys. (Note: CII surveys that include both indoor and outdoor components can be credited against coverage requirements for both BMP 5 and BMP 9.) b) Unmetered service areas will actively market landscape surveys to existing accoums with large landscapes, or accounts with landscapes which have been determined by the purveyor not to be water efficient. c) Offer the following measures when cost-effective: i) Landscape water use analysis/surveys ii) Voluntary water use budgets iii) Installation of dedicated landscape meters -I-