The overall goal of this project was to develop an implementation framework for an offsite BMP program to maximize the environmental and economic effectiveness with which the City of Wichita meets its NPDES stormwater permitting requirements to ultimately improve water quality in the Little Ark and Arkansas Rivers. This program aims to integrate watershed stakholders across sociopolitical bounds and provide a sustainable funding mechanism to implement and maintain water quality practices in the rural landscape, a critical need as watershed managers struggle to meet water quality targets (e.g., TMDLs). Based on dialogue between stakeholders representing the watershed’s agricultural (represented by the Little Ark Watershed Restoration And Protection Strategy program, or WRAPS) and urban (represented by the City of Wichita’s Stormwater Advisory Board and City officials) communities and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), which administers TMDLs and water quality permits, the program works to optimize the placement of BMPs within the watershed for maximum water quality benefit of the integrated system. Rural management practices tend to be less costly, thereby enabling greater pollutant load reduction per dollar spent on BMPs in rural versus urban areas. For this reason, net costs to urban developments participating in the offsite program should be significantly less than if traditional urban water quality control practices were installed and maintained. A program framework was developed in which a “sediment credit” fee is paid annually by urban developments participating in the program to finance implementation and maintenance of offsite BMPs as facilitated through the Little Arkansas WRAPS program. Adoption of this offsite program is anticipated to lead to greater reductions in sediment (and other pollutant) loads leaving the watershed than could be achieved through conventional implementation of BMPs within urban bounds to meet MS4 permit requirements. The program is currently in its first year of implementation.