WHEREAS:

1. The 1997 Budget Act authorizes funding on a "pro-rata" basis from each Cal/EPA organization to provide funding for support of California Environmental Protection Agency activities for FY 1997-98.

2. The Board is one of the organizations under Cal/EPA.

3. Each fiscal year the Board enters into an interagency agreement with the Office of the Secretary for Environmental Protection to provide funding for Cal/EPA staffing and operating costs.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:

That the State Water Board authorizes the Executive Director or his designee to negotiate and execute an Interagency Agreement with the Office of the Secretary for Environmental Protection to provide funding for support of Cal/EPA activities in an amount not to exceed $738,000 for Fiscal Year 1997-98.

The undersigned, Administrative Assistant to the Board, does hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board held on November 18, 1997.

/s/

Maureen Marché

Administrative Assistant to the Board