WHEREAS:

1. The State Water Resources Control Board, on February 16, 1995, adopted the "Policy for Implementing the State Revolving Fund (SRF) for Construction of Wastewater Treatment Facilities (SRF Policy)" and amended it on January 18, 1996;

2. The State Water Resources Control Board, on June 22, 1995, approved a $3.6 million loan for the construction of Phases V (and VI) of the Infiltration and Inflow Correction Program, City of Alameda;

3. The preliminary loan commitment contained the requirement from Section IX(J) of the SRF Policy and specified that the expiration date for the preliminary loan commitment be January 1, 1996 for Contract No. 2 (Phase VI);

4. The City was unable to submit the plans and specification for Phase VI to the Division for approval by the expiration date for the preliminary loan commitment due to engineering staff changes and an increase in work load in the City's Public Works Department; and

5. The City submitted the biddable plans and specifications on December 10, 1997 and is requesting a recommitment of loan funding for Phase VI of the Infiltration and Inflow Correction Program.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

The State Water Resources Control Board

1. Recommits SRF loan funding of $2.3 million from the FFY 1998 account to the City of Alameda for the construction of Phase VI of the Infiltration and Inflow Correction Program, with a repayment period of twenty (20) years, and the first repayment due one (1) year after completion of construction; and

2. Will withdraw this preliminary SRF loan commitment if biddable plans and specifications are not approved by the Division by March 16, 1998.

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 February 19, 1998.

/s/

Maureen Marché

Administrative Assistant to the Board