WHEREAS:

1. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) has been funded previously through cooperative agreements by DoD and has actively participated in the DoD Environmental Restoration Program.

2. California Environmental Protection Agency designated DTSC to be the sole recipient of funding through DoD Cooperative Agreements.

3. The SWRCB and DTSC have agreed to split lead responsibility at DoD facilities in order to avoid duplication in cleanup oversight.

4. DTSC will provide to the SWRCB funding from DoD through an IA to ensure water quality concerns are addressed in response actions at military bases.

5. Approval of this IA will ensure that there will be coordinated state agency oversight of the DoD facility cleanup activities, including those activities at closing bases.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

The State Water Resources Control Board authorizes the Executive Director to execute a two-year IA with DTSC for oversight of the cleanup of military facilities during FYs 1998-99 and 1999-2000 in the amount of approximately $8 million.

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 May 27, 1998.

/s/

Maureen Marche

Administrative Assistant to the Board