WHEREAS:

1. The Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) for the San Francisco Estuary was unanimously adopted by the Management Committee in June, 1993 and approved later that year by the Governor and U. S. EPA Administrator.

2. The State Board has applied to U. S. EPA for a grant of $100,000 for FY 98-99 to continue implementation of the CCMP.

3. The Executive Council of the San Francisco Estuary Project (SFEP) approved the workplan as of April 1, 1998 and it was subsequently submitted to the U. S. EPA as part of a grant application.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:

1. The State Board authorize the Executive Director, or his designee, to accept a grant from the U. S. EPA up to $100,000 to continue the Cooperative Agreement for FY 1998-99 for the implementation of the CCMP for the San Francisco Estuary, in accordance with the workplan approved by the SFEP's Executive Council.

2. That the State Board authorize the Executive Director, or his designee, to negotiate and execute contracts and agreements to implement the CCMP in accordance with the workplan approved by the SFEP's Executive Council.

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 19, 1998.

/s/

Maureen Marché

Administrative Assistant to the Board