WHEREAS:

1.  In the Fiscal Year 1998-99 funding was approved for Lake Tahoe Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment at $150,000 per year from the General Fund,

2.  The proposed agreement with the Regents of the University of California, Davis would use those funds (FY 98/99 $150,000, FY 99/00 $150,000, FY 00/01 $150,000, a total of $450,000) to conduct long-term water quality monitoring and assessment at Lake Tahoe,

3.  The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board would manage an interagency agreement with the Regents of the University of California, Davis in an amount not to exceed $450,000 for three years,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

The SWRCB authorizes the Executive Director or his designee to negotiate, execute and amend an interagency agreement with the Regents of the University of California, Tahoe Research Group, to conduct long term monitoring, investigations, and research at Lake Tahoe consistent with the mandate of the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board and the goals of the Lake Tahoe Interagency Monitoring Program.

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 April 29, 1999.

/s/

Maureen Marche
Administrative Assistant to the Board