WHEREAS:

1.The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) has served as the lead agency for the preparation of the LTMS PEIR, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), which have prepared the LTMS Policy Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS).

2.The SWRCB, USACE and USEPA have circulated the joint draft PEIS/PEIR for public review and comment.

3.The SWRCB, USACE and USEPA have responded to the comments received and have prepared a joint Final PEIS/PEIR.

4.The USACE and USEPA have certified the Final PEIS by jointly signing a Record of Decision on July 16, 1999.

5.The SWRCB has consulted with the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) under the California Endangered Species Act, and the DFG has issued a non-jeopardy biological opinion.

6.The SWRCB certifies that the PEIR has been completed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)(Pub. Res. Code, § 21000 et seq.).

7.The SWRCB has reviewed and considered the information within the PEIR, and the PEIR reflects the independent judgment of the SWRCB.

8.As a plan-level document, no particular dredging projects are being approved under this PEIR.All Mitigation Measures identified in the PEIR will be incorporated into the LTMS agencies' jointly-developed Management Plan, and further incorporated into a San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board Basin Plan Amendment, a San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Plan Amendment, and, as applicable, all permits issued there under, as appropriate.The San Francisco Bay and Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Boards shall be responsible to monitor, in compliance with CEQA, that the Mitigation Measures described in Chapter 5 of the Final PEIS/PEIR are implemented in specific dredging, or dredged materials placement, projects in their Regions.

9.The SWRCB concludes that it is in the public interest to certify the Final PEIR, to be used in the preparation of a multi-agency Management Plan and implementing regulations, and for the preparation of a Basin Plan Amendment by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and a Bay Plan Amendment by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.

10. Subsequent CEQA findings, and possibly further CEQA analysis, will be required at the time the Management Plan and implementing measures are adopted.Such analysis may include, as appropriate, traditional CEQA documents such as supplemental or subsequent EIRs, or the Board's Functional Equivalency process.

THEREFORE IT IS RESOLVED THAT:

The SWRCB certifies that the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Report for the Long Term Management Strategy for the Placement of Dredged Material in the San Francisco Bay Region complies with the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act.

The undersigned Administrative Assistant to the SWRCB does hereby certify that the forgoing 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 October 21, 1999.

/s/

Maureen Marché

Administrative Assistant to the Board

Note: PEIR available, contact: Jim Sutton (916) 657-2190.