Business Help

• Small Business/Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Advocate
  Provides vendors and contractors with information on business opportunities with the State Water Resources Control Board, as well as procurement and contracting official contacts. Assists small business with Prompt Payment Act issues. For more information, please contact:

  Jeff Tacher, SSA and Small Business/DVBE Advocate
  Phone: (916) 341-5083
  Email: Jeffrey.Tacher@waterboards.ca.gov

• Small Business Assistance
  Govt. Code Section 11148 requires that each agency that significantly regulates small business designate at least one individual to serve as the small business liaison with the role and responsibility of ombudsman.
  
  For more information, please contact our State/Regional Board Ombudspersons:
  
  

  Board	Ombudsperson	Contact Information
  State Water Resources Control Board	Gita Kapahi	1001 I Street Sacramento, CA 95812 Gita.Kapahi@waterboards.ca.gov (916) 341-5501
  North Coast Regional Board (R1)	David Leland	5550 Skylane Blvd., Suite A Santa Rosa, CA 95403-1072 David.Leland@waterboards.ca.gov (707) 576-2069
  San Francisco Bay Regional Board (R2)	Dyan Whyte	1515 Clay Street, Suite 1400 Oakland, CA 94612 Dyan.Whyte@waterboards.ca.gov (510) 622-2441
  Central Coast Regional Board (R3)	Michael Thomas	895 Aerovista Place, Suite 101 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-7906 Michael.Thomas@waterboards.ca.gov (805) 549-4623
  Los Angeles Regional Board (R4)	Deborah Smith	320 W. 4th Street, Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90013 Deborah.Smith@waterboards.ca.gov (213) 576-6609
  Central Valley Regional Board (R5)	Richard Loncarovich	11020 Sun Center Drive, Suite 200 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 Richard.Loncarovich@waterboards.ca.gov (916) 464-4640
  Lahontan Regional Board (R6)	Lauri Kemper	2501 Lake Tahoe Blvd. South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150 Lauri.Kemper@waterboards.ca.gov (530) 542-5436
  Colorado River Regional Board (R7)	Jose L. Angel	73-720 Fred Waring Drive, Suite 100 Palm Desert, CA 92260 Jose.Angel@waterboards.ca.gov (760) 776-8932
  Santa Ana Regional Board (R8)	Kurt Berchtold	3737 Main Street, Suite 500 Riverside, CA 92501-3339 Kurt.Berchtold@waterboards.ca.gov (951) 782-3286
  San Diego Regional Board (R9)	James Smith	9174 Sky Park Court, Suite 100 San Diego, CA 92123 James.Smith@waterboards.ca.gov (858) 467-2732

   

  (Updated 4/26/13)