WHEREAS:

1. Leaking underground storage tank (UST) sites require cleanup to protect drinking water supplies and other beneficial uses of ground and surface waters;

2. The State Water Resources Control Board's policy on USTs encourages local agencies to play a strong role in supervising the investigation and cleanup of leaking USTs;

3. The Local Oversight Program has been established to provide funds to local agencies for the oversight of investigation and cleanup at leaking UST sites; and

4. The Petroleum Trust Fund provides a major portion of the funding for the local agency contracts in the Local Oversight Program. It also provides a source of revenue for the Regional Water Quality Control Boards to oversee leaking UST cleanups at sites within the Regional Water Boards' jurisdiction.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:

That the State Water Board:

1. Authorizes the Executive Director, or his designee, to accept the Petroleum Trust Fund grants not to exceed $17,000,000 over the next three (3) years beginning in FFY 1999 and any subsequent amendments or fund augmentations; and

2. Authorizes the Executive Director, or his designee, to execute a Cooperative Agreement with EPA, Region 9.

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 16, 1998.

/s/

Maureen Marché

Administrative Assistant to the Board