WHEREAS:

1. The State Water Resources Control Board adopted the SCG Priority List on May 14, 1997;

2. The adopted list already contains eligible project costs of about $85.4 million;

3. The request to reserve funds for the Community of El Rio would impact existing small communities competing for and expecting grant funding;

4. Allowing the use of an unsupported Median Household Income (MHI) and not applying the sliding scale to determine grant funding for El Rio would be unfair to all other applicants using estimated 1996 MHI data to qualify for placement on the SCG Priority List and who have the amount of their grant funding determined by the sliding scale.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

The State Water Resources Control Board denies the request from the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board to place the community of El Rio on the Small Community Grant Priority List.

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 May 27, 1998.

Maureen Marché

Administrative Assistant to the Board