WHEREAS:

1. The City of Santa Monica (City) has requested an SRF loan of $5 million for the Dry Weather Runoff Reclamation Facility (Project).

2. The Project will reduce the discharge of pollutants from urban runoff into Santa Monica Bay and provide water reclamation and conservation.

3. The City has completed a Negative Declaration to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act in February 1993.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) approves an SRF loan of $5 million to the City for the Project. This approval is contingent upon the City entering into a loan agreement with the SWRCB and beginning construction by May 1999.

The undersigned, Administrative Assistant to the SWRCB, 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.

/s/

Maureen Marché

Administrative Assistant to the Board