WHEREAS:

1. The San Fernando Valley ground water basin provides drinking water for over 600,000 people.
   
2. A portion of the San Fernando Valley and Verdugo ground water basins are polluted with volatile organic compounds, chromium, and nitrates at concentrations exceeding State and Federal drinking water standards.
   
3. Four areas within the San Fernando Valley were placed on USEPA's National Priority List (NPL) for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites in 1986. The four areas are: North Hollywood/Burbank, Crystal Springs, Pollock well fields in the San Fernando Valley Basin, and the Crescentia Valley and Glorietta well fields in the Verdugo Basin.
   
4. The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB) has been investigating sources of ground water contamination in the San Fernando Valley under its Underground Tank and Well Investigation Programs since 1984 in an attempt to identify sources contributing to ground water pollution.
   
5. If funding is appropriated, USEPA will make a grant available to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) which will continue funding for additional staff positions to continue source investigation activities in the San Fernando Valley.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

The SWRCB authorizes the Executive Director or his designee to:

1. Apply for and accept a Federal grant of approximately $600,000 from USEPA.
   
2. Negotiate a workplan to continue source investigation activities in the San Fernando Valley.
   

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 January 21, 1999.

/s/

Maureen Marché

Administrative Assistant to the Board