STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 99-018

AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF A CONTRACT WITH THE IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT (IID),
THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY (AUTHORITY), AND THE STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD (SWRCB) TO UNDERTAKE TASKS IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED TRANSFER OF CONSERVED WATER FROM IID TO THE AUTHORITY

WHEREAS:

1. The Authority seeks to acquire an independent, reliable, long-term water supply to provide drought protection and to accommodate anticipated growth among its 23 member-public agencies;
2. The Authority entered into an Agreement on April 29, 1998, with the IID to furnish a quantity of conserved water between 130,000 and 200,000 acre-feet per annum for an initial period of 45 years;

3. The Agreement calls for the SWRCB to perform the following tasks:

• Process the necessary water right petitions(s) for change to allow transfer of conserved water from IID to the Authority,
• Review IID's reasonable and beneficial use of water,
• Confirm that the IID is enforcing the contractual duties and obligations of the contracting landowners within the IID to undertake water conservation efforts, and
• Verify that the quantity of water being transferred to the Authority is water that has been conserved by the IID, the contracting landowners or a combination thereof;

4. The IID on July 22, 1998, filed with the SWRCB a Petition for Long-Term Change of IID's water right Permit 7643 (Application 7482) to request the transfer of conserved water to the Authority;

1. The FY 1998-99 State budget specified that the SWRCB's costs for implementing the tasks in the agreement should be shared among the State, the IID, and the Authority. The IID and the Authority will provide half of the funding for the SWRCB's costs ( up to $ 3,075,500 for 5½ fiscal years). The other half of the SWRCB's costs will be provided from the State's General Fund.
2. The IID and the Authority understand that the compensation provided by this agreement is not dependent upon the SWRCB's approval of the Petition for

Long-Term Change of IID's water right Permit 7643.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:

That the SWRCB authorizes its Executive Director to execute and amend, if necessary, a contract with the IID and the Authority, which provides for the SWRCB to receive reimbursement of costs in an amount not to exceed $3,075,500 for a period extending from January 1, 1999 to June 30, 2004 to perform tasks noted in the above paragraph 3.

That the Executive Director:
1. shall make a final draft of the contract noted above available for comment by interested parties;

2. shall consider such comments received from interested parties and shall incorporate such comments as he determines to be desirable;

3. may work with the other contracting parties to develop a workplan(s) to further define work to be undertaken on the tasks noted in the above paragraph 3;

4. shall make any such workplan(s) available to interested parties for comment;

5. shall present the workplan(s) to the SWRCB at a public workshop where interested parties may summarize before the SWRCB any comments or concerns they may have regarding the workplan(s); and

6. may re-delegate the authority granted herein to the Deputy Director, the Division Chief or Assistant Division Chief of the Division of Administrative Services, and/or the Division Chief or Assistant Division Chief of the Division of Water Rights.

CERTIFICATION

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 February 18, 1999.
/s/
Maureen Marché
Administrative Assistant to the Board