WHEREAS:

1. Chapter 6.75 of the Health and Safety Code authorizes Regional Water Quality Control Boards (RWQCBs) and LIAs to take corrective action at petroleum UST sites which have had unauthorized releases;

2. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) has established administrative procedures for providing cleanup funds to RWQCBs and LIAs, which include adoption of an EAR Account Annual Site List;

3. On January 8, 1997, the SWRCB requested the RWQCBs to: (1) contact their LIAs to identify any abandoned and recalcitrant petroleum UST sites for inclusion on the FY 1997-1998 EAR Account Annual Site List; and, (2) submit their annual list of RWQCB and LIA sites nominated to receive EAR Account funding;

4. Two RWQCBs responded, nominating a total of eight eligible sites;

5. Sufficient funding is available to provide the requested funding for the eight sites.

6. The SWRCB wishes to delegate authority to the Executive Director, or his designee, to execute contracts with designated LIAs, pursuant to the EAR Account Administrative Procedures.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

The State Water Resources Control Board hereby: (1) adopts the attached EAR Account FY 1997-98 Annual Site List; and (2) authorizes the Executive Director, or his designee, to negotiate and execute contracts with a designated LIA for the expenditure of EAR Account funds.

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 July 17, 1997.

/s/___________________________

Maureen Marchè

Administrative Assistant to the Board