STATE WATER BOARD     NOTICE OF WORKSHOP & PUBLIC HEARING/BOARD MEETING Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 10:00 a.m. Sierra Hearing Room - Second Floor Joe Serna Jr./Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento

DECLARATION OF A QUORUM
Arthur G. Baggett, Jr., Chair; Peter S. Silva, Vice Chair; Richard Katz, Tam M. Doduc, and Gerald D. Secundy, Members

AWARD PRESENTATION

PUBLIC FORUM
Any member of the public may address and ask questions of the Board relating to any matter within the State Water Board’s jurisdiction provided the matter is not on the State Water Board agenda, or pending before the California Water Boards. Presentations at the Public Forum will be limited to 5 minutes or otherwise at the discretion of the Chairman.

WORKSHOP

CONSENT AGENDA (Items 1-7)

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
1. Consideration of a resolution adopting the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Emergency, Abandoned, Recalcitrant Account fiscal year 2005-2006 annual site list; and, authorizing the Executive Director to issue letters of award or execute contracts and amendments for the expenditure of EAR account funds

WATER QUALITY
2. Consideration of a resolution to authorize acceptance of grant funds from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to continue the cooperative agreement for the San Francisco Estuary Project

3. Consideration of a resolution authorizing the Executive Director to accept a grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to continue source investigation activities in the San Gabriel Valley

4. Consideration of a resolution authorizing execution of contracts and amendments to implement statewide comprehensive groundwater quality monitoring in the groundwater ambient monitoring assessment program

5. Consideration of a resolution authorizing the Executive Director to negotiate and accept a Federal Clean Water Act section 205(j) grant

6. Consideration of a resolution authorizing the Executive Director to negotiate and accept a federal fiscal year 2005 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant and to negotiate, approve, and/or amend the grant, workplan, and contracts for the environmental monitoring and assessment program

7. Consideration of a resolution approving an amendment to the Water Quality Control Plan for the Colorado River Region to incorporate a Total Maximum Daily Load for sedimentation/siltation for Imperial Valley selected drains

REGULAR AGENDA (Items 8-11) NOTE: ITEM 9 WILL NOT BE HEARD PRIOR TO 11:00 A.M.

WATER QUALITY
INFORMATIONAL ITEM -- Status of program to develop sediment quality objectives
8. Informational Item—Annual status report on the State Water Resources Control Board program to develop sediment quality objectives

INFORMATIONAL ITEMS -- COLORADO RIVER BASIN WATER BOARD (NOT BEFORE 11:00 A.M.)
9. Informational presentation by Robert Perdue, Executive Officer, on the Colorado River Basin Water Board’s programs and major issues

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND BOARD MEETING

WATER QUALITY
10. Consideration of the adoption of the State Water Board Water Quality Order No. 2005-xxxx-DWQ, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit No. CA 0103209 for the California Department of Fish and Game Silver King Creek Rotenone Project, Alpine County (Written comments will be received until 5:00 p.m., July 5, 2005).

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

WATER QUALITY
11. Consideration of a resolution amending the State Policy for Water Quality Control for Regulation of Municipal Solid Waste Discharges (Written comments must be received by 5:00 p.m., July 6, 2005).

The Board encourages submittal of written comments. Unless otherwise specified, written comments must be submitted by 5:00 p.m., June 29, 2005 and will not be accepted after that time. Time limitations on presentations may be imposed.

>>Written comments on agenda items are to be addressed and submitted to Debbie Irvin, Clerk to the Board, either by email at dirvin@waterboards.ca.gov; fax (916) 341-5620; or mail addressed to State Water Board, P.O. Box 100, Sacramento, California, 95812-0100. Please also indicate in the subject line, “COMMENT LETTER – 07/06/05 WORKSHOP and respective ITEM NUMBER”. Thank you.<<

See “Presentations to the Board” at http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/board_info/index.shtml. Agenda items will be electronically available after June 27, 2005.

If you have questions about the agenda, contact Debbie Irvin via email or call (916) 341-5600. For a map to our building, see our web site at http://www.calepa.ca.gov/EPABldg/location.htm.

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An audio broadcast of this meeting will be heard via the World Wide Web at http://www.calepa.ca.gov/Broadcast/.


Please note: Some of our older material may no longer be available in electronic form. If you need assistance obtaining a file, please contact the Clerk to the Board, email commentletters@waterboards.ca.gov.