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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Contra
FROM: Supervisor Nancy Fande.n
Costa
DATE: December 3 , 1985 County
SUBJECT: Legislation : H . R. 8 ' Amendment to Clean Water Act I
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a position of support for H.R. 8, a House bill to
amend the Clean Water Act, that would provide $12 million
for studies and a bay management plan.
At a time when Congress is apparently willing to commit the
necessary funds to address some of the most important
estuarine problems in the Nation, it would be inexcusable if
the San Francisco Bay/Delta estuary were not included in any
such nationwide cleanup effort.
BACKGROUND:
San Francisco Bay is slowly dying and federal aid is needed
to save it.
Experts cite water diversions, toxic pollutants, urban and
agricultural runoff and disappearing wetlands as San
Francisco Bay' s major problems.
Federal and state dams that block rivers from flowing into
the bay are harming aquatic life by increasing salinity.
Experts at a recent seminar sponsored by the Environmental
Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration urged two measures to help save the bay:
1) Call on Congress to approve an agreement for the joint
operation of federal and state water projects.
2) Require the federal government to maintain high water
quality standards in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River
Delta.
Measure H.R. 8 passed the House as part of the Clean Water
Act earlier this year, but the Senate has- not included the
plan in its version of the bill. Senator Pete Wilson has
written to the Senate managers of this bill and has
requested that they adopt the House proposal in the
forthcoming House/Sentate conference on the amendments to
the Clean Water Act.
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OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: Board of Supervisors ATTESTED December 3 ,^ 1985
County Administrator Phil batchelor, Clerk of the Bard of
County CounselSupervisors'andCountyAdrniriistrator
Se ator Pete Wilson. 9ay Area Counties
M382/7-83 BY DEPUTY