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EXHIBIT 4 COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR INTEGRATED REGIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT FUNDING IN THE SANTA ANA FUNDING AREA This Cooperative Agreement (Agreement), which shall have an effective date as of the date fully executed by all parties hereto, is between the County of Orange, Orange County Sanitation District, Orange County Water District (collectively referred to as Orange County Parties), and the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA), a joint powers authority. SAWPA and the Orange County Parties are collectively referred to as the "Parties." WHEREAS SAWPA is the Regional Water Management Group for the Santa Ana Funding Area, for purposes of Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) project identification, prioritization, proposal, and grant funding allocation with respect to the One Water One Watershed (OWOW) Plan and any subsequent updates; WHEREAS integrated planning at a regional scale is an important aspect of water resources management that is valuable in identifying opportunities for actions that create multiple, regional benefits and resolve or avoid conflicts in the watershed, and such integrated planning is valuable in promoting and improving collaboration across jurisdictions and functions at both the watershed scale and within significant parts of the watershed; WHEREAS North Orange County comprises a significant part of the Santa Ana Funding Area, including the San Gabriel River -Coyote Creek, Anaheim Bay Huntington Harbour, Newport Bay, and Newport Coastal Streams sub -watersheds, where water management issues and priorities, such as surface and coastal water quality, differ from those in the upper Santa Ana River watershed; WHEREAS the Orange County Parties, pursuant to an agreement amongst themselves, to wit, the Memorandum of Understanding for Integrated Regional Water Management in North and Central Orange County Watershed Management Areas, are a Regional Water Management Group for purposes of development and implementation of an IRWM Plan; WHEREAS the Orange County Parties have, with the collaboration of other North Orange County stakeholders from the San Gabriel River -Coyote Creek, Anaheim Bay Huntington Harbour, lower Santa Ana River, Newport Bay, and Newport Coastal Streams hydrologic units, developed and adopted an IRWM Plan for North and Central Orange County, referred as to as "the OC Plan," which was developed and written to comply with State IRWM standards; WHEREAS the hydrologic units represented in the OC Plan are currently part of the Santa Ana Funding Area covered by the OWOW Plan; 55A-11