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Agreement D08-104 WHEREAS, the PARTIES have limited resources with which to address the implementation of the PLAN and it is recognized that any effective implementation of the PLAN will depend upon availability of funding sources at the regional, state and federal levels; and, WHEREAS, on September 25, 1985, the COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT was amended to add the City of Tustin as a participant; and, WHEREAS, on April 20, 1999, the COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT, then numbered D99-026, was amended to add the Orange County Flood Control District, the City of Lake Forest, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, Santa Ana Region, and the Irvine Ranch Water District as participants and the purpose of the agreements was expanded to include cooperative work on nutrient impairments and other common watershed issues in the NEWPORT BAY WATERSHED; and, WHEREAS, since the last amendment of the COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT in 1999 a number of changes affecting water quality regulation, funding and governance have affected the NEWPORT BAY WATERSHED including: 1. Total Maximum Daily Loads (hereinafter ~~TMDL" or ~~TMDLs") have been approved by the Regional Water Quality Control Board, Santa Ana Region for fecal coliform on April 9, 1999, diazinon and chlorpyrifos on April 4, 2003, and organochlorine pesticides on September 7, 2007, and by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for toxic pollutants on June 14, 2002. Additional TMDLs are in development. The organochlorine pesticides TMDL recognizes that pollutants other than the organochlorine compounds, such as metals, pyrethrins or other emerging pollutants may pose the more real or significant threat to beneficial uses in the watershed and allows stakeholders to pursue an integrated approach to TMDL implementation through development and implementation of a work plan that encompasses all sources of water quality impairment; and, - 2 - 8-26-09 25B-4