Resolution 2293
k RESOLUTION NO. 2293
A RESOLUTION OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC
UTILITY DISTRICT MAKING FINDINGS THAT
CHANGES OR ALTERATIONS IN OR INCORPORATED
INTO PROJECT HAVE BEEN REQUIRED WHICH AVOID
OR REDUCE TO AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS
WITHIN THE RESPONSIBILITY AND JURISDICTION OF DISTRICT
AND
MAKING FINDINGS THAT OTHER CHANGES OR ALTERATIONS
REQUIRED TO AVOID OR REDUCE TO AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL
SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS WITHIN THE RESPONSIBILITY
AND JURISDICTION OF OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES
HAVE BEEN, CAN AND SHOULD BE ADOPTED BY SUCH
OTHER AGENCIES
AND
STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS
SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
WASTEWATER FACILITIES PLANNING PROGRAM
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of the South
Tahoe Public Utility District that:
(1) The Facility Plan for the South Tahoe Public
Utility District Wastewater Treatment System, dated May,
1978, and the Facility Plan Update, dated February, 1981,
as well as proposed minor changes in Alpine County, sub-
ject of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report,
have been presented to the Board of Directors of the South
Tahoe Public Utility District.
(2) The Final Environmental Impact Report for the
South Tahoe Public Utility District Facility Plan Program,
dated March 1979, the Final Environmental Impact Statement
Wastewater Treatment Facilities South Shore Lake Basin,
dated February 1981, and the Final Supplemental Environmental
Impact Report for the South Tahoe Public Utility District
Wastewater Facilities Plan Program, dated May 1983, have been
presented to and certified by the Board of Directors of the
South Tahoe Public Utility District.
(3) The Final Environmental Impact Report, the Final
Environmental Impact Statement and the Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Report identified potentially signifi-
cant impacts of the project on water resources and water
quality, geology and soils, biology, noise, meteorology
and air quality, visual resources, land use and housing,
transportation, recreation, public services/fiscal concerns,
utilities, cultural, archeological and historical resources,
Carson Valley and thresholds, public health, hydrology,
wildlife and vegetation, land use, aesthetic and cultural
resources.
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(4) The South Tahoe Public Utility District finds
that changes and alterations in the project which mitigate
or avoid significant environmental impacts have been ordered
as follows:
(A) The changes set forth in Mitigation Measures
Summary attachment to Table 1 of said Final Environmental
Impact Report for Alternative for Project 3b, incorporated
herein by reference, will be incorporated in the construction
contract documents to mitigate the construction impacts.
(B) An Operational manual is required to be approved
and implemented by the California State Water Resources Con-
trol Board and the Environmental Protection Agency to incor-
porate changes required to mitigate the operational impacts
described in the Mitigation Measures Summary attachment to
Table 1 of said Final Environmental Impact Report for Altern-
ative for Project 3b, incorporated herein by reference.
(C) The Planned Mitigation Measures - Design Changes
set forth in the Summary of Potential Significant Impacts and
Planned Mitigation Measures in the Final Supplemental Environ-
mental Impact Report, incorporated herein by reference, will
be required by an amended contract between South Tahoe Public
Utility District, Alpine County, and Alpine County Water
Agency, by waste discharge requirements of the Lahontan Regional
Water Quality Control Board and by the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency and the State Water Resource Control Board grant
contract conditions necessary to finance the project.
(D) A mitigation program has been adopted by the
South Tahoe Public Utility District for the required mitiga-
tion measures set forth in Table 1-3 of Status Report 4
Mitigation Program, February 1983, incorporated herein by
reference, which mitigation measures are directed at offsetting
the environmental impacts of 8.7 MGD wastewater treatment
facilities and satisfactory mitigation progress required to
offset said significant impacts has been acknowledged to date
and is required as a grant condition for financing the project.
(E) The District has assumed responsibility insofar
as any construction, maintenance and operation for those re-
quired mitigation measures Nos. 8, 129 33, 430 679 709 779
789 799 80, 85, 86, 87 and 88 as set forth in said Table 1-3.
(F) The District has assumed the responsibility of
achieving satisfactory progress toward implementation of the
said mitigation program.
(5) The South Tahoe Public Utility District hereby
finds that changes have been required in the project after
certification of the Final Environmental Impact Report, the
Final Environmental Impact Statement and Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Report for said project to avoid or to
reduce to an acceptable level significant effects identified
in said Reports and Statement for said project which changes
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are within the responsibility and jurisdiction of other
public agencies who have, can and should adopt such changes
for construction, maintenance and operation of those re-
quired mitigation measures for said other public agencies as
set forth in said Table 1-3 of said Status Report 4, Mitiga-
tion Program, February 1983, as administered by the South
Lake Tahoe Mitigation Task Force and reviewed by the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, State Water Resources Control
Board, California Air Resources Board, California Office of
Planning and Research, and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
(6) The South Tahoe Public Utility District finds:
(A) There may be some unavoidable environmental
risks for a limited period or periods of time if one or more
of the public agencies with responsibility and jurisdiction
for implementing impact mitigation measures identified in
South Tahoe Public Utility District Mitigation Program set
forth in Table 1-3 of Status Report 4 Mitigation Program,
February 1983, incorporated herein by reference, are unable
to timely implement the measures within their responsibility
and jurisdiction for an interim period due to unforeseen
changes in circumstances.
(B) However, the benefit of the proposed project in
terms of reliability of treatment and disposal of wastewater
and subsequently protection of the beneficial uses of Lake
Tahoe from discharges of partially treated sewage outweigh
any unavoidable environmental risks described above that could
be associated with interim delay in implementation of impact
mitigation measures outside the jurisdiction and responsi-
bility of District.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular adjourned meeting of the
Board of Directors of the SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
held on the 12th day of MAY 1983, by the following vote:
AYES: Directors Kashuba, Olsen, Jones, Wynn and Madden.
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
J R. JONES,, SIDENT
H TAHOE PU C UTILITY DISTRICT
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MARY D. OSE, CLERK OF BOARD
SOUTH HOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct
copy of RESOLUTION NO. 2293 duly and regularly adopted by the
Board of Directors of the SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT,
E1 Dorado County, State of California, on MAY 129 1983.
DATED: May 12, 1983
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MAR D. AMBROSE, C RK OF BOARD
SOUTH T HOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
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