[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 148 (Friday, August 1, 1997)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 41249-41250]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20497]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 148 / Friday, August 1, 1997 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13057 of July 26, 1997
Federal Actions in the Lake Tahoe Region
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to ensure that Federal agency
actions protect the extraordinary natural,
recreational, and ecological resources in the Lake
Tahoe Region (``Region'') (as defined by Public Law 91-
148), an area of national concern, it is hereby ordered
as follows:
Section 1. Tahoe Federal Interagency Partnership.
1-101. The Federal agencies and departments having
principal management or jurisdictional authorities in
the Lake Tahoe Region are directed to establish a
Federal Interagency Partnership on the Lake Tahoe
Ecosystem (``Partnership'').
1-102. Members of the Partnership shall include the
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the
Interior, the Secretary of Transportation, the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,
the Secretary of the Army, and the heads of any other
Federal agencies operating in the Region that choose to
participate. Representation on the Partnership may be
delegated. The Partnership shall be chaired by the
Secretary of Agriculture for the first year after its
establishment. The Chair of the Partnership shall
thereafter be rotated among the members on an annual
basis.
1-103. The Partnership will:
(a) facilitate coordination of Federal programs,
projects, and activities within the Lake Tahoe Region
and promotion of consistent policies and strategies to
address the Region's environmental and economic
concerns;
(b) encourage Federal agencies within the Region
to coordinate and share resources and data, avoid
unnecessary duplication of Federal efforts, and
eliminate inefficiencies in Federal action to the
greatest extent feasible;
(c) ensure that Federal agencies closely
coordinate with the States of California and Nevada and
appropriate tribal or local government entities to
facilitate the achievement of desired terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystem conditions and the enhancement of
recreation, tourism, and other economic opportunities
within the Region;
(d) support appropriate regional programs and
studies needed to attain environmental threshold
standards for water quality, transportation, air
quality, vegetation, soils (stream environment zone
restoration), wildlife habitat, fish habitat, scenic
resources, recreation, and noise;
(e) encourage the development of appropriate
public, private, and tribal partnerships for the
restoration and management of the Lake Tahoe ecosystem
and the health of the local economy;
(f) support appropriate actions to improve the
water quality of Lake Tahoe through all appropriate
means, including restoration of shorelines, streams,
riparian zones, wetlands, and other parts of the
watershed; management of uses of the lake; and control
of airborne and other sources of contaminants;
(g) encourage the development of appropriate
vegetative management actions necessary to attain a
healthy Lake Tahoe ecosystem, including a program of
revegetation, road maintenance, obliteration, and
promotion of forest health;
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(h) support appropriate regional transportation
and air quality goals, programs, and studies for the
Region;
(i) support appropriate fisheries and wildlife
habitat restoration programs for the Region, including
programs for endangered species and uncommon species;
(j) facilitate coordination of research and
monitoring activities for purposes of developing a
common natural resources data base and geographic
information system capability, in cooperation with
appropriate regional and local colleges and
universities;
(k) support development of and communication about
appropriate recreation plans and programs, appropriate
scenic quality improvement programs, and recognition
for traditional Washoe tribal uses;
(l) support regional partnership efforts to inform
the public of the values of managing the Lake Tahoe
Region to achieve environmental and economic goals;
(m) explore opportunities for public involvement
in achieving its activities; and
(n) explore opportunities for assisting regional
governments in their efforts.
1-104. The Partnership will report back to the
President in 90 days on the implementation of the terms
of this order.
Sec. 2. Memorandum of Agreement.
2-201. The Partnership shall negotiate a Memorandum of
Agreement with the States of California and Nevada, the
Washoe Tribal Government, the Tahoe Regional Planning
Agency, and interested local governments.
2-202. The Memorandum of Agreement shall be designed to
facilitate coordination among the parties to the
Agreement, and shall document areas of mutual interest
and concern and opportunities for cooperation, support,
or assistance.
Sec. 3. General Provisions.
3-301. The Chair of the Partnership shall advise the
President on the implementation of this order. The
Chair may recommend other administrative actions that
may be taken to improve the coordination of agency
actions and decisions whenever such coordination would
protect and enhance the Region's natural, ecological,
and economic values.
3-302. Nothing in this order shall be construed to
limit, delay, or prohibit any agency action that is
essential for the protection of public health or
safety, for national security, or for the maintenance
or rehabilitation of environmental quality within the
Region.
3-303. Nothing in this order is intended to create, and
this order does not create, any right to administrative
or judicial review, or any other right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable by a party
against the United States, its agencies or
instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 26, 1997.
[FR Doc. 97-20497
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