[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 31 (Monday, August 4, 1997)]
[Pages 1138-1139]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13057--Federal Actions in the Lake Tahoe Region

July 26, 1997

    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;
    (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

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      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.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
July 26, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 31, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
August 1.