EXECUTIVE
ORDER		 EO 13057
Effective Date: July 26, 1997
Responsible Office: Office of Management Systems
Subject: 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;

        (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 o 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
                                                /s/

THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 26, 1997. 



	
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