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Calendar No. 470
114 TH CONGRESSI REPORT
2d Session I SENATE 114-256
LAKE TAHOE RESTORATION ACT OF 2015
MAY 18, 2016.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. INHOFE, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1724]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1724) to provide for environmental restoration
activities and forest management activities in the Lake Tahoe
Basin, and for other purposes, reports favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
Lake Tahoe, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, is the sec-
ond deepest lake in North America and the 10th deepest (1,645 feet
deep) lake in the world. Known for the incredible clarity of its
waters and its scenery, Lake Tahoe is a major tourist and rec-
reational attraction for California and Nevada.
In the 1960s, leaders in California and Nevada approved a bi-
state compact that created a regional planning agency to oversee
development at Lake Tahoe. In 1969, the United States Congress
ratified the agreement and created the Tahoe Regional Planning
Agency (TRPA). The Compact was revised in 1980 to give TRPA
authority to adopt environmental quality standards known as
thresholds and to enforce ordinances to achieve the thresholds. In
1997, TRPA created the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP),
which involved 50 state, federal, and local agencies and included
capital improvement, research, and maintenance projects to restore
Lake clarity and the Basin's environment.
A 1997 Presidential Executive Order created the Lake Tahoe
Federal Interagency Partnership to lead a 10-year clean-up effort.
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