Lake Tahoe Partners
Key Partners in the Basin
EPA works in collaboration with the following agencies, organizations, and the Washoe Tribe in the Tahoe Basin.
- California Regional Water Quality Control Board: Lahontan Region
- California Tahoe Conservancy
- Desert Research Institute, Center for Watersheds and Environmental Sustainability
- Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program Project Tracker
- Nevada Division of Environmental Protection: Lake Tahoe Watershed
- Nevada Tahoe Conservation District (NTCD)
- San Francisco Estuary Institute EcoAtlas
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
- Tahoe Resource Conservation District (TRCD)
- Tahoe Transportation District
- UC Davis, Tahoe Environmental Research Center
- US Army Corps of Engineers
- US Bureau of Reclamation: Mid-Pacific Region
- US Bureau of Land Management
- US Department of Transportation: Lake Tahoe Basin
- US Forest Service: Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
- US Forest Service: Pacific Southwest Research Station
- US Fish and Wildlife Service: Pacific Southwest Region
- US Fish and Wildlife Service: Nevada
- US Geological Survey: Tahoe
- Washoe Tribe
Contact and More Information
EPA Lake Tahoe Basin Coordinator:
Dana Michels
michels.dana@epa.gov
(415) 972-3783
More Information
- In 1997 President Bill Clinton committed federal resources to Lake Tahoe.
- In 1998 EPA’s Pacific Southwest Regional Office permanently placed a staff member in the Tahoe Basin to provide technical support.
- EPA also manages funds from the Bureau of Land Management’s Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA) program, oversees the Clean Water Act Section 319 programs for states and tribes, manages wetlands grants, and many other funding sources available for Lake Tahoe programs.