Nevada lawmakers again likely to take up Lake Tahoe compact withdrawal
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 8:11pm
Nevada’s role in the two-state pact forged decades ago to protect Lake Tahoe will be up for discussion again by the 2013 Legislature, with interests on all sides of the debate describing the stakes for the lake’s future as particularly high.
In December, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency met a self-imposed deadline to adopt before the end of 2012 a new regional plan guiding land use around the lake. Lack of such a plan was a primary motivator for Nevada lawmakers who passed a bill in 2011 that could have the state pull out from the bi-state compact with California that established TRPA and guided more than 40 years of environmental restoration efforts around the landmark lake.
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