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2. The PARTIES agree that BACWA will be listed as the entity submitting the authorization and appropriation requests to members of Congress and that BACWA support of PARTICIPATING AGENCY legislative efforts may include review of and signature on letters of support drafted by PARTICIPATING AGENCIES, and attending hearings and /or meetings with congressional representatives and their staff. BACWA will bill the PARTICIPATING AGENCIES for the costs it incurs for these activities ( "BACWA Administrative Costs ") and the PARTICIPATING AGENCIES agree to be individually liable for such BACWA Administrative Costs as provided in Section VI, below. Any documents BACWA requests from a PARTICIPATING AGENCY to support its legislative role will be prepared by the respective PARTICIPATING AGENCY at its own expense. 3. The PARTIES agree that all appropriations requests pursuant to this AGREEMENT shall include language directing USBR to enter into grant agreements with the PARTICIPATING AGENCIES for reimbursement of all eligible costs of the projects designated in the Appropriations Request List developed by the PARTICIPATING AGENCIES pursuant to Section V of this AGREEMENT, in accordance with the pro rata distribution formula set forth in Section VII below. Any agreement required by USBR shall subject to PARTICIPATING AGENCY accepting the terms thereof. 4. PARTICIPATING AGENCIES agree to provide for their own projects all necessary in kind services including providing background information, project or program descriptions, planning, environmental review, federal feasibility documentation and determination, design, construction and coordination, project or program status reports, meeting attendance, review of documents, Board or Council resolutions (if needed), and any other staff support required to support federal advocacy efforts. BACWA shall have no responsibility for provision of any of these services. 5. PARTICIPATING AGENCIES agree that all recycled water projects for which federal participation is sought through Title XVI that meets the terms of this AGREEMENT shall enjoy the same Bay Area wide legislative priority for funding and authorization regardless of project size or congressional district in which the project is located. 6. Each PARTICIPATING AGENCY is committed to securing or assisting in securing the support of its House of Representatives member(s) to actively advocate on behalf of the Bay Area Recycled Water Coalition approach. Each PARTICIPATING AGENCY will request its House of Representative member(s) to place the Bay Area regional recycled water Title XVI requests as a very high priority in order to support and reward the regional approach, even if the list of projects for any given year does not have a project in his /her district. 7. No later than September 30 of each calendar year, PARTICIPATING AGENCIES will select among themselves one Agency to provide federal advocacy outside consulting service for the forthcoming calendar year, including consultant contract management, facilitation and management of meetings and accounting. All PARTICIPATING AGENCIES shall be considered third party beneficiaries of the outside consultant contract and shall be entitled to receive all copies of consultant's correspondence and reports. The outside consultant shall provide all required lobbying disclosure documentation for each of the PARTICIPATING AGENCIES. Each PARTICIPATING AGENCY agrees to be individually liable for its pro rata share of such consultant costs ( "PARTICIPATING AGENCY OUTSIDE COSTS ") as provided in Section VI, below. IV. DETERMINATION OF PROJECTS FOR AUTHORIZATION REQUESTS 7/21/2008 Page 3