How quickly the first portion of 1996 has vanished! Seems like just a short time ago that the GRA Board of Directors met to discuss our 1996 Budget and forth coming events. A lot has happened within these past few months that are worthy of note and require some commendations.

• GRA develops a Web Page on the Internet! Special thanks to Jim Graham (GRA Executive Director), Kent Parrish (State Vice President), Tom Mohr (Sacramento Branch President), and all other individuals who helped design the page. Our Web Page is currently in the preliminary stages, but ultimately, we see it as a mechanism to keep our membership abreast of upcoming events, topics of interest, and membership information. We also see the Web Page as a way for our membership to provide comments to us. Our objective will be to encourage bulletin board exchanges for our membership. We are exploring Web Page advertisements from groundwater suppliers to defray the costs for updating the page. Our internet address is http://www.cwo.com/~gra.
• GRA issued a preliminary review draft of the USEPA Grant Groundwater Basin Management Guidance Document. Special thanks to Anthony Saracino, Carl Hauge, Steve Bachman and Kevin Neese for their efforts in preparing this document. Thank you to all those individuals who took time to provide constructive comments. Review comments for this document are currently being incorporated and a final document is expected later this year.
• GRA has become a member of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) and Anthony Saracino has been appointed to the Groundwater Committee as GRA’s representative. As members of ACWA, GRA members will be eligible for member discounts at ACWA functions and events. Anthony Saracino recently represented GRA at ACWA’s Spring Conference in Monterey. Anthony provided an overview of the USEPA Grant Groundwater Basin Management Guidance Document. Be looking for an overview on the conference and Anthony’s presentation in the next issue of Hydrovisions.
• GRA’s Technical Committee is preparing a technical response to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) report. See our survey contained in this issue of Hydrovisions. Please take the time to respond to this survey so that we can appropriately represent you.
• GRA’s Fifth Annual Meeting is scheduled for October 10 and 11, 1996 at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Costa Mesa, California (in southern California, near Newport Beach, Anaheim, and John Wayne Airport). Our theme for this meeting is Multi-Disciplinary Solutions to California’s Groundwater Issues. Be looking forward to such topics as Proposed Revisions to the Clean Water Act (such as arsenic standards); Reclaimed Water Issues; Effective Implementation of MTBE Policy—Implications on the Groundwater Industry; Superfund Updates; and much more. Our Call For Papers was sent out earlier this year. We currently are still accepting abstracts. Individuals interested in speaking or exhibiting at the Annual Meeting should contact me at (714)444-5515.
• Our annual training seminar is tentatively scheduled for November 1996. Please contact Brian Lewis for additional information.
• Our 1997 Annual Meeting will be in San Francisco. The meeting is currently being planned. Individuals interested in helping organize this event should contact Anthony Saracino.
• GRA is planning a retreat in 1997 to discuss our five year and ten year goals for the organization. Individuals interested in organizing this event should contact David von Aspern.
• The California Groundwater Map jointly developed by GRA and the Water Education Foundation is currently available from the Water Education Foundation at (916)444-6240.
• Hydrovisions new editor is Jim Graham. Individuals interested in submitting technical articles should contact Jim at (916)444-1380.

I hope this overview of GRA’s recent accomplishments and future plans helps members appreciate the use of their annual membership fee. Please feel free to comment on this article or other items of interest via e-mail. My internet address is 73661.1162@compuserve.com.