This is a meeting of the Bacteria Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). This initial meeting of the TAC will provide a general background and overview of the Department’s proposed concept. As noted previously, the intent of this effort is to comprehensively revise fecal indicator bacteria surface water quality criteria and the associated impaired water methodologies, establish a methodology that derives individual fecal indicator bacteria Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL), and establish appropriate restoration actions to implement the TMDL based on source tracking information.