Documentation

The primary record: consent decrees, court filings, permits, environmental reports and the submissions we made to the agencies that authorized removal.

TLRP Agency Submission · Dec 31, 2025Final Removal ConsiderationsTLRP's submission to the permitting agencies on completing the removal: the cable that remained under Baldwin Beach and in Tallac Creek after the November 2024 work in the water.Read
TLRP Agency Submission · Sep 30, 2025Project Execution ConsiderationsTLRP's submission to the permitting agencies on the practical considerations for carrying out the cable removal.Read
Courtlistener · Nov 7, 2024Final Consent DecreeAmended final consent decree in CSPA v. Pacific Bell (E.D. Cal.), filed November 7, 2024 (court entry 165), under which AT&T removed the cables from Lake Tahoe. The copy hosted here is the decree as filed; see CourtListener for the court docket.Read
Courtlistener · Sep 18, 2024AT&T Scientific Expert ExhibitsStatement filed September 18, 2024 in CSPA v. Pacific Bell (E.D. Cal.) with the exhibits from AT&T's scientific experts on the cables and lead in the lake, filed alongside the new consent decree.View source
TLRP Agency Submission · May 18, 2024Getting the Lead OutTLRP's May 2024 submission to the agencies whose authorization was needed to remove the cables, setting out the community's case for removal and its proposed approach.Read
Courtlistener · Aug 18, 2023AT&T Environmental ReportExhibit filed with AT&T's August 2023 status report in CSPA v. Pacific Bell (E.D. Cal.): the environmental report AT&T commissioned on the Lake Tahoe cables after it paused removal.View source
Courtlistener · Jul 19, 2023AT&T WithdrawalStatus report filed July 19, 2023 in CSPA v. Pacific Bell (E.D. Cal.), in which AT&T withdrew from the cable removal it had agreed to under the 2021 consent decree.View source
EDF · Jul 1, 2023Lead Cable InvestigationJune 2023 field investigation by Marine Taxonomic Services and Below the Blue for the Environmental Defense Fund, sampling water, sediment and cable at lead-sheathed telecom cable sites in nine states, including the Lake Tahoe and Emerald Bay cables.View source
Courtlistener · Jun 3, 2023Permits ReceivedStatus report filed June 2023 in CSPA v. Pacific Bell (E.D. Cal.) reporting that AT&T had received the permits needed to remove the cables.View source
Lake Tahoe Info · Mar 9, 2023TRPA PermitsTRPA permit documents for AT&T's cable removal (record ERSP2022-1690): the permit, application, environmental checklist, drawings and survey reports. TRPA has removed the record from its public permit site; our saved copies are hosted here.Read
CA SLC · Feb 28, 2023CA State Lands Staff Report 29Staff report for the California State Lands Commission's February 28, 2023 meeting, recommending amendment of AT&T's 1955 lakebed lease (PRC 1579) to authorize full removal of the cables between Rubicon Bay and Baldwin Beach and restoration of the lease area.View source
CEQA · Oct 27, 2022CEQA ExemptionNotice of Exemption filed by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (SCH 2022100573), finding removal of two lengths of discontinued submarine telecommunications cable in Lake Tahoe and Emerald Bay categorically exempt from CEQA under Class 30.View source
Courtlistener · Nov 6, 2021Initial Consent DecreeCourt order entered in November 2021 in CSPA v. Pacific Bell (E.D. Cal.) approving the amended consent decree between AT&T and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, which first committed AT&T to removing the cables.Read
CA Attorney General (Prop 65) · August 2021Proposed Consent Decree (August 2021)Proposed consent decree in CSPA v. Pacific Bell (E.D. Cal.), with blank signature lines dated August 2021, from the CA Attorney General's Prop 65 records.Read