The Conservancy manages programs to help protect Lake Tahoe's water quality and conserve wildlife habitat, watershed areas, and public access on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin. The Conservancy is a primary implementer of the State of California's responsibilities under the Environmental Improvement Program (EIP) for the Lake Tahoe Basin - a 1997 agreement between California, Nevada, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, the federal government, local governments, and various private entities. The EIP is updated periodically to include more refined estimates of projects, modifications in the scope of identified projects, and inclusion of new projects. It is anticipated that a draft of the new EIP will be out by February of 2008 and will be adopted as part of the Tahoe Regional Plan package in early 2009.