The Best Management Practices (BMP) Verification Committee is charged with responsibility for developing all the elements of a basinwide BMP verification framework— BMP verification principles, protocols, review panel, and other verification related procedures (e.g., eliminating double counting, clean up of historical databases)—working in tandem with the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership's pollutant source sector and habitat restoration workgroups.
The BMP Verification Framework includes:
Goals and Priorities
Priority work tasks include the following:
Maryland, New York, Virginia and West Virginia as well as the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) currently have signed 1619 data sharing agreements with U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Farm Services Agency (FSA). As part of the collaborative work on larger BMP Verification Framework, the jurisdictional partners are working closely with NRCS and FSA to ensure all six states have consistent, comprehensive data sharing agreements in place. The objective is to ensure each jurisdiction has equal and full access to all federally cost shared data needed to fully credit producers for their implementation conservation practices. These agreements ensure that full access to data while maintaining the business confidentiality of the individual producers information and data. The USGS’s 1619 data sharing agreements with NRCS and FSA were put into place to assist the six states in: getting full access to the federal cost shared data; enhancing their existing tracking and reporting systems; and developing and fully implementing procedures to eliminate any double counting of individual practices funded by two (or more) state/federal cost share programs.
These are the current versions of the draft BMP verification protocols being developed by the four source sector workgroups under the Water Quality GIT -- Agriculture, Forestry, Urban Stormwater, and Wastewater Treatment -- and two workgroups under the Habitat Restoration GIT -- Streams and Wetlands. These draft protocols represent the most recent version that has been shared or discussed with the BMP Verification Committee or BMP Verification Review Panel and do not necessarily reflect the current opinion of the respective workgroup. These documents will be updated periodically as the workgroups make revisions. Please contact Jeremy Hanson (jhanson@chesapeakebay.net) with questions.
To view the most recent version of the Scenario Builder documentation, go here: http://www.chesapeakebay.net/publications/title/documentation_for_scenario_builder
Publication date: December 06, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Developed by the BMP Verification Committee and Water Quality Goal Implementation Team, these principles were adopted by the Principals' Staff Committee to guide the jurisdictions’ development and implementation of BMP verification...
