The Chesapeake Executive Council was established by the Chesapeake Bay Agreement of 1983. Under the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement, membership changed from cabinet secretaries to the governors of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia; the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; the mayor of the District of Columbia; and the chair of the Chesapeake Bay Commission, a legislative body serving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
The Executive Council meets annually. Its Principals' Staff Committee meets as needed to facilitate communication among the Implementation Committee, the advisory committees (Citizens Advisory Committee, Local Government Advisory Committee and the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee) and the Executive Council.
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Public Agenda for 2012 Executive Council Meeting, Gunston Hall Plantation, Lorton VA
Publication date: October 22, 2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
Nutrient losses from all contributing activities on developed lands account for about one quarter of the excess phosphorus and one eighth of the excess nitrogen loads entering the Chesapeake. Members of the Lawn Care Product...
Publication date: September 14, 1993 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
These action items were developed to further guide program initiatives between the DoD and EPA and reflect current Chesapeake Bay program strategies including the 1992 Amendments to the Chesapeake Bay Agreement. These action items may...
Publication date: June 05, 1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Memorandum of Agreement provides for enhanced cooperation between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Pennsylvania Field Office (PAFO) in State College, Pennsylvania, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) and the U.S....
Publication date: October 22, 2006 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Retaining and expanding forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is critical to our success in restoring the Chesapeake Bay. Forests are the most beneficial land use for protecting water quality, due to their ability to capture, filter...
Publication date: November 20, 2008 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Executive Council issued the Directive: Leading the Nation in Development of a Sustainable Next-Generation Biofuels Industry (08-1). This directive adopts the findings of the Report: Next Generation Biofuels -- Taking the...
Publication date: March 07, 2006 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
An agreement that approves expedited method for handling changes in fishery management plans as warranted.
Publication date: October 18, 2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
The MOU establishes policies, administrative procedures and provides for a cooperative working relationship between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
In December 2003, the Executive Council directed the Chesapeake Bay Program to establish and convene a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue ribbon panel to consider funding sources to implement the tributary strategies basin-wide and to make...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: AgricultureDirective | Download: Electronic Version
Agriculture is a significant source of nutrients entering the Chesapeake Bay, with animal manure and poultry litter contributing about half of the agricultural nutrient load. As animal operations become more concentrated and the acreage...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: SedimentDirective | Download: Electronic Version
This Directive addresses next steps, each of which will advance Tributary Strategy implementation, and identifies measures to implement several Panel recommendations upon which action can be taken quickly.
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: EducationDirective | Download: Electronic Version
This directive outlines environmental education commitments by the Bay Program, departments of education and interagency education groups in each jurisdiction. These groups will report annually to the Department of Education, and...
Publication date: October 22, 2006 | Type of document: AgriculturePolicy Memorandum
The Chesapeake Bay jurisdictions and the Chesapeake Bay commission, respectfully convey this policy agreement to our colleagues in the states and U.S. Congress to stress the critical importance of enhancing support for agricultural...
Publication date: March 07, 2006 | Type of document: AgricultureMOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This resolution urges the Secretary of Agriculture to make the Chesapeake Bay Watershed a priority objective by heightening coordination efforts with other Federal departments and agencies in order to leverage resources available from...
Publication date: November 29, 2005 | Type of document: EducationAgreement | Download: Electronic Version
By this agreement, the Executive Committee members commit themselves to continually work to ensure that students have been exposed to concepts in environmental literacy and have examined strategies to foster their restoration and...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: OystersAdoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
An adoption statement signed by the Executive Council to continue the 2004 Oyster Management Plan. The 2004 Oyster Management Plan provides both a general framework and specific guidance for rebuilding and managing the native oyster,...
Publication date: October 22, 2006 | Type of document: AgriculturePolicy Memorandum
Agriculture is a primary economic sector in the region containing 3.2 percent of the nation's farm acreage, yet producing 5.7 percent of the nation's agricultural receipts and contributing 13 percent of region's Gross Domestic Product....
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: EducationPolicy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay is dependent upon the actions of every citizen in the watershed, both today and in the future. The Bay's future will soon rest in the hands of its youngest citizens. Our students, future Bay leaders, should be armed...
Publication date: October 10, 1996 | Type of document: Forest BuffersAdoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
In past commitments, we agreed to reduce nutrients, to restore habitat, to improve access to thousands of miles of habitat for migratory fish, and to enhance watershed management by developing and implementing tributary-specific...
Publication date: December 08, 2003 | Type of document: Forest BuffersDirective | Download: Electronic Version
We, the members of the Chesapeake Executive Council, hereby reaffirm our commitment to restoring the Chesapeake Bay, in part, by protecting and restoring riparian lands along the watershed’s thousands of miles of stream and shoreline.
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