Chesapeake Watershed Education Agreement – Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship (Signed) (67 KB) (Order hard-copy)

Publication date: 11/29/2005 | Type of document: Agreement

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 protection.

Resolution to Enhance Federal Cooperative Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay Program (99 KB)

Publication date: 10/7/2005 | Type of document: Agreement

A resolution to enhance Federal Cooperative Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay Program. In August 2004, the President issued an Executive Order to federal agencies that oversee environmental and natural resource policies and programs to promote cooperative conservation in collaboration with states, local governments, tribes and individuals.

Toxics 2000 Strategy: A Chesapeake Bay Watershed Strategy for Chemical Contamination Reduction, Prevention and Assessment (99 KB)

Publication date: 12/1/2000 | Type of document: Agreement

This strategy commits to voluntary efforts that build on the successes of the state and federal regulatory programs and go beyond compliance /existing regulatory point and nonpoint source programs to preclude the need for costly regulations and remediation in the future

Chesapeake 2000 Agreement (94 KB) (Order hard-copy)

Publication date: 6/28/2000 | Type of document: Agreement

By this agreement, the Executive Committee members commit themselves to nurture and sustain a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Partnership and to achieve the goals set both in the subsequent sections. Without such a partnership, future challenges will not be met. With it, the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay will be ensured for generations to come.

Potomac American Heritage River Watershed Agreement (35 KB)

Publication date: 8/25/1999 | Type of document: Agreement

The President's 1997 initiative to support communities in their efforts to restore and protect America's rivers brought together 22 agencies and departments that became Federal Agency partners of the Chesapeake Bay Program.

Federal Agencies' Chesapeake Ecosystem Unified Plan Agreement (447 KB)

Publication date: 11/5/1998 | Type of document: Agreement

Building upon the Clean Water Action Plan, 15 agencies dedicated to enhancing stewardship on Federally-managed public lands are signatories to this Plan, which outlines new opportunities to support the needs of priority watersheds, particularly those states designated under the Clean Water Action Plan.

Special Tributary Strategy for Federal Lands in the District of Columbia (147 KB)

Publication date: 3/25/1996 | Type of document: Agreement

The goal of the Special Strategy is to reduce the amount of nutrients, principally nitrogen and phosphorus, entering the tributaries of Chesapeake Bay.  The Chesapeake Bay Program jurisdictions of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.

Federal Agencies on Ecosystems Management in the Chesapeake Bay (95 KB) (Order hard-copy)

Publication date: 7/14/1994 | Type of document: Agreement

Representatives of the participating Federal agencies, commit to managing the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a cohesive ecosystem, and recommit to working together and with the states and other parties to achieve the goals of the Chesapeake Bay Agreement

Chesapeake Bay Agreement - 1992 Amendments (15 KB)

Publication date: 8/12/1992 | Type of document: Agreement

Overview of amendments to 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.

Interagency Agreement Between USDA-Forest Service and Environmental Protection Agency (68 KB)

Publication date: 1/1/1988 | Type of document: Agreement

This agreement is amplify the January 1988 Memorandum of Understanding between the USDA-forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, as it pertains to providing technical services to State Foresters and other cooperators for the purpose of reducing non-point source pollution addressed in the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.

Chesapeake Bay Agreement - 1987 (428 KB)

Publication date: 12/15/1987 | Type of document: Agreement

Overview of goals and Priority Commitments for Living Resources; Water Quality; Population Growth and Development; Public Information; Education and Participation; Public Access; and Governance.

Chesapeake Bay Agreement - 1983 (40 KB)

Publication date: 12/9/1983 | Type of document: Agreement

Overview of actions agreed upon by the signatories to assess and oversee the implementation of coordinated plans to improve and protect the water quality and living resources of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine system, as the newly formed Chesapeake Executive Council.