Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (213 KB)

Publication date: 5/9/2007 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

This document sharpens the focus of the EPA and the USDA to carry out activities to help Chesapeake Bay Program partners meet their nutrient reduction goals. EPA and USDA commit to using their complementary authorities and programs to work cooperatively on nutrient reduction activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Responsibilities for both agencies are explicitly defined.

Memorandum of Understanding among Chesapeake Executive council, Headwater State Jurisdictions and members of the Lawn Care Product Manufacturing Industry (144 KB)

Publication date: 10/22/2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

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 Manufacturing Industry, represented by the The Scotts company LLC, have been working diligently with the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Land Grant Universities of the watershed to develop a scientifically based, environmentally beneficial and economically viable Stewardship Program to reduce nutrient losses from homeowner fertilized lawns.

Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, State College, Pennsylvania, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III (73 KB)

Publication date: 10/18/2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

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. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as partners in the Chesapeake Bay Program.

USDA - Soil Conservation Service Conservation Operations Articles Chesapeake Bay Program (56 KB)

Publication date: 10/18/2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

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 common goals, interests and statutory requirements as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay.

The Department of Defense and Environmental Protection Agency Action Items for the Chesapeake Bay Program (125 KB)

Publication date: 10/18/2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

In April 1990, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a Cooperative Agreement concerning Chesapeake Bay activities. This reconfirmed a policy of coordination and cooperation between DOD and EPA consistent with the goals, objectives and commitments of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.

Resolution to Enhance the Role of the United States Department of Agriculture in the Chesapeake Bay Partnership (463 KB)

Publication date: 3/7/2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

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 Federal programs, such as the Farm Bill, the private sector and the States and that they will utilize, where appropriate, the experience of the Chesapeake Bay Program as Farm Bill rules are developed for programs included in Title 2: Conservation; Title 7: Research; Title 8: Forestry; and Title 9: Energy.

Memorandum of Understanding between the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (96 KB)

Publication date: 7/28/2005 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

This Memorandum of Understanding provides for enhanced cooperation between the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program.

Memorandum of Understanding Between Environmental Science Center and Chesapeake Bay Program Continuity of Operation (COOP) Relocation Site (44 KB)

Publication date: 12/22/2004 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

This memorandum of understanding between the Environmental Science Center and CBP shall provide an emergency relocation site for CBP.

MOU regarding cooperative efforts for Monitoring and Assessing Water Quality in the Streams and Rivers of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (61 KB)

Publication date: 9/23/2004 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

Representatives from the District, state, interstate and Federal entities with responsibility for the quality of the waters flowing through the creeks, streams and rivers of the Chesapeake Bay agree to cooperative efforts for monitoring and assessing water quality in the Streams and Rivers of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Memorandum of Understanding regarding cooperative efforts for the protection of the Chesapeake Bay and Its Rivers (93 KB)

Publication date: 10/31/2002 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

MOU among the State of Delware, the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, the State of New York, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of West Virginia, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency regarding Cooperative Efforts for the Protection of the Chesapeake Bay and Its Rivers.

Memorandum of Understanding among the State of Delaware, the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, the State of New York, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of West Virginia, and the United States EPA (93 KB)

Publication date: 10/1/2000 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

MOU regarding cooperative efforts for the protection of the Chesapeake Bay and it's rivers

Memorandum of Agreement Between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (13 KB) (Order hard-copy)

Publication date: 1/1/1998 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

This Agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating cooperation between the NASA and EPA in order to heighten the awareness of each agency's activities with the objective of improving the environmental condition of the Chesapeake watershed

Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States Postal Service and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (32 KB)

Publication date: 11/15/1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

This MOU serves to enhance the coordination between the United States Postal Districts located in the states of Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Statement of Cooperation Regarding Use and Placement of Dredged Material in the Maryland Portion of the Chesapeake Bay (89 KB)

Publication date: 9/5/1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

This Agreement was created to support the State of Maryland's efforts to identify a long-term economically and environmentally sound dredged material placement plan, in accordance with Federal and State laws.

Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, State College, Pennsylvania, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III (73 KB)

Publication date: 6/5/1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

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. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as partners in the Chesapeake Bay Program.

Memorandum of Understanding to Clarify the Mutual Commitment and Cooperation, as well as Enhanced Coordination and Communication Efforts Designed to Restore and Protect the Anacostia Watershed and Its Tributaries (80 KB)

Publication date: 5/7/1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

As a result of continued need for environmental protection and restoration, in 1987 the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, Montgomery County and Prince George's County signed an agreement to restore the Anacostia Watershed. 

Memorandum of Agreement on Little Falls Dam Fish Passage (105 KB)

Publication date: 1/1/1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

This MOA establishes a general framework for cooperation and participation among the MD DNR, the VA Dept of Game and Inland fisheries, District of Columbia, ICPRB, the Potomac River Fisheries Commission, the U.S., Army corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the national Biological Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Park Service, the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, and Montgomery county, MD in reestablishing migratory and anadromous fish access and restoring a migratory fish population in an historic spawning spawning habitat upstream of Little Falls Dam on the Potomac River in Montgomery County, MD. collectively, the parties to the ...

Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service and National Biological Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. Wetlands Partnership in the Chesapeake Bay Region. (226 KB)

Publication date: 7/5/1995 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to sanction the wetlands partnership among the Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) Chesapeake Bay Field Office (CBFO_ and National Biological Service's (NBS) Patuxent Environmental Science Center (PESC) in the U.S. Department of Interior and the Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS) Wetland Science Institute (WSI) and Maryland State Office (MSO) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This MOU provides for coordination of efforts of the NBS and NRCS in serving the scientific needs of resource managers in the Chesapeake Bay Region.

Memorandum of Agreement Between the United States Department of Agriculture and The Chesapeake Bay Executive Council (31 KB)

Publication date: 1/25/1994 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

Outlines actions to be implemented by the Chesapeake Bay Program with the partnership of the Department of Agriculture, state and local governments, the environmental and agricultural communities, the private sector and other Federal agencies.

Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service Mid-Atlantic and National Capital Regions and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region III (85 KB)

Publication date: 10/29/1993 | Type of document: MOU/MOA

This agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of information between agencies and to heighten the awareness and cooperation of the individual activities of the federal and state agencies responsible for the implementation of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.