Chesapeake Bay Toxics Reduction Strategy Stakeholder Roundtables 1994
- Published:
- July 1, 1994
- Originator:
- Chesapeake Bay Program
With the direct assistance of the Alliance of Chesapeake Bay, the Chesapeake Bay Program's Toxics Subcommittee sponsored a series of stakeholder roundtables to solicit active public participation in the strategy development. Roundtables were held in Pennsylvania on June 7, in Maryland on June8, and in the District of Columbia on June 14, 1994. Stakeholders representing businesses, agricultural community, public interest groups, and local, regional, state, and federal government agencies, were invited to participate (Apprendix A). Each roundtable was structured to inform targeted stakeholders iin each jurisdiction on the most recent findings regarding the effects of chemical cotaminants on the Chesapeake Bay system and the wide range of reduction and precention management actions beieng directed towards chemical contaminants during a morning session. In addition, facilitated break-out groups provided an open forum for seeking comments on and recommendations for changes to a set of draft revised strategy objectives and commitments.