Chesapeake Bay Watershed Assistance Network Access to Federal Funds
- Published:
- March 1, 2007
- Originator:
- Chesapeake Bay Program
In its 2005 Directive, "Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Goals-Next steps", the first Chesapeake Bay Federal Principals meeting was held on October 7, 2005. At that meeting, high level federal representatives, supported by the Chesapeake Bay Program's Federa Agencies Committee (FAC), confirmed their willingness to join the Network by signing the Resolution to Enhance Federal Cooperative Conservation in the Chesapeake Program. In the Resolution the federal agencagreed to cooperate with the Network to "provide resource managers, local governments, watershed associations and landowners with more effective access to appropriate programs of Federal and State agencies, in order to accelerate the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries."