Published:
February 1, 1998
Originator:
Chesapeake Bay Program

This Clean Water Action Plan provides a blueprint for restoring and protecting the nation's precious water resources. The Action Plan provides a blueprint for restoring and protecting the nation's precious water resources. The Action Plan builds on the Clinton Administration's accomplishments over the past five years and proposed aggressive new actions to strengthen the program A key element in the Action Plan is a new cooperative approach to watershed protection in which state, tribal, federal and local governmen ts, and the public first identify the watersheds with the most critical water quality problems and then work together to focus resources and implement effective strategies to solve those problems. This Action Plan also iincludes new initiatives to recuce public health threats, improve the stewardship of natural resources, strengthen polluted runoff controls, and make water quality information more accessible to the public.

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