Policy and Program Re commendations for the Chesapeake Bay 1983
- Published:
- August 1, 1983
- Originator:
- Chesapeake Bay Program
This report fulfills the last of the assignmen ts given to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by Congress in 1976 when funds were apprpriated to establish the Chesapeake Bay Program. The final Congressional directive asked for specific recommentations on what actions should be taken by EPA and the state and local authorities in the Bay region to address the Chesapeake Bay's water quality problems and losses of living resources analyzed by the Bay Program's intensive scientific study of the declining health of the estuary.