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Directive 93-2: Toxics Reduction Strategy Reevaluation
Publication date:This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to revise the 1989 Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy.
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Directive 98-3: Accelerating Bay Restoration Through Implementation of Innovative Technologies
Publication date:This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to accelerate the deployment of innovative technologies to support restoration and protection needs.
Directive 98-4: Interstate Animal Waste Distribution and Use Technology
Publication date:This directive seeks to improve the management of and reduce the potential for nutrient loadings from animal wastes in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
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Directive 97-1: Baywide Nutrient Reduction Progress and Future Directions
Publication date:This directive reaffirms the Chesapeake Bay Program’s commitment to its nitrogen and phosphorus goals, calls for accelerated pollution reduction efforts and supports the continued refinement of monitoring and modeling of the Bay and its watershed.
Directive 98-2: Chesapeake 2000
Publication date:This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to convene and manage an effort that will lead to the adoption of a Year 2000 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
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Directive 04-1: Funding the Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Publication date:This directive urges the Principals’ Staff Committee to convene a committee of federal, state and regional finance and legal experts to provide a specific proposal for the establishment of a Chesapeake Bay Financing Authority.
Directive 06-1: Protecting the Forests of the Chesapeake Watershed
Publication date:This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to developing a forest conservation goal, using the best available tools to identify critical conservation areas and identifying innovative strategies to ensure the protection of these important forest lands, slow forest loss and enhance needed stewardship.
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Directive 93-5: Agriculture Nonpoint Source Initiative
Publication date:This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to assist farmers to develop and implement comprehensive and integrated total resource management plans.
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Directive 04-3: Building New Partnerships and New Markets for Agricultural Animal Manure and Poultry
Publication date:This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to reduce nutrient pollution from animal manure and poultry litter.
Directive 04-2: Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals: Next Steps
Publication date:This directive addresses next steps to advance Tributary Strategy implementation, and asks each Chesapeake Bay signatory and headwater state to review the full breadth of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Panel recommendations and determine those whose implementation would be beneficial in their jurisdictions.