Publications

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.

View document [PDF, 229.9 KB] Directive 04-2: Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals: Next Steps

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to develop strategies to protect and restore wetlands.

View document [PDF, 15.9 KB] Directive 97-2: Wetlands Protection and Restoration Goals

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to engaging state Departments of Education, supporting interagency education groups in each Chesapeake Bay jurisdiction, convening biennial Education Summits, and reorganizing the Bay Program’s Communications Subcommittee to coordinate education and communications efforts.

View document [PDF, 16.1 KB] Directive 98-1: Chesapeake Bay Program Education Initiative

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to convene a panel to consider funding sources to implement tributary strategies basin-wide.

View document [PDF, 96.2 KB] Directive 03-2: Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to demonstrate how to develop, fund and implement innovative storm water management approaches and technologies on state, federal and District-owned lands and facilities.

View document [PDF, 80.2 KB] Directive 01-1: Managing Storm Water on State, Federal and District-owned Lands and Facilities

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to develop reciprocal certification programs for nutrient management professionals and explore similar certification for other resource management components.

View document [PDF, 25.8 KB] Directive 94-2: Reciprocal Agricultural Certification Program

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to recognize the value of riparian areas in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and develop a policy to enhance the maintenance, restoration and stewardship of this valuable resource.

View document [PDF, 16.4 KB] Directive 94-1: Riparian Forest Buffers

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to expanding its riparian forest buffer and urban tree canopy goals.

View document [PDF, 53.9 KB] Directive 03-1: Expanded Riparian Forest Buffer Goals

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to a ten-year target of opening 1,356.75 miles of fish spawning habitat along major Chesapeake Bay tributaries.

View document [PDF, 13.9 KB] Directive 93-4: Fish Passage Goals