Directive 04-2: Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals: Next Steps
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.
Authors
- Chesapeake Bay Program
Description
In its 2003 directive, “Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals,” the Chesapeake Executive Council reaffirmed its pledge to achieve the Chesapeake 2000 commitment to, “By 2010, correct the nutrient- and sediment-related problems in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries sufficiently to remove the Bay and the tidal portions of its tributaries from the list of impaired waters under the Clean Water Act.” Directive No. 04-1 also directed the Chesapeake Bay Program to convene a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Panel to identify funding sources for implementing tributary strategies, and to convene a committee to develop a proposal for a central recommendation to create a Chesapeake Bay Financing Authority. This directive, No. 04-2, addresses next steps to advance Tributary Strategy implementation. It also asks each Chesapeake Bay signatory and headwater state to review the full breadth of the Blue Ribbon Panel recommendations and determine those whose implementation would be beneficial in their jurisdictions.
Category: Directive