Directive 93-5: Agriculture Nonpoint Source Initiative

Description

Directive No. 93-5 commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to encourage nutrient reductions from agricultural lands by assisting farmers to develop and implement comprehensive and integrated site-specific management of land, water and ecological resources (total resource management plans). It also commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to: (1) Assist state and federal agencies to develop and implement total resource management planning programs in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia to support the efforts of farmers to initiate and implement total resource management plans. (2) Continue the 1992 Agricultural Nonpoint Source Initiative Steering Committee for another year as a senior-level advisory group to the signatories on issues related to the development and implementation of total resource management planning and other agricultural nonpoint source issues. (3) Broaden and increase representation and participation in the development and review of proposed agriculture-related policies, plans, strategies and programs; the implementation of total resource management planning programs; and the evaluation of the implementation of such policies, plans, strategies and programs.