Draft Revised Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement

Description

In December 2024, the Chesapeake Executive Council directed the Principals’ Staff Committee to revise the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement and propose a simplified and streamlined structure and process for the Chesapeake Bay Program. While structure and process revisions are ongoing, the partnership has evaluated the Watershed Agreement’s current goals and outcomes based on the latest policy, community needs, best available science, emerging threats and new opportunities. Working with the Principals’ Staff Committee, Management Board and subject matter experts, the 10 goals and 31 outcomes of the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement were consolidated, reduced, updated, removed, replaced or revised to create the proposed four goals and 21 outcomes presented in this document, the draft Revised 2025 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.