Trading and Offsets Workgroup
The Trading and Offsets Workgroup supports the implementation of practices, policies and programs related to nutrient and sediment trading and offsets.
Meetings
No upcoming meetings.
Trading and Offsets Workgroup Webinar
Trading and Offsets Workgroup Conference Call, December 2021
CANCELLED: Trading and Offsets Workgroup Conference Call, October 2021
About
The charge of the Trading and Offsets Workgroup (TOWG) is to focus and support the implementation of practices, policies, and programs within the realm of nutrient and sediment trading and offsets that will assist efforts to restore water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries. The Workgroup recognizes that trading and offsets may be valuable tools in achieving allocations set forth in the 2010 Chesapeake Bay TMDL, and water quality in general. The Workgroup reports to the Water Quality Goal Implementation Team.
Functions include:
- Provide a forum for discussion, consensus building and exchange of information among federal, state, and local agencies, river basin commissions, industry groups, universities, and other interested parties on nutrient and sediment trading efforts.
- Evaluate and facilitate strategies to effectively exchange nutrient, and sediment loads from municipal, industrial and onsite wastewater, agricultural lands and animal operations, urban and suburban stormwater, forested lands, tidal and in-stream sediment, and air emissions.
- Build consensus on common approaches to calculating, verifying, registering and tracking performance of nutrient and sediment trading and offsets.
Projects
Trading and Offset Workplans
The Trading and Offsets Workgroup (TOWG) and its Chesapeake Bay Program partners collaborate with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to guide federal and state efforts to create trading and offset programs in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. To this end, the TOWG and EPA attempt to coordinate their respective workplans for the coming year and beyond.
Publications
Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (GIT) Governance Protocols
Publication date: Not listedThe decision-making procedures and cross-sector communication processes observed by the Water Quality GIT and its workgroups.
View document [PDF, 176.4 KB] Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (GIT) Governance Protocols
Our Members
- David Foster (Chair)
Phoenix Initiatives jdavidfoster@gmail.com - John Rhoderick (Vice Chair)
Maryland Department of Agriculture JohnCRhoderick@gmail.com - Patricia Gleason (Coordinator)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 3 gleason.patricia@epa.gov - Allan Brockenbrough
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality abrockenbrough@deq.virginia.gov - Beth McGee
Chesapeake Bay Foundation bmcgee@cbf.org - Marya Levelev
Maryland Department of the Environment mlevelev@mde.state.md.us - Roy Hoagland
HOPE Impacts, LLC royhoagland@hopeimpacts.com - Russ Baxter
Virginia Office of Natural Resources russ.baxter@governor.virginia.gov - Teresa Koon
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Teresa.M.Koon@wv.gov - Bob Rose
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water rose.bob@epa.gov - Olivia Devereux
Devereux Environmental Consulting olivia@devereuxconsulting.com - Michael Helfrich
Lower Susquehanna River Keepers Association lowsusriver@hotmail.com - Kimberly Snell-Zarcone
Conservation Pennsylvania kim@conservationpa.org - Dominic Bassani
Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. dbassani@biontech.com - George Onyullo
District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE) george.onyullo@dc.gov - Ginny Snead
The Louis Berger Group, Inc gsnead@louisberger.com - Evan Branosky
District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE) evan.branosky@dc.gov - Susan Frick Payne
Maryland Department of Agriculture susan.payne@maryland.gov - Matt Richardson
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality matthew.richardson@deq.virginia.gov - Mark Hoffman
Chesapeake Bay Commission mhoffman@chesbay.us - Jen Walls
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Jennifer.Walls@state.de.us