02-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 26, 1994
Chesapeake Bay Pact Seen As National Model
ANNAPOLIS, Md. A prece
dent-setting pact between the
USDA and the Chesapeake Bay
Program is aimed at ensuring a
broader and more coordinated ap
proach to managing resources,
controlling agricultural runoff,
and reducing nutrients in the
Chesapeake Bay restoration ef
fort.
The agreement targets the
USDA to provide an integrated
approach to environmentally
sound and economically viable
farm management practices in the
Chesapeake Bay watershed states
of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and
Virginia.
The USDA’s approach to agri
cultural management in the
Chesapeake region ultimately will
be incorporated in watershed-bas
ed agricultural efforts throughout
the country.
The pact was signed Tuesday,
Jan. 25, by James Lyons, USDA
assistant secretary for natural re
sources and environment, and
Governor William Donald
Schaefer, of Maryland, for the
Chesapeake Bay Program, at the
winter meeting of the Maryland
Association of Conservation Dis
tricts in Annapolis.
“The Bay Agreement serves as
a model for what we can do in
other places,” said James Lyons.
Through the agreement, members
of the USDA will work closely
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with agricultural agencies in
Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Vir
ginia, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) and the
other federal agencies involved in
the Chesapeake Bay restoration to
better deliver services to farmers.
Schaefer, who serves as the
chairman of the Chesapeake Bay
Program’s policymaking body the
Chesapeake Executive Council,
said reducing the amount of nitro
gen and phosphorus entering the
Bay from farmland was a key to
the USDA-Chesapeake Bay Pro
gram pact “We have to do it fast
er, and we have to do more,”
Schaefer said. The Chesapeake
Bay Program is committed to re
ducing nutrients entering the Bay
by 40 percent by the year 2000.
Nutrients enter the Chesapeake
from many sources, but studies
have shown that agricultural acti
vities, such as crop production and
livestock operations are a chief
source of the Chesapeake Bay’s
nutrient pollution. In 1992, the
Bay Program’s Chesapeake Exe
cutive Council launched the Agri
cultural Nonpoint Source Initia
tive to address the challenges that
farmers face in reducing agricul
tural runoff and nutrient pollution.
The Findings from the initiative
were presented to the Chesapeake
Executive Council a year later, in
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in the Chesapeake Bay restoration
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“ The Bay Agreement strength
ens the team approach,” Lyons
said. “The USDA works very
Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer, seated, left, and James Lyons, USD A
assistant secretary tor natural resources and environment, seated, right, sign the
precedent-setting pact between the USDA and the Chesapeake Bay Program to con
trol agricultural runoff, reduce nutrients, and coordinate the management of re
sources for farmers. On hand tor the signing are, left to right, Robert M. Sussman,
deputy administrator of the U.S. ERA; U.S. Senator Paul S. Sarbanes of Maryland;
and Maryland Secretary of Agriculture Robert L. Walker.
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This approach, Lyons said, will
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