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The jurisdic tions and governmental bodies represented in the Executive Council lead the cooperative Chesapeake Bay Program. Council members also se lected Mayor Williams to serve as chair of the Executive Coun cil for the next year. Gov. Glen dening has served as chair since 1997. Chesapeake 2000: A Watershed Partnership is the most comprehensive and far reaching agreement in the Bay Program’s history. The primary goal of the new agreement is to improve water quality suffi ciently to sustain the living re sources of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries and to maintain that water quality into the future. This will mean set ting increased nutrient reduc tion goals and for the first time setting sediment reduction goals r Baywide. Meeting these water quality standards by 2010 will preclude the need for regulatory mea sures slated to begin in 2011. 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