New Chesapeake Bay Agreement Signed
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HAVEN, Md. The Chesa
peake Executive Council re
cently signed a new agreement
that will guide the next decade
of restoration in the Chesapeake
Bay watershed. The agreement
contains commitments that will
improve water quality and pro
tect living resources in the Bay
and its tributaries. It will also
remove the Bay from the federal
list of impaired waters by 2010.
This action by the Executive
Council Maryland Governor
Parris N. Glendening; Pennsyl
vania Governor Thomas J.
Ridge; Virginia Governor James
S. Gilmore, 111.; District of Co
lumbia Mayor Anthony A. Wil
liams; U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Administra
tor Carol M. Browner; and
Chesapeake Bay Commission
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new agreement. 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
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Baywide.
Meeting these water quality
standards by 2010 will preclude
the need for regulatory mea
sures slated to begin in 2011.
EPA has placed the Bay and its
tidal waters on the unpaired
waters list for an over abun
dance of the nutrients nitrogen
and phosphorus.
The agreement has five sec
tions containing commitments
to protect and restore living re
sources, vital habitats, and
water quality through sound
land use by promoting steward
ship and engaging communities
throughout the 64,000 square
mile watershed. The agreement
is designed to build on past res
toration actions and will con
tinue all Bay Program
commitments outlined in previ
ous agreements or Executive
Council directives. Specific res
toration commitments include
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increasing the number of native
oysters tenfold by 2010, restor
ing blue crabs by establishing
harvest targets and implement
ing complementary state man
agement plans Baywide, and
new wetlands restoration and
protection goals. Other commit
ments are reducing the loss rate
of farm and forest land to harm
ful sprawl development in the
watershed by 30 percent by
2012, permanently preserving
from development 20 percent of
the lands in the watershed by
2010, and striving for zero re
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from point sources by 2010. The
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of 2005, and expanding public
access by 30 percent by 2010,
and add 500 miles of water trails
by 2005.
Chesapeake 2000 becomes the
third Bay Agreement written to
guide the actions of the multi
jurisdictional Chesapeake Bay
Program. The first agreement,
creating the Bay Program, was
signed in 1983. A second was
signed in 1987 and amended in
1992. Scientists, local govern
ment officials and conservation
leaders all played a role in devel
oping the new agreement. The
process also included consider
able public input and review.
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agreement are scheduled com
pletion within ten years. It is al
ready being used to guide the
use of Bay Program partner re
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