Examples of Chesapeake Bay Agreement in a sentence
The term ‘‘Chesapeake Executive Council’’ means the signatories to the Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
Draft The Next Chesapeake Bay Agreement as an Interstate Compact.EPA views the Bay Agreements as voluntary instruments that are not judicially enforceable.
On June 28, 2000, Mayor Williams, Governor Glendening, U.S. EPA and others signed the new Chesapeake Bay Agreement, which states: By 2010, the District of Columbia, working with its watershed partners, will reduce pollution loads to the Anacostia River in order to eliminate public health concerns and achieve the living resources, water quality, and habitat goals of this and past agreements.
Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and EPA signed the first Chesapeake Bay Agreement in 1983 by.13 The Agreement outlined a cooperative, voluntary approach to improve management of the Bay’s resources.
The Chesapeake Bay Agreement has a goal to ensure that the Bay and its rivers are free of effects of toxic contaminants on living resources and human health.
The District is also a signatory to the Chesapeake Bay Agreement, pledging to reduce nutrient loads to the Bay by 40 percent or more by the year 2010.
In concert with the 2000 Agreement, Congress passed the Estuaries and Clean Water Act of 2000 (106 P.L 457).17 This Act included the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Act of 2000.18 Congress added section 117(g) which provides that the EPA Administrator “shall ensure that management plans are developed and implementation is begun by signatories of the Chesapeake Bay Agreement to achieve and maintain”, among other things, the nutrient and water quality requirements necessary to restore the Bay.
Some of these restoration efforts include the Chesapeake Bay Agreement in 1980, another agreement in 1987, amendments to the 1987 agreement in 1992, and the Chesapeake Bay 2000 Agreement.
Including the consideration of fish-friendly stream crossing design alternatives provides another important avenue for interagency collaboration on projects that benefit fish and wildlife and are consistent with the Chesapeake Bay Agreement goals.