Trading and Offsets Workgroup

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Scope and Purpose

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 and Resources

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

Members
David Foster (Chair), Phoenix Initiatives
Address:
17 Byford Court
Chestertown, Maryland 21620

Email:  jdavidfoster@gmail.com
John Rhoderick (Vice Chair), Maryland Department of Agriculture
Address:
50 Harry S Truman Parkway
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email:  JohnCRhoderick@gmail.com
Patricia Gleason (Coordinator), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 3
Address:
1650 Arch St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

Email:  gleason.patricia@epa.gov
Phone:  (215) 814-5740
Allan Brockenbrough, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Address:
629 East Main St
Richmond, Virginia 23219

Email:  abrockenbrough@deq.virginia.gov
Phone:  (804) 698-4147
Beth McGee, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Address:
6 Herndon Ave
Annapolis, Maryland 21403

Email:  bmcgee@cbf.org
Phone:  (410) 268-8816
Marya Levelev, Maryland Department of the Environment
Address:
1800 Washington Blvd.
Baltimore, Maryland 21230

Email:  mlevelev@mde.state.md.us
Phone:  (410) 537-3720
Roy Hoagland, HOPE Impacts, LLC
Address:
14507 Sailview Court
Midlothian, Virginia 23112

Email:  royhoagland@hopeimpacts.com
Phone:  (804) 221-0404
Russ Baxter, Virginia Office of Natural Resources
Address:
1111 E. Broad Street
Suite 4066
Richmond, Virginia 23219

Email:  russ.baxter@governor.virginia.gov
Phone:  (804) 786-0044
Teresa Koon, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
Address:
601 57th St SE
Charleston, West Virginia 25304

Email:  Teresa.M.Koon@wv.gov
Phone:  (304) 926-0499 x1020
Bob Rose, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water
Address:
1200 Pennsylvania, Avenue, N.W.
Room 3226L, EPA East MC 4101M
Washington, District of Columbia 20460

Email:  rose.bob@epa.gov
Phone:  (202) 564-0322
Olivia Devereux, Environmental Scientist, Devereux Environmental Consulting
Address:
9219 Mintwood Street
Silver Spring, Maryland 20901

Email:  olivia@devereuxconsulting.com
Phone:  (301) 325-7449
Michael Helfrich, Lower Susquehanna River Keepers Association
Address:
324 W. Market St.
York, Pennsylvania 17401-1010

Email:  lowsusriver@hotmail.com
Phone:  (717) 779-7915
Kimberly Snell-Zarcone, Conservation Pennsylvania
Address:
P.O. Box 2125
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

Email:  kim@conservationpa.org
Phone:  (484) 857-7123
Dominic Bassani, Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc.
Address:
9 East Park Court
Old Bethpage, New York 11804

Email:  dbassani@biontech.com
George Onyullo, District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE)
Address:
1200 First St. NE
5th Floor
Washington, District of Columbia 20002

Email:  george.onyullo@dc.gov
Ginny Snead, The Louis Berger Group, Inc
Address:
801 E. Main Street
Suite 500
Richmond, Virginia 23219

Email:  gsnead@louisberger.com
Evan Branosky, District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE)
Address:
1200 First Street NE, 5th Floor
Washington, District of Columbia 20002

Email:  evan.branosky@dc.gov
Phone:  (202) 535-2295
Susan Frick Payne, Maryland Department of Agriculture
Address:
50 Harry S. Truman Parkway 
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email:  susan.payne@maryland.gov
Phone:  (410) 841-5897
Matt Richardson, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Address:
629 E. Main St.
Richmond, Virginia 23219

Email:  matthew.richardson@deq.virginia.gov
Mark Hoffman, Chesapeake Bay Commission
Address:
60 West Street
Suite 406
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email:  mhoffman@chesbay.us
Phone:  (410) 263-3420
Jen Walls, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
Address:
89 Kings Highway
Dover, Delaware 19901

Email:  Jennifer.Walls@state.de.us
Phone:  (302) 739-9062