Chesapeake Executive Council Publications
The Chesapeake Executive Council establishes the policy direction for the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay. It consists of the governors of the six watershed states, the mayor of the District of Columbia, the chair of the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Revision Process for Minor Amendments to Chesapeake Bay Fishery Management Plans
Published on March 7, 2006 in Policy MemorandumAn agreement that approves expedited method for handling changes in fishery management plans as warranted.
View detailsChesapeake Watershed Education Agreement: Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship
Published on November 29, 2005 in AgreementBy this agreement, the Executive Committee members commit themselves to continually work to ensure that students have been exposed to concepts in environmental literacy and have examined strategies to foster their restoration and protection.
View detailsDirective 04-3: Building New Partnerships and New Markets for Agricultural Animal Manure and Poultry
Published on January 10, 2005 in DirectiveAgriculture is a significant source of nutrients entering the Chesapeake Bay, with animal manure and poultry litter contributing about half of the agricultural nutrient load. As animal operations become more concentrated and the acreage of cropland available for manure application is lost to development, the challenge of manure management will only intensify.
View detailsDirective 04-2: Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals - Next Steps
Published on January 10, 2005 in DirectiveThis Directive addresses next steps, each of which will advance Tributary Strategy implementation, and identifies measures to implement several Panel recommendations upon which action can be taken quickly.
View detailsDirective 04-1: Funding the Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Published on January 10, 2005 in DirectiveIn December 2003, the Executive Council directed the Chesapeake Bay Program to establish and convene a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue ribbon panel to consider funding sources to implement the tributary strategies basin-wide and to make recommendations regarding other actions at the federal, state and local level to the Executive council.
View detailsApoption Statement - 2004 Oyster Management Plan
Published on January 10, 2005 in Adoption StatementAn adoption statement signed by the Executive Council to continue the 2004 Oyster Management Plan. The 2004 Oyster Management Plan provides both a general framework and specific guidance for rebuilding and managing the native oyster, Crassostrea virginica, in the Chesapeake Bay.
View detailsEndorsement of the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience
Published on January 10, 2005 in Policy MemorandumThe Chesapeake Bay is dependent upon the actions of every citizen in the watershed, both today and in the future. The Bay's future will soon rest in the hands of its youngest citizens. Our students, future Bay leaders, should be armed with the knowledge and skills need to make informed choices, have a sense of history and excitement about the nation's largest estuary and an understanding of how their individual actions affect this national treasure.
View detailsDirective No. 03-01: Expanded Riparian Forest Buffer Goals
Published on December 8, 2003 in DirectiveWe, the members of the Chesapeake Executive Council, hereby reaffirm our commitment to restoring the Chesapeake Bay, in part, by protecting and restoring riparian lands along the watershed’s thousands of miles of stream and shoreline.
View detailsDirective 98-1: Chesapeake Bay Program Education Initiative
Published on December 8, 1998 in DirectiveThis directive outlines environmental education commitments by the Bay Program, departments of education and interagency education groups in each jurisdiction. These groups will report annually to the Department of Education, and private environmental organization in the Bay region, which also offer nationally-recognized training programs and curriculum. The education initiative also determines convening an Education Summit of the four interagency education groups in 1999 and every two years thereafter.
View detailsAdoption Statement - Riparian Forest Buffers
Published on October 10, 1996 in Adoption StatementIn past commitments, we agreed to reduce nutrients, to restore habitat, to improve access to thousands of miles of habitat for migratory fish, and to enhance watershed management by developing and implementing tributary-specific pollution reduction strategies. Building on these past commitments, we now highlight the role that conservation, restoration, and stewardship of our riparian areas, and in particular riparian forests, play in reaching our long-term goals for restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
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