Common Contracts
1 similar Chesapeake Bay Restoration contracts
ContractChesapeake Bay Restoration • April 15th, 2008
While the Chesapeake Bay is America’s largest and most productive estuary, its health has declined significantly over the past several decades due to nutrient and sediment pollution. In 1999, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified the bay as an impaired water body. In 2000, the Chesapeake Bay partners (the bay states, the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and EPA) negotiated the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement (C2K), which specified restoration goals to improve the bay and remove it from the EPA’s List of Impaired Waters. As part of C2K, specific pollution reduction goals have been allocated to the various bay states. Maryland’s reduction goals are summarized in Exhibit K-1.
