Common Contracts
1 similar Chesapeake Bay Agreement contracts
Chesapeake Bay ProgramChesapeake Bay Agreement • July 27th, 1999
In 1987, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally agreed to reduce and control point and nonpoint sources of pollution to attain the water quality conditions necessary to support the living resources of the Bay. TO achieve this, we agreed to develop, adopt and begin to implement a strategy to equitably achieve by the year 2000 a 40 percent reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus entering the mainstem Chesapeake Bay. WE also agreed to reevaluate the 40 percent reduction target based on the results of modeling, monitoring and other information available to us.
