Chesapeake Bay Executive Council Meeting

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Chesapeake Bay Executive Council Meeting May 12,
2009 Mount Vernon, Virginia Jeff Corbin, Virginia
Assistant Secretary of Natural Resources
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November 2008 Executive Council Meeting

• Governor Kaine committed the partnership, at
  the May 2009 EC meeting, to
• Adopting a set of 2-year milestones
• Proposing a new Bay cleanup deadline (aka
  Restoration End Date)

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December 2008

• Secretary Preston Bryant established and
  charged an Action Team, by the April 2009 PSC
  meeting, to
• Agree on guidelines for jurisdictional
  development of 2-year milestones
• Develop jurisdiction-specific 2-year milestones
• Discuss options for adopting contingencies upon
  failure to meet milestones
• Recommend a new Bay cleanup deadline
• (aka Restoration End Date)

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These are Water Quality Restoration Milestones
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Milestones Guiding Principle

• While milestones for each jurisdiction will
  likely vary considerably with respect to proposed
  specific actions, it is critical that the overall
  combined milestones product be consistent and
  comprehensive.

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Milestones Guidelines

• Will focus strictly on Bay water quality
  restoration goal
• Jurisdiction-specific milestone outcomes can be
  rolled up into a single, basin-wide summary
• Milestone outcomes include pounds reduced ,
  acres implemented, adoption of new regulations,
  legislation, policies
• Account for implementation actions of all partners

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Milestone Attributes

• First 2-year milestones will be from mid-2009
  through end of 2011
• Confirming we intend to develop milestones which
  are stretch goals but still attainable
• Accelerates past rates of implementation
• Milestones could include commitments to seek new
  regulations, enactment of new legislation/policies
  
• Translate or relate actions and resources to Bay
  water quality endpoints
• Measurable, trackable, reportable and related to
  the end goal (cap load allocations)
• Consistency across the 7 jurisdictions

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Roll It All Up
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A New Restoration End Date

• The date by which all the actions required to
  achieve the jurisdiction-specific and basinwide
  cap load allocations have been fully implemented
  on the ground

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No Later Than 2025
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Milestone Next Steps

• Tracking use partnerships existing ag/urban
  BMP and wastewater tracking system (updated every
  January)
• Reporting progress updated annually through the
  Bay Barometer (published every March)
• Adapt change partners implementation
  approaches based on new information through
  annual adaptive management cycle (annually)
• Plan B continue development of contingencies
  to close gaps/ address shortfalls (ongoing)

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