Updating the PREP Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan

1. Updating the PREP Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan

2. Why Stakeholder Meetings? At the core of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Estuary Program (which PREP is one of 28 nationally) is a mandate that program actions be stakeholder-driven. Federal assistance to solve problems identified at the local level

3. Why Should You Participate? If a particular issue does not have an Action Plan in the PREP CCMP, then: • A project can not be supported (i.e. funded) by the PREP • The plan can not leverage federal, state, or other funding (i.e. NH Shellfish Program) Often puts local issues in a watershed context

4. 1995 - New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) formed in NH state government. Development begins of Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) 2000 - Implementation of CCMP begins, 98 Actions 2005 – NHEP moves to University of New Hampshire, Minor update of CCMP 2008 – All of the Great Bay Estuary watershed is added 2009 – Name change and full CCMP update begins

5. PREP Focus Area Maine (10 communities) Barrington Brentwood Brookfield Candia Chester Danville Deerfield Dover Durham East Kingston Epping Exeter Farmington Fremont Greenland Hampton Hampton Falls Kensington Kingston Lee Madbury Middleton Milton Newcastle New Durham Newfields Newington Newmarket North Hampton Northwood Nottingham Portsmouth Raymond Rochester Rollinsford Rye Sandown Seabrook Somersworth Strafford Stratham Wakefield Acton Berwick Eliot Kittery Lebanon North Berwick Sanford South Berwick Wells York New Hampshire (42 communities)

6. CCMP Update Process Three sets of meetings in three themed areas Water Resources Land Use and Habitat Protection Living Resources and Habitat Restoration Meeting #1 – Set goals and objectives Meeting #2 – Determine Action Plans Meeting #3 – Prioritize Action Plans

7. Meetings Living Resources and Habitat Restoration 2-4-09 - Meeting: #1Time: 9 a.m. - Noon, UNH Cooperative Extension (Brentwood, NH) 3-19-09 - Meeting #2 Time: 9 a.m. – Noon NHDES-Coastal Office (Portsmouth, NH) 4-29-09 - Meeting #3 Time: 1-4 p.m. Urban Forestry Center, (Portsmouth, NH) Water Resources 1-7-09 - Meeting: #1Time: 9 a.m. - Noon, NHDES-Coastal Office (Portsmouth, NH) 2-19-09 - Meeting #2 Time: 9 a.m. – Noon Urban Forestry Center (Portsmouth, NH) 4-1-09 - Meeting #3 Time: 1-4 p.m. NH Fish and Game, Region 3 Office (Durham, NH) Land Use and Habitat Protection 1-28-09 - Meeting: #1Time: 9 a.m. - Noon, Wells NERR, Wells, ME 3-5-09 - Meeting #2 Time: 9 a.m. – Noon Exeter Public Library (Exeter, NH) 4-15-09 - Meeting #3 Time: 1-4 p.m. Hugh Gregg Coastal Conservation Center, Great Bay Discovery Center (Greenland, NH)

8. CCMP Update Process (continued) Stakeholder Meetings January - April 2009 Agency Stakeholder Meetings NH DES NH F&G MDEP May – July 2009 All Stakeholders Meeting Review and Comment on Draft Plan August 2009 Final Plan January 2010

9. Jack Mettee Mettee Planning Consultants jackmetteeaicp@comcast.net