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Wilmer N. Stoneman, III Associate Director of Governmental Relations

Wilmer N. Stoneman, III Associate Director of Governmental Relations. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). TMDL?. Modeling. Chesapeake Bay TMDL- “Where Are We Headed?”. Chesapeake Bay TMDL. All economic sectors are capped; nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment.

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Wilmer N. Stoneman, III Associate Director of Governmental Relations

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  1. Wilmer N. Stoneman, IIIAssociate Director of Governmental Relations

  2. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  3. TMDL?

  4. Modeling

  5. Chesapeake Bay TMDL- “Where Are We Headed?”

  6. Chesapeake Bay TMDL All economic sectors are capped; nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment. Growth will come at the expense of another. Economic Civil War!

  7. Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load • Precedent setting; 92 watersheds, • Cap and Trade for Water, • Expands the reach of the Chesapeake Bay Program throughout the watershed • Everything, Everybody, Everywhere, All the time (E3); • State Developed, Federally Approved, and Locally Implemented and Enforced.

  8. Federal Consequences / Backstops • Assigning more stringent pollution reductions to regulated point sources (e.g., wastewater, stormwater, CAFOs) • Objecting to state-issued VPDES permits • Limiting or prohibiting new or expanded discharges (e.g., wastewater, stormwater, CAFOs) of nutrients and sediment • Withholding, conditioning or reallocating federal grant funds

  9. How? The five identified Priority BMP’s: • Nutrient Management • Cover Crops • Continuous No-Till • Buffers • Livestock Exclusion Plus Two year milestone adjustments. Status check in 2017; 60% of base loadings.

  10. Practice vs System

  11. There are no “Silver Bullets”.

  12. “There’s no place like home”

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