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50 F Street, NW Suite 950
Washington DC 20001

Contact:

Hilary Harp Falk,
Senior Policy Analyst
202.464.4021,
hhfalk@nemw.org

 

 

 
 
Overview of Chesapeake Bay Watershed Activities
The Northeast-Midwest Institute analyzes and distributes information on interstate watershed management issues within the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the Mid-Atlantic river basins (i.e., the Delaware, Susquehanna, and Potomac Rivers). Staff also organize briefings on Capitol Hill and track basin-related projects and appropriations. To advance these efforts, Institute staff work closely with the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force, co-chaired by Reps. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), Bobby Scott (D-VA), Tom Davis (R-VA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and the three bipartisan Mid-Atlantic River Basin Task Forces. These bipartisan task forces were established to provide a forum for the exchange of information between members of Congress, their staff, and federal, state, and local entities with active regulatory oversight and outreach responsibilities in the Mid-Atlantic basins and entire Chesapeake watershed.

New Information and Important Links:
The 2008 Farm Bill includes $188 million in mandatory spending for a new program for Chesapeake Bay producers (Summary of House, Senate, and Final Conference Report) May 13, 2008

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force's appropriations requests for FY 2009

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force's request to OMB for the President's FY 2009 budget

Chesapeake Bay provisions in the 2007 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) conference report.

Map of Congressional Districts in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed for the 110th Congress.

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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