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NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Office is a division of the National Marine Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation, which works to protect and restore coastal and marine habitat at the national level. The Office is also a key collaborator with NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team, which integrates NOAA’s program activities to address priorities at both the national and regional scale.
NOAA has been a partner in Chesapeake Bay Program restoration and protection efforts since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1984.
Chesapeake Bay Program
The Chesapeake Bay Program is a unique regional partnership that has led and directed the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay since 1983. The Chesapeake Bay Program partners include the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia; the District of Columbia; the Chesapeake Bay Commission, a tri-state legislative body; the Environmental Protection Agency, representing the federal government; and participating citizen advisory groups.
The Chesapeake Bay was the nation’s first estuary targeted by Congress for restoration and protection. Since the 1980s, Bay Program partners have signed several agreements to reduce pollution and restore the Bay.
Each Bay Program partner agrees to use its own resources to implement projects and activities that advance Bay restoration. The partnership defines its collective actions through formal, voluntary agreements.
Since its formation in the 1980s, the Bay Program has had numerous accomplishments in environmental restoration, science and modeling, and establishing numeric indicators to track progress toward environmental goals.
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