[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 61 (Wednesday, March 31, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15362-15363]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7913]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6318-2]
Chesapeake Bay Program
This notice is to request interested parties to submit their name
and address to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake
Bay Program (CBP) for the purpose of establishing a database for those
interested in receiving Request for Proposals (RFPs) in order to apply
for grants/cooperative agreements or interagency agreements. RFPs will
be announced for several different themes in support for the Chesapeake
Bay Program's goals.
Background
The Chesapeake Bay Program is the unique regional partnership which
has been directing and conducting the restoration of the Chesapeake
Bay. 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 U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, representing the federal government;
and participating advisory groups. The Chesapeake Bay Program's highest
priority is to restore and protect the Bay's living resources and their
habitats.
Eligibility
Only applicants/organizations that are colleges; universities;
nonprofit organizations; or local, and state agencies are eligible to
receive grants/cooperative agreements. Proposed work must be in support
of Chesapeake Bay Program goals and commitments.
Goals of the Chesapeake Bay Program
The Chesapeake Bay Program has developed many goals and is
implementing Bay-wide efforts to meet those goals. Some of the
program's goals include: (1) Reduce nutrient loads (nitrogen and
phosphorus to the Bay by 40% by 2000; (2) restore underwater grasses;
(3) remove impediments to upstream fish migration; (4) manage the
harvest of fish and shellfish to assure sustainability; (5) restore
2010 miles of riparian forest buffers along the Bay and its tributaries
by 2010; (6) protect existing forest buffers; (7) encourage farmers to
use nutrient management and other BMPs; (8) work with local governments
to better manage the location and density of new development; (9)
eliminate chemical toxicity in the Bay; (10) encourage businesses,
communities and local
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governments to practice pollution prevention; (11) encourage community-
based activities; (12) develop and implement tributary strategies
tailored to local needs; (13) provide for increased public access to
Bay and its tributaries; and (14) educate the public about actions
needed to protect and restore the Bay.
Themes
(1) Toxics: Implement critical elements of the Chesapeake Bay
Basinwide Toxics Reduction and Prevention Strategy in order to ensure a
Bay free of toxics; (2) nutrients: Sustain and accelerate efforts to
meet the nutrient reduction goals in order to attain water quality
conditions necessary to support the living resources of the Chesapeake
Bay; (3) living resource/habitate restoration: Restore and protect
living resources, their habits and ecological relationships; (4) land
growth and stewardship: Encourage sustainable development patterns that
integrate economic health, resource protection, and community
participation; (5) monitoring: Integrate monitoring programs across the
Chesapeake basin through the implementation of the Basin-wide
Monitoring Strategy; (6) air: Link atmospheric deposition and loading
of nutrients and chemical contaminants to effects on living resources
and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries and watershed;
(7) communication/outreach: Provide communication, outreach and
education components of the Bay Program partnership; (8) modeling:
Continue to develop, calibrate, and manage the application of linked
airshed-watershed-estuarine hydrodynamic-water quality-living resources
models to support the Bay Program's nutrient cap and for understanding
the nutrient and sediment affects in the Chesapeake Bay system; and (9)
data management: Implement distributed data and information servers
networked to provide direct public access to synthesized Bay
restoration and protection related data and information.
Submission
Clearly print or type your name, email address, organization,
mailing address and what ``Theme(s)'' RFP you would be interested in
receiving. Mail this information to: Environmental Protection Agency,
Chesapeake Bay Program, (RFP Database), 410 Severn Ave, Suite 109,
Annapolis, MD 21403 or access our website--www.chesapeakebay.net/
rfp.htm. EPA will only accept addresses provided in writing, no phone
calls.
William Matuszeski,
Director, Chesapeake Bay Program.
[FR Doc. 99-7913 Filed 3-30-99; 8:45 am]
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