1. Chesapeake Bay TMDL and What It Means for You Katherine Antos, Coordinator Water Quality Team U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office Virginia Municipal League and Virginia Association of Counties June 2, 2010

2. 2 “For the Chesapeake Bay, 2010 may well go down as the year that everything changed” –Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal, January 2010

3. 3 May Could be the Month Everything Changed for the Watershed! EPA settles lawsuit with Chesapeake Bay Foundation Federal Leadership Committee releases Strategy to Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

4. 4 And Central to Both: The Chesapeake Bay TMDL The Chesapeake Bay TMDL

5. 5 Nutrient Loads Delivered from the Watershed to the Bay Source: Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model Phase 5.3 (2010) 342 251 191 24.1 16.6 14.4

6. 6 Nutrient Loads Delivered from the Virginia to the Bay Source: Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model Phase 5.3 (2010) 91 66 56 11.3 7.1 6.6

7. 7 TMDL and WIP Development Major basin jurisdiction loading targets Plan details into draft WLAs & LAs Final TMDL Established Nov. 2009 – September 2010 December 2010 EPA sends Expect- ations letter to PSC EPA sends Conse- quences letter to PSC Nov. - Dec. 2009 2012 – 2025 2-year milestones, reporting, modeling, monitoring Develop Ph. I WIP Ph II WIP with local targets and controls No later than November 2011

8. 8 Phase I WIPPhase II WIP

9. 9 Distributing Stormwater among Point and Nonpoint Sources The Phase I WIPs need to inform EPA how to distribute nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment loads The Chesapeake Bay TMDL WLAsLAs Point Sources Nonpoint Sources

10. Allocating Nutrients and Sediment… Like Taking Candy from a Baby, Right?!?!

11. 11 Opportunities to Directly Participate Call Virginia’s Watershed Implementation Plan points of contact (see next slide) –Help develop YOUR Watershed Implementation Plan Join in the monthly Bay TMDL webinars –Next one: Monday, June 7, 10 a.m. Get informed: www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdlwww.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl Fall 2010: Bay TMDL public review/comment period –Public meetings/webinars Contact your friendly EPA Bay TMDL colleagues (we don’t bite or even bark!)

12. 12 Watershed Implementation Plan Contacts Virginia: Alan Pollock, DEQ and Russ Perkinson, DCR Delaware: Jennifer Volk, DNREC District of Columbia: Monir Chowdhury, DOE Maryland: Rich Eskin and Tom Thornton, MDE New York: Ron Entringer and Peter Freehafer, DEC Pennsylvania: Pat Buckley, DEP West Virginia: Teresa Koon, DEP Contact information--phone number, email address--is available at: www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdlwww.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl

13. Katherine Antos, Coordinator Water Quality Team U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office Antos.Katherine@epa.gov (410) 295-1358 For More Information on the Bay TMDL: http://www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl/ For More Information on Executive Order 13508: http://executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net/ Questions?