On August 1, 2011, EPA provided planning targets for nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment for the Phase II Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs) of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL. The Phase II WIPs are expected to provide strategies necessary to have practices in place by 2017 that would result in 60 percent of the necessary nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment reductions needed by 2025.
View the letters EPA sent containing the planning targets below.
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- August 1, 2011 - EPA Letter to Delaware Regarding Planning Targets for Phase II Watershed Implementation Plans (PDF)(3 pp, 1 MB)
- August 1, 2011 - EPA Letter to District of Columbia Regarding Planning Targets for Phase II Watershed Implementation Plans (PDF)(3 pp, 1 MB)
- August 1, 2011 - EPA Letter to Maryland Regarding Planning Targets for Phase II Watershed Implementation Plans (PDF)(3 pp, 1 MB)
- August 1, 2011 - EPA Letter to New York Regarding Planning Targets for Phase II Watershed Implementation Plans (PDF)(3 pp, 1 MB)
- August 1, 2011 - EPA Letter to Pennsylvania Regarding Planning Targets for Phase II Watershed Implementation Plans (PDF)(3 pp, 1 MB)
- August 1, 2011 - EPA Letter to Virginia Regarding Planning Targets for Phase II Watershed Implementation Plans (PDF)(3 pp, 1 MB)
- August 1, 2011 - EPA Letter to West Virginia Regarding Planning Targets for Phase II Watershed Implementation Plans (PDF)(3 pp, 1 MB)