The document summarizes the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) plan, which aims to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. It outlines that the TMDL caps pollution levels from point sources like wastewater treatment plants and non-point sources like agriculture. States must develop Watershed Implementation Plans by 2017 to show how they will meet pollution reductions through controls on sources. The EPA will take federal actions if states do not meet their pollution reduction targets.

1. THE CHESAPEAKE BAY TMDL: Restoring Local Waters and the Chesapeake Bay Choose Clean Water Conference Washington, DC January 11, 2010 Bob Koroncai U.S. EPA Region III

7. Bay TMDL Development Process What total loading for nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment can the Bay assimilate? What is an equitable distribution of the watershed-wide loadings to the states/basins? How should the state/basin load be sub-allocated to: individual point sources, non- point source sectors, and sub-watersheds or counties? WIP

10. Mandatory Pollution Diet at Work Develop Watershed Implementation Plans (EPA letter 11/4/09) Establish Bay TMDL: Employ Federal Actions or Consequences (EPA letter 12/29/09) Set 2-Year Milestones Monitor Progress