[Federal Register: March 31, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 61)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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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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