Pennsylvania’s Tributary Strategy For Local Watersheds & The Chesapeake Bay

1. Pennsylvania’s Tributary Strategy For Local Watersheds & The Chesapeake Bay

2. Chesapeake 2000 Agreement • The water quality goal of the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement is to meet water quality standards in the Bay by 2010

3. Federal Clean Water Act • This is a mandatory Clean Water Act obligation • New water quality standards applicable in Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna and Potomac watersheds became effective August 29, 2005

4. Pennsylvania’s Nutrient Load to the Bay • Total Nitrogen Load • Point sources: 14% • Nonpoint sources: 86% • Total Phosphorus Load • Point sources: 22% • Nonpoint sources: 78%

5. Pennsylvania’s Nutrient Load • Instream Monitoring for Total Load • Point Source Monitoring • Significant Point Sources (0.4 MGD) • Voluntary Data From 2002 • Instream – Point Source = Nonpoint Source Load

6. Nonpoint Source Funding In 2004 alone, the total funding of these programs was approximately $75 million: • CREP • Growing Greener I and II • DEP Stream Bank Fencing Program • DEP Stream Improvement Program • DEP Chesapeake Bay Financial Assistance Funding • DEP Stormwater Management Program • EPA Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants • EPA Chesapeake Bay Implementation Grant • EPA Nonpoint Source 319 Program • USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program • USDA Conservation Resource Program • Ducks Unlimited Partnership Program

7. Point Source Funding • Annual PENNVEST funding: $150 to $200 million • $50 million in PENNVEST grants for nutrient reduction technology upgrades and actions to address combined sewer overflows • $200 million through PennWorks • $50 to $100 million in new bonds for PENNVEST loans • Growing Greener Innovative Technology Grants: $5 million/year • Growing Greener II funding

8. Significant Sewage Treatment Plants • PA – Cap Load Allocation based on 2010 Flow Projection at 8 mg/l TN and 1 mg/l TP • MD – Requiring Technology-based Cap Loads of 4.0 mg/l TN and 0.3 mg/l TP at Design Flow • VA – Requiring Technology-based Cap Loads of: • Northern basin – Between 3 to 4 mg/l TN and 0.3 mg/l TP at Design Flow • Southern basin – Between 5 to 6 mg/l TN and 0.5 to 0.7 mg/l TP at Design Flow

9. Significant Industrial Discharges • PA • Aggregate 2002 Loads with a 10% Reserve • MD • Case-specific cap loads dependent on reductions since 1985 • VA • Case-specific concentration limits

10. Agricultural Requirements • ACRE • E &S Plan or Conservation Plan • Nutrient Management Plan or Manure Management Plan • NPDES permit for CAFOs • Water Quality Management permit for some larger manure storage

11. New Development • New Point Source • Zero Net Load – Options: • Land Application of Effluent With Crop Uptake • Recycle and Reuse of Effluent • Load Offsets • Purchasing Credits (Trading) • New On-lot Systems – No New Requirements • Connection to Existing Point Source • No New Requirements • Point Source Decision Whether It Can Meet Its Cap Loads

12. Nutrient and Sediment Trading • Trading is available now • Trades may occur between: • Point to point • Point to nonpoint • Third parties may participate