Wilmer N. Stoneman, IIIAssociate Director of

Governmental Relations

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

TMDL?

Modeling

Chesapeake Bay TMDL- “Where Are We Headed?”

Chesapeake Bay TMDL

All economic sectors are capped; nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment.

Growth will come at the expense of another.

Economic Civil War!

Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load

• Precedent setting; 92 watersheds,• Cap and Trade for Water, • Expands the reach of the Chesapeake

Bay Program throughout the watershed• Everything, Everybody, Everywhere, All the time (E3);• State Developed, Federally Approved,

and Locally Implemented and Enforced.

Federal Consequences / Backstops

• Assigning more stringent pollution reductions to regulated point sources (e.g., wastewater, stormwater, CAFOs)

• Objecting to state-issued VPDES permits • Limiting or prohibiting new or expanded

discharges (e.g., wastewater, stormwater, CAFOs) of nutrients and sediment

• Withholding, conditioning or reallocating federal grant funds

How?The five identified Priority BMP’s:

–Nutrient Management –Cover Crops –Continuous No-Till–Buffers –Livestock Exclusion

Plus Two year milestone adjustments.Status check in 2017; 60% of base

loadings.

Practice vs System

There are no “Silver

Bullets”.

“There’s no place like home”