The Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requires NASA LaRC to develop a Chesapeake Bay TMDL Action Plan (“CB Action Plan”) that is submitted to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
What is the Action Plan?
The Chesapeake Bay is listed as impaired due to excess amounts of sediment and nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus). Federal MS4 operators, like other MS4s, are given three full permit cycles (15 years total) to achieve the necessary reductions. For more information on the Chesapeake Bay TMDL Program, and why it is important to the Bay’s health, please click here.
In the Chesapeake Bay Action Plan, LaRC provides an overview of several management practices and retrofit programs that will be implemented to achieve the reduction of aforementioned pollutants. Specifically, in the Phase II of this Action Plan, LaRC outlines the practices that are to be implemented from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2023 to achieve an additional 35% reduction for existing sources.
Click here or the image below to read LaRC’s Chesapeake Bay Action Plan – Phase II, where you’ll find more detailed information on reductions required, how LaRC achieved reductions during the 1st permit cycle, and what LaRC has in store for the next four years!
