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Chesapeake Bay Program 



Person Interviewed: Ed Stilgall, Assistant Director 



The Chesapeake Bay Program is headed by an Executive Committee 

 consisting of the EPA Administrator, the Governors of the 3 affected 

 states, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, and the Chair of the 

 Chesapeake Bay Commission [more on the Commission in a moment]. 

 This Executive Committee has high enough status diat the members of the 

 group vie to be Chair. Its role is policy development 



The day-to-day management of the program is provided by an 

 Implementation Committee. This Committee is Chaired by the Director of 

 the Chesapeake Bay program, an EPA employee. Other members indude 

 representatives of the 11 Federal agencies and the tfu-ee states. Each of the 

 participating agencies provides dedicated staff from their agency who are 

 physically located at the Chesapeake Bay Program. 



There is also a series of subcommittees, one for each program area. For 

 example, there is a subcommittee that oversees the monitoring program, 

 another for the living resources (wildlife habitat) program, and another for 

 non-point sources. 



But the real success of the program comes from the fact that the states 

 have also established the Chesapeake Bay Commission. The Commission 

 has statutory authority in each of the legislatures. Each state appoints 4 



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