Well, Pennsylvania had also been silent on the subject of 
the Bay. We hadn't shot at Pennsylvanians over the Bay; we had 
other territorial problems with them. But they had not taken 
any interest in the Bay until Governor Thornburg joined in this 
crusade. Because the State of Pennsylvania contributes more 
than half of the freshwater intake to the Bay, that was enor¬ 
mously important to enlist Pennsylvania in the cause of saving 
the Bay. 
In 1983, right after the EPA study was released, we were 
able to get the Governor of Maryland, the Governor of Virginia, 
the Governor of Pennsylvania, and the Mayor of the District of 
Columbia, an absolutely unprecedented line-up, to respond to the 
challenge that the study presented by making commitments on be¬ 
half of their States to address the problems outlined in the 
study. 
Capping this. President Reagan in his 1984 State-of-the- 
Union message made a major Federal commitment, which was not as 
large in dollars as we hoped it might be, but which was enor¬ 
mously important in terms of the stimulus that it gave to the 
whole Chesapeake Bay problem. He praised the administration of 
the Bay's cleanup program for a 4 year period. 
And then following the President's pledge, and I'm sure 
assisted by it, five Federal agencies have joined the under¬ 
taking, NOAA, very importantly? the Fish and Wildlife Service; 
the Army Corps of Engineers; and the Soil Conservation Service; 
and the Geological Survey. All came to Capitol Hill and in a 
rather formal and ceremonial way signed a Memorandum of Under¬ 
standing with EPA spelling out the role of each in the Chesa¬ 
peake Bay Program. 
Congress responded, notwithstanding the very stringent 
budget restraints of these days, the Congress has responded by 
appropriating funds for these agencies to perform their Bay 
missions. 
The latest chapter, in July we undertook a tour of the Bay 
in which we looked at what's happening on the spot. Paul Sar¬ 
banes, a Senator from Maryland; Lee Thomas, the EPA Adminis¬ 
trator; Secretary of the Interior, Secretary Odell; Governor 
Hughes, Governor Robb, and a number of other people, all joined 
together in making this tour of the Bay to see firsthand what 
each of the Federal agencies are contributing to the effort. 
For example, the Corps of Engineers took us to an area of 
shoreline erosion and showed us exactly what that danger is, how 
nature operates and what it can do to combat the problem. The 
Soil Conservation Service demonstrated how it's addressing the 
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