Cooperation, Coordination, Collaboration

摘要

To understand the nature of the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load, it is important to understand the origins of the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership. The District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia and the federal Environmental Protection Agency formed the initial partnership in 1983 by signing a one-page agreement which recognized that fixing the bay's pollution problems required these jurisdictions to work together in a cooperative and coordinated way. This recognition has provided a common thread running through all of the bay restoration agreements and efforts since then.