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CBP Partnership Approach for Ensuring Full Accountability of
Best Practices and Technologies Implemented
Jim Edward, CBPO Deputy DirectorCBP Citizen Advisory Committee Briefing
March 1, 2012 Meeting
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Verification Requests
• Citizen Advisory Committee– Repeated requests for BMP verification
• Chesapeake Executive Order Strategy– USDA and EPA commitment to develop/implement
mechanism for tracking/reporting ‘voluntary conservation practices’ by July 2012
• NRC’s Ches Bay Independent Evaluation Report– Five science-based conclusions focused on ‘accurate
tracking of BMPs’
• Chesapeake Bay TMDL’s Appendix S– EPA expectations for offset credit verification
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Verification-Related Work Underway
• NEIEN– Successful submission of 2010 progress data
• NACD– Project for development of data collection/verification
protocols for non-cost shared ag practices
• USGS MOU’s with NRCS/FSA– Improving access to federal cost-shared data
• USDA Office of Environmental Markets– Synthesis of verification of environ. credits
• Responses to NRC CB Indep. Evaluation Report– MB’s recommended responses sent to PSC
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Partnership Approach
• Build a Partnership-wide BMP Verification Program working up through CBP Partnership– Workgroups GITs MB PSC
• Address full array of practices across all sources– Agricultural lands, forest lands, wetlands, developed
lands, on-site treatment systems, abandoned mine lands, wastewater dischargers, stream corridors, tidal shorelines
• Factor in innovative approaches taken by jurisdictions, local municipalities, districts
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Verification Framework
• Verification principles– Partnership agreement on principles to guide the
jurisdictions’ development/implementation of verification programs
• Source sector-specific verification protocols– Developed through the GITs’ workgroups and approved
by the Partnership
• Verification panel– Verification experts charged by the Partnership to
review/make recommendations on jurisdictions’ proposed verification programs (aka BMP panels)
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Other Key Elements
• Federal Cost Shared Practices: Complete work by USGS through MOUs with NRCS and FSA to provide jurisdictions and wider partnership with full access to all federal cost shared agricultural conservation practices
• Double Counting: Complete work by USGS, states, NRCS and FSA to put in place protocols for preventing double counting of individual practices funded by multiple sources
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Other Key Elements
• Historic Data Clean-up: Jurisdictions’ completion or commitment to finish clean up for tracked and reported practices from1985 to present using CBRAP funds and/or EPA contractor resources
• Practice Life Spans: Partnership agreement on practice specific life spans and information management protocols for enforcing those life spans within each jurisdictions’ NEIEN-based BMP tracking, verification and reporting system
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PSC review, approval of proposed process/schedule
MB review, approval of proposed process/schedule
WQGIT review, approval of proposed process/schedule
Source sector-specific verification protocols developed by workgroups
Workgroups with tracking, reporting and accountability systems, offset/trading program responsibilities work to resolve issues, refine existing systems
Weave together initial workgroup products into preliminary draft BMP verification principles and protocols
PARTNERSHIP APPROACH
Completed 2/9/2012
Completed 2/16/2012
Late March 2012
Work Underway
Completed 1/9/2012
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WQGIT review/modification/ of preliminary draft BMP verification principles, and protocols
MB review/modification/approval to present proposed BMP verification principles, protocols to PSC
Preliminary draft BMP verification principles and protocols
PSC review/modification/adoption of BMP verification principles, protocols for the Partnership
PSC communication of the Partnership’s BMP Verification Program to partners/stakeholders through some formal agreement mechanism
PARTNERSHIP APPROACH (Con’t)
Briefings for CAC, STAC, and LGAC*; review of draft BMP verification principles, protocols by the other GITs**
BMP Verification Panel Reviews States’ Proposed Verification Programs
March*/April** 2012
May/June 2012
Summer 2012
Fall 2012
Starting Fall 2012
April 2012
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Proposed Schedule*
• Starting Fall/Winter 2012: jurisdictions present their proposed BMP verification programs to the Panel for review
• 2013: Following CBP Partnership approval of their BMP verification program, jurisdictions can track, verify, report, and receive credit for the full array of cost shared and non-cost shared practices
• 2014: Account for expanded verified practices, technologies when reporting on 2012-2013 milestones and developing 2014-2015 milestones
*Subject to change based on partnership decision.
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Key Next Steps
• CBPO staff developing a BMP verification section on the partnership’s www.chesapeakebay.net web site
• A BMP Verification Steering Committee being convened this month under the WQ Goal Implementation Team
• Management Board will made decisions on BMP Panel membership based on forthcoming recommendations
• Other GITs will be engaged in the process
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Questions for the Citizens Advisory Committee
• Are we missing any key elements in developing a comprehensive BMP verification program across the CBP partnership?
• How can we ensure we get input from involved stakeholders during the BMP verification framework development process?
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Questions for the Citizens Advisory Committee
• What are your recommendations for the types of experts we should have on the BMP verification panel? Do you have specific recommendations for specific panel members?
• What specific role(s) would the CAC like to play during development of the BMP verification framework? How involved do you want to be?
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Rich Batiuk
Associate Director for ScienceU.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Chesapeake Bay Program Office 410 Severn Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21403
410-267-5731 (office)
443-223-7823 (cell)
www.chesapeakebay.net
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