Maryland Nonpoint Source Program Management Plan

Maryland's Nonpoint Source Program Management Plan
December 1999

Executive Summary

The 2000 Statewide Nonpoint Source Management Plan Update is a comprehensive guide to the State’s nonpoint source problems, pollution control programs, and future step for nonpoint source pollution control and prevention. This Plan updates the "Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Program," prepared in April 1989. Maryland assembled this document in accordance with guidance contained in the Nonpoint Source Program and Grants Guidance for Fiscal Year 1997 and Future Years and the Final Administrative Changes to the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program Guidance. The document was developed to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) requirements, but was also written for the public to describe what is being done in Maryland to control or prevent nonpoint source pollution. The report is divided into six chapters: Introduction, Resource Assessment and Monitoring, Watershed Management Programs and Initiatives, NPS Programs and Initiatives, Public Outreach and Assistance Programs, and Future Directions. The NPS Programs and Initiatives chapter is the core component of the Nonpoint Source Management Plan document. This chapter is divided into the following nonpoint source pollution categories: agriculture, developed lands, forestry, marinas and recreational boating, hydromodification, wetlands, atmospheric deposition, and mining.

Maryland’s Nonpoint Source Management Plan Update was developed by Nonpoint Source Program staff in close cooperation with State and local nonpoint source program managers. Throughout the entire process these program managers were consulted so that the Management Plan contains the most current year 2000 information on nonpoint source pollution control programs and their long and short term goals. An update is planned for release in 2004.

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