Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund
SFY 2011 Annual Work and Expenditure Plan
The SFY 2011 Work Plan contains the accounting of all monies distributed from the Trust Fund in State Fiscal Year 2009 (SFY 09), provides the expenditure plan and progress for State Fiscal Year 2010 (SFY 10) and identifies the planned work to be funded with money from the Trust Fund for 2011 (SFY 11), including annual nutrient and sediment reduction targets, performance measures, and accountability criteria. Detailed project descriptions are provided in the Fiscal Year Breakout section of this report.
Welcome to BayStat
Governor Martin O’Malley created BayStat by Executive Order in February, 2007 – a powerful new statewide tool designed to assess, coordinate and target Maryland’s Bay restoration programs, and to inform our citizens on progress.
Each month Governor O’Malley meets with his BayStat team -- the Secretaries of the Maryland Departments of Agriculture, Environment, Natural Resources and Planning, scientists from the University of Maryland and other key staff -- to make sure our Bay restoration work is on track. These sessions provide a regular opportunity for the team to assess progress, evaluate what’s working and what’s not, and adapt our efforts accordingly.
BayStat allows Maryland state agencies to work smarter…
- coordinating efforts and programs
- basing decisions on the best available science
- targeting resources to get the biggest bang for the buck and
- being more open and accountable to Maryland citizens
2 Year Milestones:
On May 12, 2009, Governor O'Malley joined Virginia's Governor Kaine, Washington D.C Mayor Fenty, EPA Administrator Jackson, and representatives of Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, and New York in announcing significant acceleration of our collective Chesapeake Bay restoration actions over the next 2 years. Maryland's suite of actions represent a 138% increase in our rate of nitrogen reduction and an over 500% increase in our rate of phosphorus reduction, and put Maryland on a pace to meet our Bay Restoration Goals by 2020.
Maryland's BayStat agencies are currently working on revising the "Solutions" portion of this website to transparently track our progress at meeting these Milestones. We expect to have this completed by early August. In the meantime, more specifics on Maryland's actions can be viewed at Maryland 2 Year Milestones.
From the desk of
Governor Martin O'Malley
During the past three years we have worked together with legislators and other leaders throughout Maryland to enact the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund, reduce stormwater runoff, strengthen our Critical Area law, promote transit-oriented development, require use of green building technology in new State buildings and schools using state funds, increase use of cover crops on farm fields, reduce total energy usage, and increase use of renewable energy sources. We also enacted the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act of 2009, increased tree planting, and took strong actions to put our blue crab and oyster populations on the road to recovery.
All of those efforts continue, and BayStat helps us track progress and results. To continue the progress in restoring the Chesapeake Bay we have asked our legislators to appropriate $20 million for the Trust Fund in FY 2011. This is more than double the $8 million provided in FY 2010 or the $9.6 million provided in FY 2009.