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Chesapeake Bay Program CBIG, CBRAP and Monitoring Grants
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The Chesapeake Bay is a national treasure and unique as North America's largest and most biologically diverse estuary. The EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) awards annual grants to signatory jurisdictions of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement to support activities to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay. Current signatories of the Watershed Agreement include the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. These grants are generally awarded non-competitively to signatories through allocation formulas provided in program guidance. Under this program, EPA awards two types of grants: 1) jurisdiction implementation grants, which support a signatory jurisdiction’s efforts to advance progress toward meeting commitments under the Watershed Agreement and subsequent amendments; and 2) monitoring grants, which support assessment of changes to water quality and living resources over time. Ensuring that benefits are distributed equitably and increasing climate resiliency are special areas of focus for the program. More information regarding the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Watershed Agreement can be found at https://www.chesapeakebay.net/.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
Environmental results, measured through data collected by the states and shared with the federal government, show the importance of the investment that federal, state, and local governments have made in providing clean and safe water. Every year, the Chesapeake Bay Program uses available monitoring information from the 92 segments of the Chesapeake Bay to estimate whether each segment is attaining criteria for one or more of its designated uses. EPA, along with other federal, state, and academic partners, are using this information to demonstrate progress toward meeting water quality standards and the Bay TMDL. States have reported that, as of 2021, best management practices to reduce pollution are in place to achieve 49 percent of the nitrogen reductions, 64 percent of the phosphorus reductions, and 100 percent of the sediment reductions needed to attain applicable water quality standards when compared to the 2009 baseline established in the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
