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State Programs and Rules
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State
trading programs
- Inland Bays Watershed - Pollution Control Strategy allowing trading
- Watershed-based nutrient trading factsheet - 'An industry in a Bind' factsheet : Delaware Department of Natural Resources
- "Water
Quality Trading in the Lower Delaware River Basin: A Resource
for Practitioners": a Report to the William Penn Foundation by the Institute
for Environmental Studies, University of Pennsylvania (March
2006)
- Pollutant Trading Advisory Committee webpage - Florida DEP
- Tampa
Bay Estuary Program
- Florida Ranchlands Environmental Services Project (FRESP): factsheet (pdf), WWF page, RFF article - FRESP, funded by the USDA NRCS, FDACS, SFWMD, WWF, and Florida DEP, is a 5-year pilot market-based project to restore Lake Okeechobee watershed by paying ranchers for environmental services such as water retention, phosphorus retention and wetland enhancement.
- Lower St Johns River Basin - Florida DEP main webpage (includes overview of action and trading plans).
- Lake
Allatoona Watershed: A framework for trading phosphorus credits in the Lake Allatoona Watershed - River Center website.
- Water Quality Trading feasibility papers: "An evaluation of Water Quality Trading for Georgia Watersheds" (2005) working paper and conference proceedings- "A feasibility analysis of applying water quality trading in Georgia Watersheds" (2005) link to pdf - "Building a foundation for water quality trading in Georgia (2006) link to pdf - "Water Quality Trading: Addressing two potential impediments to success" (2005) pdf
- Piasa Creek Watershed Project (Illinois-American Water Company) -AWWA Journal (Dec. 2005), Great Rivers LandTrust website. 2008 NPDES Permit notice.
- Maryland Nutrient Trading Program Exploration - MDE webpage
- Policy for Nutrient Cap Management and Trading (MDE webpage)
- Nitrogen Credit Trading in Maryland: A market analysis for establishing a statewide framework (2002). WERF report - link to abstract
- Legislation: Water quality trading rule development page - MPCA
Phosphorus Strategy
Minnesota
River Basin General Phosphorus Permit
phase 1.
- A 2006 USDA-Conservation Innovation Grant entitled, "Improving Conservation & Ag Economics with WQ Credit Trading & the BMP Challenge" uses trading and a BMP risk guarantee to improve the usage of conservation practices by corn producers and late adopters. The BMP Challenge is being implemented in 12 states and the combination with trading in MN and PA. See BMP Challenge.
A Preliminary Draft White Paper examines MN agricultural participation in credit trading.
- Rahr
Malting/Lower Minnesota River info - permit factsheet (MPCA) - "Pollutant trading to Improve Riparian Habitat" article (2006).
- Watershed-Based Permitting Case Study: Final permit Rahr Malting - EPA factsheet
- Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative permit.
- 2004 Minnesota River Summer Low Flow DO TMDL
- Vermillion River Targeted Watershed Grant (thermal credit trading system) webpage. "Thermal Trading in a Local, State, and Federal Regulatory Context: the Vermillion River" (2007) by Jay Coggins, Univ. of MN (pdf).
- Non-tidal Passaic
River Basin: Factsheet, Water
quality trading program webpage (Rutgers University)
- Phosphorus Offset Pilot Program - regulations (see page 100)
- Developing
an Effluent Trading Program to Address Nutrient Pollution in
the Providence and Seekonk Rivers, Rhode Island, Master's
Thesis, Patricia-Ann Caton, Center for Environmental Studies,
Brown University, May 2002
- Legislation:
VPDES Watershed General Permit for Nutrient discharges to the Chesapeake Bay main page
DEQ Chesapeake Bay Program: web page
- Chesapeake Bay Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Tributary Strategy for the James River, Lynnhaven, and Poquoson Coastal Basin (2005) (pdf) - Link to other statewide tributary strategies.
- Water Quality Trading Suitability Analysis - Spokane River Watershed Final Report (2005) - Ross & Associates - pdf.
- WV Potomac Water Quality Bank and Trade Program webpage - includes links to Draft Trading Guidance documents (May 2008)
- Water Quality Credits at Former Mine Lands (including section on Cheat River Trading Framework) - EPA document
- Completed and Future Projects on the Cheat River and use of TMDL Trading (2003) - pdf
- Water Quality Trading Stakeholder Committee - West Virginia DEP webpage - includes links to final report (2004).
- Red
Cedar River - Wisconsin
DNR Watershed Based Pollutant Trading page (includes links to City of Cumberland Phosphorus Trading Progress Reports)
- Fox-Wolf
Watershed Alliance
- Rock
River Partnership webpage
- Lessons
Learned from the Trading Pilots: Applications for Wisconsin
Water Quality Trading Policy,
Resource Strategies, Inc. for Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance
(2003).
- Fourth Progress Report on the Trading of Water Pollution Credits (Oct. 2002) - Wisconsin DNR - web page
Interstate
programs
Chesapeake
Bay
- Chesapeake Bay Program main page - Program factsheet (also
contains information on Conestoga River)
- Chesapeake Bay State pages: Nutrient trading PA DEP webpage, Virginia Watershed Permit webpage, WV Trading Program webpage.
- "Nutrient Trading to maintain the nutrient cap in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed" Workshop proceedings (1998)
- Nutrient Trading In the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Public Workshop Proceedings (Jan 2001) pdf - Public Comments Summary
- "Chesapeake Bay Program Nutrient Trading Fundamental Principles
and Guidelines" document (March 2001) - Endorsement of the Principles (pdf)
- Nutrient Trading for the Chesapeake Bay (April 2001) - report by A.Wiedeman
- Nutrient Credit Trading: the new Bay clean-up tool
- article (2005)
Ohio River Basin
- Ohio River Basin Trading Pilot Project -main page.
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Trading
programs - other countries
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- South
Nation River Watershed, Ontario, Canada
- Website
- Project
Summary
- Total
Phosphorus Management Instruments (pdf), Phosphorus Loading Algorithms for the South Nation (pdf)
- Briefing
note: "Water Quality Trading I: Scientific considerations
for agricultural
pollutants"
- Can Water Quality Trading help to address agricultural sources of pollution in Canada? Policy Research Initiative Final report.
- Bill 99 (Lake Simcoe Protection Act): An Act to protect and restore the ecological health of the Lake Simcoe watershed and to amend the Ontario Water Resources Act in respect of water quality trading (see section 30); "the legislation would provide a framework for the development of a Lake Simcoe Protection Plan that will be able to respond in a coordinated manner throughout the watershed to existing problems and new issues like climate change and invasive species, allowing the government to
adapt its protection efforts as required". Compendium to Lake Simcoe Protection Act (2008)
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The
Dutch Nutrient Quota System:Presentation by Dr. Ada Wossink, Report by Dr. Ada Wossink
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