Puget Sound Water Quality Management Plan 2000

If you have special accommodation needs, or need this document in an alternative format, please contact the Action Team's ADA representative at (360) 407-7300. The Action Team's TDD number is (800) 833-6388. Acknowledgement The Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team acknowledges financial and technical support from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds and EPA’s Region 10. Adopted December 14, 2000 January 2001 To Governor Locke, the Legislature and the Citizens of Washington State: On behalf of the Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team and Puget Sound Council, I am pleased to present you with the 2000 Puget Sound Water Quality Management Plan. This plan, adopted in December 2000 in accordance with state and federal law, lays out a coordinated set of local, state, tribal and federal actions to restore and protect the health of Puget Sound. The first Puget Sound management plan was adopted in 1987. Subsequent revisions in 1989, 1991, 1994 and 1996 updated the state’s approaches to the wide variety of issues facing the Sound. In 1999, the Action Team and Council began another review of the management plan and decided to include two new programs and revise three others in this edition of the plan. We also decided to update and streamline information in all plan programs. The 2000 management plan includes new programs to control and prevent invasions by aquatic nuisance species and to coordinate issues and programs that affect the shared waters of Puget Sound and the Georgia Basin. The stormwater…

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