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Providing Meaningful Water Quality Improvements Through Collaboration and Oversight of Federal Support

The order directs federal agencies to coordinate with Chesapeake Bay watershed jurisdictions and oversee federal support for water-quality projects under the Clean Water Act. It emphasizes measurable pollution reductions while seeking to limit stormwater fees that it says can burden residents and small businesses, noting that by 2025 the watershed had achieved 100 percent of its sediment-reduction goal, 90 percent of its phosphorus goal, and 57 percent of its nitrogen goal.