INTERSTATE AGENCIES

CHESAPEAKE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

Chair: Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., Governor of Maryland

c/o Chesapeake Bay Program
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
410 Severn Ave., Suite 109, Annapolis, MD 21403
(410) 267-5700; fax: (410) 267-5777
e-mail: pstuntz@qwest.net
web: www.chesapeakebay.net/exec.htm


Organizational Structure	Origin & Functions

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

CHESAPEAKE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., Governor of Maryland, Chair (chosen by Council in Nov., 1-year term)

Ex officio: Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., Governor of Maryland; Edward G. Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania; Mark R. Warner, Governor of Virginia; Anthony A. Williams, Mayor, District of Columbia; Michael L. Waugh, Chair, Chesapeake Bay Commission; Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED BLUE RIBBON PANEL

www.chesapeakebay.net/blueribbon.htm

Saving a National Treasure: Financing the Cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay, October 2004

Gerald L. Baliles, Chair

Appointed by signatory members: Bruce Babbitt; William C. Baker; Phyllis M. Cole; Joseph Corrado; Nicholas DeBenedictis; Penelope A. Gross; F. Henry Habicht II; James W. Hubbard; Thomas J. Kelly; James Patrick Muldoon; Jim Perdue, Ph.D.; Terry L. Randall; John McNeil Wilkie; James D. Wilkins II.

CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Contact: Jessica Blackburn (410) 377-6270
e-mail: jblackburn@acb-online.org

J. Andrew Hadley, Chair (chosen by Committee in Nov., 1-year term)

Maryland members appointed by Governor to 4-year terms: Kathleen Webbert Glaser, 2003; William S. Shepard, 2007; H. Richard Siebert, 2007; Lina Vlavianos.

Maryland at-large members appointed by Board of Directors, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay: Verna E. Harrison; G. Steele Phillips.

IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE
Contact: Jake Vandevort (410) 267-5737
e-mail: vandevort.jake@epa.gov

Rebecca Hanmer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chair

Maryland members representing State agencies: vacancy, Dept. of Agriculture; Richard A. Eskin, Ph.D., Dept. of the Environment; Matthew J. Fleming, Dept. of Natural Resources.

Committee chairs:
Diana Esher, Budget Steering Committee
Rebecca Hanmer, Federal Agencies Committee

Subcommittee chairs:
Robert Campbell (National Park Service), Communications & Education Subcommittee
Nancie Imler (Pennsylvania), Information Management Subcommittee
Ted Graham (Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments), Land, Growth & Stewardship Subcommittee
Matthew J. Fleming (Maryland), Living Resources Subcommittee
James R. Collier (District of Columbia), Modeling Subcommittee
Carlton Haywood (Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin), Monitoring Subcommittee
Thomas W. Simpson, Ph.D. (Maryland), Nutrient Subcommittee
Richard A. Eskin, Ph.D. (Maryland), Toxics Subcommittee

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY PROGRAM
Contact: Pat Devlin (717) 236-8825
e-mail: pdevlin@acb-online.org

Russell Pettyjohn, Pennsylvania, Chair (chosen by Committee in March, 1-year term)

Maryland members appointed by Governor: Effie M. Elzey; Phyllis E. Kilby; Ellen O. Moyer; Kelly Porter; Marilyn J. Praisner; Robert C. Willey.

PRINCIPALS' STAFF COMMITTEE
Kathleen A. McGinty, Pennsylvania, Chair

Maryland members: Lewis R. Riley, Secretary of Agriculture; Kendl P. Philbrick, Secretary of the Environment; C. Ronald Franks; Secretary of Natural Resources; Audrey E. Scott, Secretary of Planning

SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Contact: Melissa Fagan (410) 798-1283
e-mail: faganm@si.edu

Carl H. Hershner, Ph.D., Virginia, Chair (chosen by Committee in March, 1-year term)

Maryland members: Donald F. Boesch, Ph.D.; William M. Kemp, Ph.D.; Gerrit Knaap, Ph.D.; Jonathan G. Kramer, Ph.D.; Douglas W. Lipton, Ph.D.; Michael J. Paolisso, Ph.D.; Lawrence Sanford, Ph.D.; David H. Secor, Ph.D.; Thomas W. Simpson, Ph.D.; Richard A. Weismiller, Ph.D.; Claire Welty, Ph.D.