# Presentation: 338371

##  Appendix: AMeasures Supporting theNational Water Program Guidance for FY 2007 

-  **Appendix: A****Measures Supporting the****National Water Program Guidance ****for FY 2007**

**Office of Water**
**U.S. Environmental Protection Agency**
**April 21, 2006**

## Table of Contents  

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- 		         1)	   Water Safe to Drink					3
- Fish and Shellfish Safe to Eat				28
- Water Safe for Swimming				32
- Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis	39
- Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters			78
- Protect Wetlands					91
- Protect Mexico Border Water Quality			97
- Protect the Great Lakes				101
- Protect the Chesapeake Bay				109
- Protect the Gulf of Mexico				114

## EPA Office of Water Program Offices 

**and Great Water Body Offices **

- OGWDW     	EPA Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water
- OST              	EPA Office of Science and Technology
- OWOW        	EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds
- OWM           	EPA Office of Wastewater Management
- GLNPO        	EPA Great Lakes National Program Office
- CBPO           	EPA Chesapeake Bay National Program Office
- GMPO          	EPA Gulf of Mexico National Program Office

## Water Safe to Drink

- _Program Activity Measures:_
-  Implement Standards (SDW: 1-5)
-  Water System Financing (SDW: 6-7)
-  Water Security (SDW: 8)
-  Underground Injection Control (SDW: 9-12)
-   Surface Water Protection (SDW: 13-15)

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets_

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure #: Subobjective 2.1.1****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description: **Percent of the population served by community water systems that receive drinking water that meets all applicable health-based drinking water standards through effective treatment and source water protection.

**2008 Target:  **95%

- Target measure
- * FY 05 End-of-year data is taken from SDWIS.
- ** FY 06 national commitment total adjusted from 90.5% to 90.9% to reflect weighted regional commitments.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure #: Strategic Target A****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description: **Percent of the population served by community water systems that receive drinking water that meets health-based drinking water standards with which systems need to comply as of December 2001.

**2008 Target:  **95%

- Target measure
- * FY 05 End-of-year data is taken from SDWIS.
- ** FY 06 national commitment total adjusted from 92.3% to 92.5% to reflect weighted regional commitments.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure #: Strategic Target B****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description: **Percent of population served by community water systems that receive drinking water that meets health-based standards with a compliance date of January 2002 or later.

**2008 Target:  **80%

- Target measure
- * FY 05 End-of-year data is taken from SDWIS.
- ** FY 06 national commitment total adjusted from 74.5% to 75% to reflect weighted regional commitments.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure #: Strategic Target C****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description: **Percent of community water systems that provide drinking water that meets health-based standards with which systems need to comply as of December 2001.

- Target measure
- * FY 05 End-of-year data is taken from SDWIS.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**2008 Target:  **95%

## Water Safe to Drink

- Target measure
- * FY 05 End-of-year data is taken from SDWIS.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target D****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description: **Percent of community water systems that provide drinking water that meets health-based standards with a compliance date of January 2002 or later.

**2008 Target:  **80%

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure #: Strategic Target E****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description: **Percent of the population served by community water systems in Indian country that receive drinking water that meets all applicable health-based drinking water standards.

- Target measure
- * FY 05 End-of-year data is taken from SDWIS.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**2008 Target: **95%

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure #: Strategic Target F****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description: **Percent of source water areas (both surface and ground water) for community water systems that achieve minimized risk to public health. (cumulative)

**2008 Target:  **50%

- Target measure
- Note: “Minimized risk” is achieved by the substantial implementation, as determined by the state of source water protection actions in a source water protection strategy.
- For purposes of this measure, “source  water areas” are treated as community water systems; universe is the number of community water systems.
- * FY 06 national commitment total adjusted from 14% to 12.7% to reflect weighted regional commitments.
- ** 2006 Adjusted is an adjustment of the FY 06 commitment to reflect FY 05 results.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

## Water Safe to Drink

- Target measure; HQ reported measure.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target G****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description: **Number of households on Tribal lands lacking access to safe drinking water.

**2015 Target:  **22,000 households

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:  **Percent of community water systems (CWSs) and number of tribal community water systems that have undergone a sanitary survey within three years of their last sanitary survey (five years for outstanding performers) as required under the Interim Enhanced and Long-Term 1 Surface Water Treatment Rules.

**2008 Target**: 95%

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-1 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW

- Target measure
- NOTE:  In FY 06, this measure tracked states, rather than CWSs, in compliance with this regulation.

**(SDW-1a) CWSs in States: **

**(SDW-1b) CWSs in Tribes: **

**2008 Target**: n/a

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure #: SDW-2 (new)****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description:  **Percent of the data for violations of health-based standards at public water systems that is accurate and complete in SDWIS-FED for all maximum contaminant level and treatment technique rules (excluding the Lead and Copper Rule).  [based on three-year rolling data from data verification audits]  (Indicator measure; HQ reported measure.)

**2008 Target**: n/a

**2008 Target: **n/a

**# SDW-2**

**#SDW-3**

**Measure #: SDW-3 (new)****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description:**  Percent of the Lead and Copper Rule action level data for community water systems serving over 3,300 people that is complete in SDWIS-FED. (Indicator measure; HQ reported measure.)

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure #: SDW-4 (new)****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW
**Measure Description:  **Percent of community water systems and non-transient, non-community water systems that do not exceed the action level for lead of 15 ppb at the 90th percentile value.

**2008 Target**: n/a

- Indicator measure; HQ reported measure.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**2008 Target: **n/a

**(SDW-4a) Community water systems:**

**(SDW-4b) Non-transient, non-community water systems:**

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:  **Percent of “person months” (i.e., the population served by community water systems times 12 months) during which community water systems provide drinking water that meets all applicable health-based drinking water standards.

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-5 (new) ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW**	****	**

- Indicator measure

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:  **Fund utilization rate [cumulative dollar amount of loan agreements divided by cumulative funds available for projects] for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF).

**2008 Target:  **86%

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-6 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW**	****	**

- Target measure
- *  FY 06 national commitment total adjusted from 82% to 81.3% to reflect weighted regional commitments.

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:** The number of Drinking Water State Revolving Fund projects that have initiated operations and the number that will assist in returning a community water system to compliance with drinking water standards. (cumulative)

**2008 Target:  **TBD

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-7 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW**	**

- SDW-7a is a Target measure and SDW-7b is an Indicator measure.
- * 2006 PART annual target is 425.  ** 2007 Target: Regions should use the national target as a point of reference in working with States to develop Regional commitments during the summer of 2006.  Annual target for FY 2007 is 430.

**(SDW-7a) Projects Initiated:**

**(SDW-7b) Projects Returning a CWS to Compliance:**

**2008 Target:  **n/a

## Water Safe to Drink 

- Water Safe to Drink

**Measure #:  SDW-8****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OGWDW
**Measure Description:  ** EPA will install and begin initial operations of monitoring and surveillance pilots to provide early warning of contamination in select drinking water systems.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure; HQ reported measure.

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:  **Separately for each class of well, the percent of Class I, II, III wells identified in significant violation, and Class V wells identified in violation, that are addressed by the Underground Injection Control (UIC) program.

**2008 Target:  **100%

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-9 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW**	****	**

- Target measure. * Baseline - Under the FY03 pilot for this measure, too few states provided information to draw a baseline.
- The universe reflects FY 05; it is variable and is provided only as a point of reference.

**(SDW 9a) Class I:**

**(SDW-9b) Class II:**

**2008 Target:  **100%

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:  **Separately for each class of well, the percent of Class I, II, III wells identified in significant violation, and Class V wells identified in violation, that are addressed by the UIC program.

**2008 Target:  **100%

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure . * Baseline - Under the FY03 pilot for this measure, too few states provided information to draw a baseline. Region 1 does not have Class III wells.
- The universe reflects FY 05; it is variable and is provided only as a point of reference.

**Measure #: SDW-9, continued****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW

**(SDW-9c) Class III:**

**(SDW-9d) Class V:**

**2008 Target:  **100%

## Water Safe to Drink

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-10 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW**	****	**

- Target measure
- * Baseline - Under the FY03 pilot for this measure, too few states provided information to draw a baseline/universe.
- The universe reflects FY 05; it is variable and is provided only as a point of reference.

**2008 Target:  **n/a** **

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:  **Separately for each class of wells, the percent of Class I, II and III (salt solution mining wells Class III only) that maintain mechanical integrity.

**2008 Target:  **n/a** **

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-11 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW

- Indicator measure
- * Universe subject to change.

**(SDW-11a) Class I:**

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:  **Separately, for each class of wells, the percent of Class I, II and III (salt solution mining wells Class III only) that maintain mechanical integrity.

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Indicator measure
- * Universe subject to change.
- Class III FY 05 Inventory: R1: n/a; R2: 125; R3: 53; R4: 3; R5: 96; R6: 4,692; R7: 3,088; R8: 10,320; 	R9: 135; R10: n/a.

**Measure #: SDW-11, continued****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW**	****	**

**(SDW-11b) Class II:**

**(SDW-11c) Class III:**

**2008 Target:  **n/a

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:  **Number, and national percent, of high priority Class V wells identified in ground water based community water system source water areas that are closed or permitted.

**2008 Target:  **n/a** **

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-12 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW

- Indicator measure
- * Programs still need to improve their capabilities to map source water areas with UIC wells to be able to provide reliable data.

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:**  Percent of community water system intakes using source water that has been designated for a drinking water use.

**2008 Target:  **n/a** **

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-13 ****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW/OST**	**

- Indicator measure
- The initial baseline of 32 States will be determined in 2006.

## Water Safe to Drink

**Measure Description:  **Percent of community water system intakes for which the source water was assessed for the drinking water use during the most recent reporting cycle.

**2008 Target:  **n/a** **

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-14 ****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW/OWOW**	****	**

- Indicator measure
- HQ reports results by Region/nationally, based on data collected to support Clean Water Act (CWA) measures when such data becomes available.  The number of states reporting drinking water use assessments to the Assessment Database (ADB) under the Integrated Reporting Guidance will increase over time.

## Baselines and targets to be determined in consultation with OWOW after geo-referencing baseline has been established for Clean Water Act (CWA) reporting and with consideration of targets established for CWA reporting. HQ reports results by Region/nationally based on data collected to support Subobjective 2.2.1.

**Measure Description:  **Percent of waterbody impairments identified by States in 2002, in which there is a community water system intake and the impairment cause is for either a drinking water use or a pollutant that is regulated as a drinking water contaminant, for which there is: (a) a TMDL, and (b) those waterbody impairments have been restored.

**2008 Target:  **n/a** **

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: SDW-15****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OGWDW/OWOW**	****	**

- Indicator measure
- Baselines and targets to be determined in consultation with OWOW after geo-referencing baseline has been established for Clean Water Act (CWA) reporting and with consideration of targets established for CWA reporting. HQ reports results by Region/nationally based on data collected to support Subobjective 2.2.1.

- Water Safe to Drink

## Fish and Shellfish 

**Safe to Eat**

- _Program Activity Measures:_
-   States/Tribes Adopting Mercury Criterion (FS-1)
-   Lake Acres/River Miles Where Fish Tissue Assessed (FS-2)

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets:_

## Fish and Shellfish Safe to Eat

**Measure #: Strategic Target H****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OST
**Measure Description:  **Improve the quality of water and sediments to allow for increased consumption of safe fish in a percentage of the river miles/lake acres identified by States or Tribes as having a fish consumption advisory in 2002.

**2008 Target:  **3%

- Target measures; HQ reported measures. (applies to measures H and I)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target I****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OST
**Measure Description:  **Increase the percentage of shellfish-growing acres monitored by States that are approved or conditionally approved for use.

**2008 Target:  **91%

**H**

**I**

## Fish and Shellfish Safe to Eat

**Measure Description:  **Number of States, Territories and authorized Tribes that have adopted the new fish tissue criterion for mercury.

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: FS-1****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: **OST

- Indicator measure; Regions report.  * FY 05 End-of-year data is not from ACS.
- Universe: States = 50; Territories = 6; Authorized Tribes with any approved water quality standards = 26.

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**(FS-1a) States/Territories:**

**(FS-1b) Tribes:**

## Fish and Shellfish Safe to Eat

**Measure Description:  **Percent of river miles and lake acres where fish tissue will be assessed to support waterbody-specific or regional consumption advisories or a determination that no consumption advice is necessary.  (Great Lakes measured separately; AK not included.)

**(FS-2b) Lake Acres:****	**

**(FS-2a) River Miles:****	****	****	****	****	****	**

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure; HQ reports results by Region/nationally.
- * The 2002 baseline for River Miles is 544,036 and the 2002 baseline for Lake Acres is 13.5 million.

**2008 Target:  **40%

**2008 Target: **28%

## Water Safe for Swimming

- _Program Activity Measures:_
- -  New Pathogen Criteria Adaptation (SS: 1)
-   Pathogen Reduction (i.e., CSOs/septic tanks) (SS:  2-3)
-   State BEACH Monitoring (SS: 4)

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets_

## Water Safe for Swimming

**Measure #: Subobjective 2.1.3****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWOW/OST
**Measure Description:  **Restore water quality to allow swimming in waters identified by States in 2000 as unsafe for swimming.

**2008 Target:  **5% of impaired waters restored

- Target measure; HQ reported measure.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

## Water Safe for Swimming

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**2008 Target: **96%

**Measure #: Strategic Target K****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OST
**Measure Description:  **Percent of days of the beach season that coastal and Great Lakes beaches monitored by state beach safety programs will be open and safe for swimming.

- Target measure
- * FY 05 Regional End-of-Year data is not from ACS.
- ** This measure was a national commitment only in FY 2006.

## Water Safe for Swimming

**Measure Description: **Number of States, Territories, and Tribes that have adopted current pathogen criteria for non-coastal recreational waters (i.e. waters not covered by the BEACH Act).

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Indicator measure.  Note: FY 05 PAM addressed coastal recreational water, rather than non-coastal
-  recreational waters, and was substantially accomplished.

**Measure #:  SS-1****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: **OST

**(SS-1a) States/Territories:**

**(SS-1b) Tribes:**

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**2008 Target: **n/a

## Water Safe for Swimming

- Note: Region 4’s universe has changed from 28 in FY 06 since Atlanta combined several permits into one.  In addition, some numbers previously reported for KY have been determined not to meet the requirements of the measure.

**Measure Description: **Number, and national percent, of CSO permits with schedules in place in permits or other enforceable mechanisms to implement approved Long Term Control Plans (LTCPs). (cumulative)

**2008 Target:  **75% (622)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  SS-2****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: **OWM

## Water Safe for Swimming

**Measure Description:  **Number of States that have adopted the Voluntary Management Guidelines for on-site sewage management. (cumulative)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  SS-3****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: **OWM

- Indicator measure
- 2005 State Baseline: Rhode Island, New Jersey, North Carolina, Florida, Arizona, and Iowa.

**2008 Target:  **n/a

## Water Safe for Swimming

**Measure Description:  **Percent of all Tier I (significant) public beaches that are monitored and managed under the BEACH Act program.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  SS-4****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: **OST

- Target measure
- States may change their designation of beaches at any time.  Therefore, these numbers may change from year to year.
- No BEACH Act implementation in 2002.

**2008 Target: **100%

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

- _Program Activity Measures:_
- - Water Quality Standards (WQ: 1-6)
-   Monitoring (WQ: 7-12)
-   TMDLs (WQ: 13-14)
-   Nonpoint Source Pollution Control (WQ: 15-16)
-   Discharge Permit Program (WQ: 17-22)
-   POTW Financing and Operations (WQ: 23-26)
-  Restore and Improve Watersheds (WQ: 27-33)

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets_

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target:  **450

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  2.2.1****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure; 2.2.1a is regionally reported and 2.2.1b is HQ reported.

**2008 Target:  **TBD

**2.2.1a :**** **Watersheds where water quality standards are met in at least 80% of the assessed waters segments.

**2.2.1b:****  **The number of the watersheds where all assessed water segments maintain their quality and at least 20% of assessed water segments show improvement above conditions as of 2002.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:  **Number and national percent of those waterbodies identified in 2000 as not attaining standards where water quality standards are restored. (cumulative)

**2012 Target: **25% (5,408)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  Strategic Target L****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure
- *  FY 05 end-of-year results increased from 8.2 to 9% as a result of corrected data.
- **  FY 06 commitments adjusted to correctly report cumulative numbers. For Region 1, 72   	waterbodies will attain standards except for mercury.  For Region 1 in FY 07, 206  	(annual) and 278 (cumulative) waterbodies will attain standards except for mercury.
- ***  Note: FY 06 adjusted line is the higher of the FY 05 adjusted end-of-year or FY 06 commitment.
-  ▲ FY 07 Targets under review.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure #: Strategic Target N****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWOW
**Measure Description:  **Show improvement of at least 10% in each of four key parameters at a number of the 900 water monitoring stations in tribal waters.

**2008 Target:  **90 stations

- Target measures; HQ reported measures. (applies to measures N and O)
- For Measure N, (i.e., shows at least a 10% improvement for each of four key parameters: total nitrogen,
-  total phosphorus, dissolved oxygen, and fecal coliforms.)  (900 stations nationwide)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target O****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWM
**Measure Description: **Reduce the number of households on tribal lands lacking access to basic sanitation.

**2015 Target:  **35,000

**N**

**O**

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target:  **Target set annually* *(changed from 3 per year in FY 06 National Program Guidance)

**Measure #:  WQ-1****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OST
**Measure Description:  **Number of new or revised pollutant criteria documents published in draft or final by Headquarters annually that assist states and tribes to better control water pollution through improved water quality standards and ecological/human health risk assessment under the Clean Water Act.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure; HQ reported measure.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:  **Number of States and Territories that have adopted EPA approved nutrient criteria into their water quality standards, or are on schedule with a mutually agreed-upon plan to adopt nutrient criteria into their water quality standards.

**2008 Target: **TBD

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-2****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OST

- Target measure
- Until a state or territory has adopted nutrient water quality standards for all its applicable waters, it may be counted in both WQ-2a and WQ-2b

**(WQ-2a): States/Territories that have adopted approved nutrient criteria (cumulative)**

**(WQ-2b): States/territories on schedule to adopt nutrient criteria (annual)**

**2008 Target: **TBD

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:  **Number of States and Territories that have incorporated into their water quality programs for streams and small rivers, quantitative biological criteria that are used to help assess attainment of water quality standards.  [Note: biological criteria may include quantitative endpoints or narrative criteria with quantitative implementation procedures or translators]. (cumulative)

**2008 Target:  **TBD

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-3****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OST

- Target measure

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:  **Number of Tribes that have water quality standards approved by EPA. (cumulative)

**2008 Target:  **36

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure
- The universe reflects all Federally recognized Tribes who have applied for “treatment in the same manner as a
- state” (TAS) to administer the water quality standards program (as of January 2005).

**Measure #:  WQ-4****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OST

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:  **Number, and national percent, of States and Territories and authorized Tribes that within the preceding three year period, submitted new or revised water quality criteria acceptable to EPA that reflect new scientific information from EPA or other resources not considered in the previous standards.

**2008 Target: **TBD

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-5****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OST

- Target measure  (to conform with 106 PART measure).  (Indicator in FY 06.)  Universe is number of States/Territories and Tribes that have EPA approved water quality standards as of April 2006 (to be updated in September 2006).
-  * This is the first submission for this tribe in Region 2.  Until approved, it will not be counted as part of the universe.

**(WQ-5a) States/Territories:**

**(WQ-5b) Authorized Tribes:**

**2008 Target: **TBD

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:  **Percent of State/Territorial and Tribal water quality standards submissions (received in the 12 month period ending April 30th of the fiscal year) that are approved by EPA.  Partial approvals receive fractional credit.

**2008 Target**: TBD

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-6****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OST

- Target measure (to conform with SWP PART measure). * FY 06 commitment was for percent of state/territorial and tribal standards approvals.  Universe changes annually based on number of WQS submissions. Submissions with partial approvals will receive proportionate credit.

**(WQ-6a) States/Territories:**

**(WQ-6b) Tribes:**

**2008 Target**: TBD

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure #:  WQ-7****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

**Measure Description:  **Number of States and Territories that have adopted and are implementing their monitoring strategies in keeping with established schedules.

**2008 Target:  **56

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure
- “In keeping with established schedules" means that states include in their annual Section 106 Monitoring Initiative workplans specific actions that are intended to implement their monitoring strategies and that states demonstrate that they are making a good faith effort to do these activities.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

- * FY 06 Commitment deferred pending development of tribal monitoring guidance.

**Measure Description:  **Number of Tribes that currently receive funding under Section 106 of the Clean Water Act that have developed and begun implementing monitoring strategies that are appropriate to their water quality program consistent with EPA Guidance, and the number that are providing water quality data in a format accessible for storage in EPA’s data system.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-8****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

**2008 Target: **TBD

**2008 Target: **TBD

**(WQ-8a) Tribes implementing monitoring strategies:**

**(WQ-8b) Tribes providing water quality data:**

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target:  **TBD

**Measure #:  WQ-9****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW
**Measure Description:  ** Number of national probabilistic monitoring assessments completed.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure; HQ reported measure.
- Note: FY 06 baseline reflects streams having been assessed using statistically valid surveys.  Assessments of lakes and rivers are expected in future years.   (ACS shows FY 06 commitment as a percentage.)

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:  **Number of States and Territories that provide Integrated Reports consistent with EPA’s guidance for Assessment, Listing, and Reporting requirements pursuant to Sections 303(d), 305(b), and 314 of the Clean Water Act. (cumulative)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-10****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure

**2008 Target**: 50

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description: **Number of States and Territories using the Assessment Database (ADB) (or compatible electronic format) to record their assessment decisions (Integrated Report/303(d)/305(b)) and provide geo-referencing information for assessment unit locations. (cumulative)

**2008 Target:   **at least 50 states/territories

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-11****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure
- Regions and States are encouraged to make strong progress towards adoption of ADB or compatible electronic formats in FY 07.  Data from the ADB (version 2)(or in a compatible format) are needed to efficiently document outcomes of the surface water protection and section 106 grant programs; these data support measures used in OMB PART and annual budget reviews of these programs.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure #:  WQ-12****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OST

**Measure Description: **Number of methods developed or validated for new or emerging biological or chemical contaminants.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**2008 Target: **Target set annually

- Target measure; HQ reported measure.
- More than 200 analytical methods have been approved by EPA, and those methods are listed in 40 CFR 136.  Additions and revisions to part 136 reflect development of new methods and new approvals for updated methods.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description: **Number of TMDLs, and national percent, that are established by states or EPA on a schedule consistent with national policy.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-13****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure; annual pace is number of TMDLs needed to be established consistent with national policy, i.e. generally within 13 years of listing of the water as impaired. * FY 06 numbers reflect revisions received from the Regions as of 1/19/06.  They do not reflect data in ACS.  2006 and 2007 WQ-13 a and b pace totals are adjusted from 5,521 and 5,409 respectively for Pennsylvania scaling.  2008 Targets will be refined as we develop 2008 pace numbers.

- Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target:  **3,524

**(WQ-13a) Total TMDLs:**

**(WQ-13b) TMDLs developed by States:**

**2008 Target:  **3,412

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:  **Number of TMDLs for impaired waterbodies which affect Tribal waters approved by EPA where the Tribe participated in the TMDL or comparable watershed restoration planning process.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-14****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure

**2008 Target:  **n/a

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:** Estimated annual reduction in million pounds of nitrogen, phosphorus, and tons of sediment from nonpoint sources to waterbodies (Section 319 funded projects only).

**2008 Target:  **8.5 million lbs

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-15****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure; HQ reported measure; PART measure.  (Indicator measure in FY 06.)
- FY 05 End-of-year totals are actually for a 6 month period only, starting with FY 06, a full year of data will be reported.

- Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target:  **4.5 million lbs

**2008 Target:  **700,000 tons

**(WQ-15a) Nitrogen:**

**(WQ-15b) Phosphorus:**

**(WQ-15c) Sediment:**

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description: **Number of waterbodies identified by States (in 2000 or subsequent years) as being primarily NPS-impaired that are partially or fully restored. (cumulative)

**2008 Target:  **250

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-16****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure; HQ reports results by Region; PART measure.
- The universe is the estimated waterbodies impaired primarily by nonpoint source.
- Only counting waters on Success Story website – approximately 10 waters are to be added in the short-term.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-17****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Indicator measure; Regional counts are confirmed by HQ action item database.
- * FY 05 End-of-year data is not from ACS.
- Assessed programs include 45 authorized states (excluding MA, NH, NM, AK, ID), 1 authorized territory (VI), and 10 Regions assessed through the Permits for Environmental Results (PER) program.
- Universe is 295 includes all follow-up actions for which a schedule was established.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:**  Number, and national percent, of non-tribal NPDES permits that are considered current and number, and national percent, of tribal permits that are considered current.

**2008 Target: **90%

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-18****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Target measure
- *  FY 05 End-of-year data is not from ACS.

**2008 Target: **90%

**(WQ-18a) Non-tribal NPDES permits that are current:**

**(WQ-18b) Tribal permits that are current:**

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **100%

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-19 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Target measure; PART measure.

- Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **100%

**(WQ-19a) Industrial:**

**(WQ-19b) Construction: **

**Measure Description:**  Number, and national percent of Phase I and Phase II stormwater permits that are issued and current for: (a) industrial stormwater general permits; (b) construction stormwater general permits; and (c) MS-4 general and individual permits.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-19, continued ****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Target measure; PART measure.

- Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **100%

**(WQ-19c) MS-4:**

**Measure Description:**  Number, and national percent of Phase I and Phase II stormwater permits that are issued and current for: (a) industrial stormwater general permits; (b) construction stormwater general permits; and (c) MS-4 general and individual permits.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-20 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Indicator measure

- Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **n/a

**(WQ-20a) MS-4s: **

**(WQ-20b) Industrial storm water: **

**Measure Description:**  Number, and national percent, of facilities covered under either an individual or general permit by type: (a) MS-4s (including co-permitees); (b) industrial storm water; (c) construction storm water; and (d) CAFOs.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-20, continued****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Indicator measure

- Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **n/a

**(WQ-20c) Construction storm water: **

**(WQ-20d) CAFOs: **

**Measure Description:**  Number, and national percent, of facilities covered under either an individual or general permit by type: (a) MS-4s (including co-permitees); (b) industrial storm water; (c) construction storm water; and (d) CAFOs.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target:  **95%

**Measure #:  WQ-21****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

**(WQ-21b) CIUs:****	****	****	**

**2008 Target:  **n/a

- WQ-21a is a Target measure and WQ-21b is an Indicator measure. * FY 05 End-of-Year numbers are percents in ACS.
- For CIUs:  Universe is the number of known CIUs discharging to POTWs without Approved Treatment Programs. The universe for Region 4 now includes AL and MS CIUs which are permitted by the states.
-  Baseline is the known percentage of those CIUs that are ‘controlled’ in some way, shape, or form.

- Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**(WQ-21a)  SIUs:**

**National Program Manager Comments:**

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure #:  WQ-22 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

**Measure Description: **Percent of major dischargers in Significant Noncompliance (SNC) at any time during the fiscal year, and of those, the number, and national percent, discharging the pollutant(s) of concern on impaired waters.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**2008 Target: ≤** 22.5

**(WQ-22a)  Percent of Major Dischargers in SNC:**

**(WQ-22b)  Number of Major Dischargers on Impaired Waters in SNC:**

**2008 Target: **n/a

- WQ-22a is a Target measure and WQ-22b is an Indicator measure.  HQ reports results by Region. (WQ-22a is a 106 PART measure; Target of **≤**22.5% is a** **3 year average that shows overall trends.)  *  FY 05 End-of-year data is not from ACS.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target:  **TBD

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-23 ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Target measure (PART measure)

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target:  **94%

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-24****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Target measure

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-25****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Target measure; HQ reported measure; SRF PART measure.

**(WQ-25a) Number of waterbodies restored/improved:**

**(WQ-25b) Number of waterbodies protected:**

**2008 Target:  **TBD

**2008 Target:  **TBD

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-26****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Indicator measure; HQ reported measure.

**2008 Target: **n/a

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description: **Number of watershed-based plans supported under State Nonpoint Source Management Programs since the beginning of FY 2002 that have been substantially implemented. (cumulative)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-27****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure in FY 2007.  (Target measure in FY 05 and FY 06.)
- * FY 06 Commitments are not from ACS.

**2008 Target: **n/a

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description:  **Number of Tribes that have developed and begun to implement a watershed based-plan for tribal waters.

**2008 Target: **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-28****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description: **Number, and national percent, of high priority *state *NPDES permits; high priority EPA *non-tribal *NPDES permits; and high priority *tribal* NPDES permits, that are issued as scheduled.

**2008 Target:  **95%

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-29****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

**(WQ-29a) High priority state NPDES permits:**

**(WQ-29b) High priority EPA non-Tribal NPDES permits:**

**(WQ-29c) High priority Tribal NPDES permits:**

**2008 Target:  **95%

**2008 Target:  **95%

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-30****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- WQ-30a is Target measure (FY 05 End-of-year total will be baseline in future years to ensure accuracy).  WQ-30b is an Indicator measure (Universe is the number of dischargers covered under a permit under WQ-30a).  * FY 05 End-of-year data is not from ACS.

**2008 Target**: 110

**(WQ-30a) Number of Permits Providing for Trading:**

**(WQ-30b) Number of Dischargers that Carried Out Trades (cumulative):**

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-31****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Indicator measure
- The FY 06 measure has been revised to no longer request information on rotating basins; the revised measure counts permits rather than watersheds.  Watershed-based permits are as defined in EPA watershed-based permitting implementation guidance.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**2008 Target: **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-32****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWM

- Indicator measure
- Note:  Improved means that one or more of the impairment causes identified in 2002 are removed for at least 40% of the impaired waterbodies or impaired miles/acres.
- * Universe of an estimated 0 watersheds improved of an estimated 40,000 – 50,000 impaired USGS 12 digit watersheds with one or more waterbody impaired.

## Restore and Improve Water Quality on a Watershed Basis

**Measure Description: **Number of water segments known to be impaired or threatened for which States and EPA agree that initial restoration planning is complete (e.g. EPA has approved all needed TMDLs for pollutants causing impairments to the waterbody or has approved a 303(d) list that recognizes that the waterbody is covered by a Watershed Plan (Category 4b)). (cumulative)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WQ-33****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure
- Universe consists of waters identified as impaired in state submissions in 1998 and 2000.

**2008 Target:  **n/a

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

- _Program Activity Measures:_
- -  Coastal Monitoring (CO: 1-2)
- -  Coastal State Programs (CO: 3)
- -  National Estuary Program (CO: 4-6)
-   Ocean Protection (CO: 7-9)

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets_

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**Measure #: Subobjective 2.2.2****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWOW
**Measure Description:  **Improve national and regional coastal aquatic system health on the “good/fair/poor” scale of the National Coastal Condition Report.  (Rating is a 5-point system where 1 is poor and 5 is good.

**2008 Target:  **2.6*

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target P****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWOW
**Measure Description:  **Maintain water clarity and dissolved oxygen in coastal waters at the national levels reported in the 2002 National Coastal Condition Report.

**2008 Target:  **Maintain clarity at 4.3;
-                           dissolved oxygen at 4.5*

**2.2.2**

**P**

- Target measures; HQ reported measures. (applies to measures 2.2.2 and P)
- * FY 2008 Target for both measures are fixed in *2003-2008* *Strategic Plan*; to be revised in FY 07.)

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**Measure Description:  **Improve ratings reported on the national "good/fair/poor" scale of the National Coastal Condition Report for:

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  Strategic Target Q****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure; HQ reported measure.
- *2008 Target fixed in *2003-2008 Strategic Plan*; to be revised in FY 07.

**2008 Target:  **1.6*

**2008 Target:  **1.9*

**2008 Target:  **1.5*

**2008 Target:  **1.6*

**(Q1) Coastal Wetlands Loss:**

**(Q3) Benthic Quality:**

**(Q4) Eutrophic Conditions:**

**(Q2) Contamination of Sediments:**

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**Measure #:  IV-D****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

**2008 Target: **250,000 cumulative

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure
- Note:  FY 05 End-of-year regional data is not from ACS and is cumulative.
- * FY 07 Targets under review.
- FY 08 Target is fixed in 2003-2008 Strategic Plan; to be revised in FY 07.

**Measure Description:  **Working with National Estuary Program partners, protect or restore additional acres of habitat within the study areas for the 28 estuaries that are part of the National Estuary Program (NEP). (cumulative)

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**Measure #:  CO-1****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW
**Measure Description:  **Headquarters to publish a revised National Coastal Condition Report describing the quality of the Nation’s ocean and coastal waters.

**2008 Target:  **TBD

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure; HQ reported measure.

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**Measure #:  CO-2 (new) ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure Description:  **Number of coastal waterbody impairments restored.

- Indicator measure
- Each impairment counts; universe of number of impairments in coastal waters is under development.

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**2008 Target**: n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  CO-3 (new)****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure
- Note that coastline mileages were estimated using Reachfile version 1 at a 1:300,000 scale.  Coarse scales such as this will produce an under accounting of actual miles; however, this under accounting is consistent across Regions and the overarching universe of coastline miles.  As better data becomes available, we will revise these estimates.  Note also that the numbers for Regions 2, 9, and 10 respectively do not include coastline miles for Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Hawaii, or Alaska.

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**Measure #:  CO-4 (new) ****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure Description:****  **Number of coastal waterbody impairments restored within NEP study areas.

- Indicator measure
- * Universe of coastal waterbody impairments in NEP study areas is under development.

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  CO-5****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**(CO-5a) Priority actions initiated (in current reporting year):**

**(CO 5b) Priority actions completed (cumulative):**

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**2008 Target**: n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  CO-6****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure  (Dollars in millions and rounded to nearest tenth of a percent.)
- Note that “primary” leveraged dollars are those the National Estuary Program (NEP) played the central role in obtaining.  An example of primary leveraged dollars would be those obtained from a successful grant proposal written by the NEP.

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  CO-7****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure
- *This number represents major coastal/Great Lakes ports/harbors (commercially significant/ deep draft and regionally significant).  Development of a dredged material management plan is not necessary or feasible for all ports and harbors in the universe.

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**2008 Target: **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  CO-8****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**(CO-8b) Sites where action initiated: **

**(CO-8a) Sites monitored each year:**

## Protect Coastal and Ocean Waters

**Measure #:  CO-9 (new)****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

**Measure Description:  **Number of active dredged material ocean dumping sites achieving environmentally acceptable conditions (as reflected in each site’s Site Management Plan) in the reporting year.

- Indicator measure
- Note: This measure is proposed for inclusion in the *2006-2011 Strategic Plan*.  It is being included in FY 07 as an Indicator measure only.

## Protect Wetlands

- _Program Activity Measures:_
- - Number of  Wetland Acres Restored/Enhanced (WT-1)
- - Number of States/Tribes Building Capacity (WT-2)
-  Number Watershed-based Projects Supported by EPA (WT-3)
-  Number States Measuring Trends in Condition (WT-4)

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets_

## Protect Wetlands

**Measure #: Subobjective 4.3.2****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWOW
**Measure Description:  **Working with partners, achieve a net increase of acres of wetlands per year with additional focus on biological and functional measures. (cumulative)

- Target measures; HQ reported measures. (applies to measures 4.3.2 and IV-E)  Data source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Wetland Status and Trends Report.  * FY 05 End-of-year data is not from ACS.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target IV-E****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWOW
**Measure Description:  **Annually, beginning in FY 2004, work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) and other partners to achieve no net loss of wetlands under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act regulatory program.

**4.3.2**

**IV-E**

**2008 Target:  **400,000 cumulative (100,000 per year)

**2008 Target:  **No Net Loss

## Protect Wetlands

**2008 Target:  **9,600
**2009 Target:** 12,000

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WT-1****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure; HQ reported measure.
- These acres may include those supported by Wetland 5 Star Restoration Grants, National Estuary Program, Section 319 grants, Brownfields grants, or EPA’s Great Waterbodies Program.

## Protect Wetlands

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WT-2****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure.  Substantial progress to be shown in three of the six areas identified during the last 3 years (i.e. monitoring, regulation, restoration, water quality standards, mitigation compliance, and partnership building).

**(WT-2a) States:**

**(WT-2b) Tribes:**

**2008 Target: ** n/a

**2008 Target:  **n/a

## Protect Wetlands

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WT-3****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Indicator measure (changed Tribal indicator to be consistent with the way we are tracking states).
- Note: WT-3a is reported by Regions and HQ.

**2008 Target:  **n/a

**(WT-3a) State Projects:**

**(WT-3b) Tribal Projects:**

## Protect Wetlands

**2008 Target:  **14

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #:  WT-4****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **OWOW

- Target measure
- Target reflects cumulative achievements expected by 2008.  Regions evaluate and make determinations that the State is “on track” to show change in condition by FY 08.

## Protect Mexico Border Water Quality

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets_
- _Program Activity Measures:_
-  Safe Drinking Water to Homes in Mexico Border Area (MB-1)
-  Adequate Wastewater Sanitation to Homes in Mexico Border Area (MB-2)

## Protect Mexico Border Water Quality

**Measure #: Strategic Target IV-A****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWM
**Measure Description:  **Achieve currently exceeded water quality standards in impaired reaches or segments of significant shared and transboundary surface waters.

- Indicator measure; HQ reported measure.
- * 42 impairments are located on 19 segments.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**2012 Target: **>50%

## Protect Mexico Border Water Quality

**Measure #: MB-1 (new)****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWM
**Measure Description:  **Provide safe drinking water to homes in the Mexico Border area that lacked access to safe drinking water in 2003.

- Indicator measure; HQ reported measure.
- * 24,629 homes represent 25% of the 98,515 homes which lacked access to safe drinking water.
- The 2012 Target is proposed for the new Strategic Plan.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Anticipated 2012 Target: **25% (24,629 homes)*

## Protect Mexico Border Water Quality

**Measure #: MB-2 (new)****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** OWM
**Measure Description:  **Provide adequate wastewater sanitation to homes in the Mexico Border area that lacked access to wastewater sanitation in 2003.

- Indicator measure; HQ reported measure.
- * 172,681 homes represent 25% of the 690,723 homes which lacked access to wastewater sanitation.
- The 2012 Target is proposed for the *2006-2011 Strategic Plan.*

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Anticipated 2012 Target: **25% (172,681 homes)*

## Protect the Great Lakes

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets_
- _Program Activity Measures:_
- -  Permit Points Reflecting Great Lakes Guidance (GL:1)
- -  Percent CSO Permits Consistent with National Policy (GL: 2)
- -  Number of Sediment Remedial Actions (GL: 3)
- -  Percent of High Priority Beaches Monitored (GL: 4)

## Protect the Great Lakes

**Measure #: Subobjective 4.3.3****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** GLNPO
**Measure Description:  **Prevent water pollution and improve the overall aquatic ecosystem health of the Great Lakes using the Great Lakes 40-point scale.

- Target measures. (applies to measures 4.3.3 and IV-G)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target IV-G****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** GLNPO
**Measure Description:  **Reduce the average concentrations of PCBs in whole lake trout and walleye samples from 2000 levels.

**4.3.3**

**IV-G**

**2008 Target: **22

**2008 (Cumulative) Target:  **25% decline

## Protect the Great Lakes

**Measure #: Strategic Target IV-H****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** GLNPO
**Measure Description:  **Reduce the average concentrations of toxic chemicals (PCBs) in the air in the Great Lakes basin from 2000 levels (average annual long-term decline).

- Target measures. (applies to measures IV-H and IV-I)
- IV-H: Average concentrations from 2002 were Lake Superior: 60 pg/m2; Lake Michigan: 87 pg/m2;
- Lake Huron: 19 pg/m2; Lake Erie: 183 pg/m2; Lake Ontario: 36 pg/m2.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target IV-I****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** GLNPO
**Measure Description:  **Restore and de-list Areas of Concern (AOCs) within the Great Lakes basin.

**IV-H**

**IV-I**

**2008 Target: **30% decline

**2010 Target:  **10 AOCs restored

## Protect the Great Lakes

**Measure #:  Strategic Target IV-J****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **GLNPO
**Measure Description:  **Remediate cubic yards (in millions) of contaminated sediment in the Great Lakes.  (cumulative from 1997)

**National Program Manager Comments: **

**2008 Target:  **3.3 million*

- Target measure
- *FY 2008 Target fixed in *2003-2008 Strategic Plan*; to be adjusted in *2006-2011 Strategic Plan*.

## Protect the Great Lakes

**Measure #:  GL-1****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **GLNPO
**Measure Description:  **Number and percent of all NPDES permitted discharges to the Lakes or major tributaries that have permit limits that reflect the Guidance's water quality standards, where applicable**.**

**National Program Manager Comments: **

**	****	****	****	****	****	****	****2008 Target:  **100%

- Target measure
- *  FY 06 commitments based on FY 06 universe of 3,199.

## Protect the Great Lakes

**Measure Description:  **Number and percent of all CSO permits in the Great Lakes basin that are consistent with the national CSO Policy.

**National Program Manager Comments:**
-        Target measure

**2008 Target:  **100%

## Protect the Great Lakes

**Measure Description:  **Number of sediment remedial actions (annual).  (U.S. partners have completed about 3 per year since 1997.)

**National Program Manager Comments:**
-       Target measure

**	****	****	****	****	****	****2008 Target:  **3 per year

## Protect the Great Lakes

**Measure #: GL-4****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **GLNPO
**Measure Description:  **Percent of high priority Tier 1 (significant) Great Lakes beaches where States and local agencies have put into place water quality monitoring and public notification programs that comply with the US EPA National Beaches Guidance.

**National Program Manager Comments:**
**       **Target measure

**2008 Target:  **100%

## Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets_
- _Program Activity Measures:_
- -  Point Source Nutrient Load Reductions (CB-1)
-   Forrest Buffers Planted (CB-2)

## Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay

**Measure #: Subobjective 4.3.4****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** CBPO
**Measure Description:  **Prevent water pollution and protect aquatic systems so that overall aquatic system health of the Chesapeake Bay is improved and acres of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) increase. (cumulative)

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target IV-K****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** CBPO
**Measure Description:  **Reduction in number of pounds of nitrogen entering the Chesapeake Bay each year from 1985 levels.

**4.3.4**

**IV-K**

- Target measures (applies to measures 4.3.4 and IV-K).  FY 07 SAV target is less than FY 06 commitment because it reflects a more realistic yet ambitious timeframe to achieve 185,000 acres, based on consultation with top recognized, independent experts on SAV restoration who considered anticipated nutrient and sediment reductions, knowledge and experience with SAV recovery, and geographic location of SAV beds.

## Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay

**Measure #: Subobjective IV-L****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** CBPO
**Measure Description:  **Reduction in number of pounds phosphorus entering the Chesapeake Bay each year from 1985 levels.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target IV-M****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** CBPO
**Measure Description:  **Reduction in number of tons of sediment entering the Chesapeake Bay each year from 1985 levels.

**IV-L**

**IV-M**

- Target measures (applies to measures IV-L and IV-M).  FY 07 sediment reduction target is less than the FY06 commitment because it reflects a more realistic, yet ambitious, timeframe based upon historic progress, and historic and new funding.

## Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay

**Measure #:  CB-1****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **CBPO
**Measure Description:  **Percent of the point source nitrogen reduction and phosphorus reduction goals achieved.

**2008 Target: **74%

- Target measure

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**2008 Target: **85%

**(CB-1a) Nitrogen reduction:**

**(CB-1b) Phosphorus reduction:**

## Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay

**Measure #:  CB-2****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **CBPO
**Measure Description: **Percent of the forest buffer planting goal achieved.
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**National Program Manager Comments:**

**2008 Target: **60%

- Target measure

## Protect the Gulf of Mexico

- _Subobjective and Strategic Targets_
- _Program Activity Measures:_
- -  Percent Impaired Segments Restored (GM:1)
- -  Acres Habitat Restored (GM: 2)
- -  Early Warning System HAB (GM: 3)
- -  Shellfish Illness Rate Reduced (GM: 4)

## Protect the Gulf of Mexico

**Measure #: Subobjective IV-N****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** GMPO
**Measure Description:  **Prevent water pollution and improve the overall aquatic ecosystem health of coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico by 0.2 on the "good/fair/poor" scale of the National Coastal Condition Report, a 5-point scale in which 1 is poor and 5 is good.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

**Measure #: Strategic Target IV-O****	****	****	****National Office Lead: ** GMPO
**Measure Description:  **Reduce releases of nutrients throughout the Mississippi River Basin to reduce the size of the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

**IV-N**

**IV-O**

**2008 Target: **2.5

**2015 Target:  **less than 5,000 km2

- Target measures. (applies to measures IV-N and IV-O)
- * IV-O Baseline:1996-2000 running average size is 14,128 km2

## Protect the Gulf of Mexico

**Measure #:  GM-1****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **GMPO
**Measure Description:  **Number of the impaired segments in the 12 priority coastal areas where water and habitat quality is restored to levels that meet state water quality standards.

**National Program Manager Comments****	**

**2008 Target:  **71 segments (20%)

- Target measure

## Protect the Gulf of Mexico

**Measure Description:  **Number of additional acres ofimportant coastal and marine habitats that are restored, enhanced, or protected, above improvements accomplished through 2003.  (USGS 2000 baseline for all Gulf of Mexico coastal wetland habitats - 3,769,370 acres)

**National Program Manager Comments:**
**      **Target measure**	**

**2008 Target:   **20,000 acres

## Protect the Gulf of Mexico

**Measure #:  GM-3****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **GMPO
**Measure Description:  **Implement integrated bi-national (U.S. and Mexican Border States) early-warning system to support State and coastal community efforts to manage harmful algal blooms (HABs).

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure

## Protect the Gulf of Mexico

**Measure #:  GM-4****	****	****	****	****	****National Office Lead:  **GMPO
**Measure Description:  **Reduce the rate of shellfish-borne Vibrio vulnificus illnesses caused by consumption of commercially-harvested raw or undercooked oysters from the average illness rate for the years 1995-1999.

**National Program Manager Comments:**

- Target measure