I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 258 
To require the Office of Management and Budget to prepare a crosscut 
budget for restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to 
require the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and implement 
an adaptive management plan, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 7, 2011 
Mr. WITTMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined 
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Office of Management and Budget to prepare 
a crosscut budget for restoration activities in the Chesa-
peake Bay watershed, to require the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency to develop and implement an adaptive 
management plan, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Chesapeake Bay Ac-
countability and Recovery Act of 2011’’. 
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SEC. 2. CHESAPEAKE BAY CROSSCUT BUDGET. 
(a) CROSSCUT BUDGET.—The Director, in consulta-
tion with the Chesapeake Executive Council, the chief ex-
ecutive of each Chesapeake Bay State, and the Chesa-
peake Bay Commission, shall submit to Congress a finan-
cial report containing— 
(1) an interagency crosscut budget that dis-
plays— 
(A) the proposed funding for any Federal 
restoration activity to be carried out in the suc-
ceeding fiscal year, including any planned inter-
agency or intra-agency transfer, for each of the 
Federal agencies that carry out restoration ac-
tivities; 
(B) to the extent that information is avail-
able, the estimated funding for any State res-
toration activity to be carried out in the suc-
ceeding fiscal year; 
(C) all expenditures for Federal restoration 
activities from the preceding 3 fiscal years, the 
current fiscal year, and the succeeding fiscal 
year; and 
(D) all expenditures, to the extent that in-
formation is available, for State restoration ac-
tivities during the equivalent time period de-
scribed in subparagraph (C); 
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(2) a detailed accounting of all funds received 
and obligated by all Federal agencies for restoration 
activities during the current and preceding fiscal 
years, including the identification of funds which 
were transferred to a Chesapeake Bay State for res-
toration activities; 
(3) to the extent that information is available, 
a detailed accounting from each State of all funds 
received and obligated from a Federal agency for 
restoration activities during the current and pre-
ceding fiscal years; and 
(4) a description of each of the proposed Fed-
eral and State restoration activities to be carried out 
in the succeeding fiscal year (corresponding to those 
activities listed in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 
paragraph (1)), including the— 
(A) project description; 
(B) current status of the project; 
(C) Federal or State statutory or regu-
latory authority, programs, or responsible agen-
cies; 
(D) authorization level for appropriations; 
(E) project timeline, including benchmarks; 
(F) references to project documents; 
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