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State Programs/Rules
Click on the state name below, or scroll down, for information regarding state water quality trading programs and state policies. Arizona
Wyoming *ATTN: The following maps may only be re-used with permission. Please inquire with Mark Kieser for use (see Contact Us) Trading Programs at the Watershed Scale
State Trading Programs: Arizona
Pinto Creek - Carlotta Copper Case: Copper loading offsets - legal decision California Sacramento River:
Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District Mercury Offset Program Mercury Control Project Inventory Database: Staff Report Watershed Program
San Joaquin Valley/Grassland Area Farmers Tradable Loads Program:
Grassland Bypass Compliance Monitoring EPA success story
Mercury TMDL webpage
Lake Tahoe: 2009 Lake Clarity Crediting Program and Handbook 2008 TMDL Pollutant Reduction Opportunity Report 2007 Basin Characterization and Assessment of Exemplary Programs for Water Quality Crediting and Trading Feasibility Analysis EPA Targeted Watershed 2005 Annual Report 2004 Proposal to EPA"Market Based Tools for Air and Water Pollutant Load Reduction to Protect Lake Tahoe Clarity" Truckee River: Brief Program Plan Colorado
Colorado 2004 Pollutant Trading Policy
2007 Water Quality Trading Guidelines 2006 Control Regulation
2003 Article Abstract: "Lessons about Effluent Trading from a Single Trade" - Richard Woodward
Cherry Creek Basin: Program Description Bear Creek: 2005 Watershed Control Regulation
Lower Colorado River: (Grand Junction) 2003 EPA News Release Connecticut
Long Island Sound: Nitrogen Control Program CT DEP webpage LIS Program Description LIS Factsheet
Nitrogen Credit Exchange: An Incentive-based Water Quality Trading Program
Nitrogen Credit Advisory Board:
Reports: 2003 - 2014 (links to CT DEP webpage) Legislation: 2002 Public Act 01-180: An Act Concerning Nitrogen Reduction in Long Island Sound
State of Connecticut Nitrogen Program Fact Sheet
Lower Delaware River Basin: 2006 Report "Water Quality Trading in the Lower Delaware River Basin: A Resource for Practitioners" Delaware Department of Natural Resources: Watershed-based Nutrient Trading Factsheet "An Industry in a Bind" Factsheet
Inland Bays Watershed: Pollution Control Strategy Allowing Trading
Indian River and Bay, Rehoboth Bay, Little Assawoman Bay Watersheds: 7403 Regulations Governing the Pollution Control Strategy Florida Basin Management Action Plans (BMAPs): Webpage (contains links to specific BMAPs)
Water Quality Credit Trading: Florida Administrative Code Rule: 62-306.700 "Water Quality Credit Trade Tracking"
2009 Public Presentation: "Water Quality Credit Trading" - Daryll Joyner
2006 Report to governor and legislature
2010 Fact Sheet: EPA Water Quality Standards for the State of Florida's Lakes and Flowing Waters
Pollutant Trading Advisory Committee: webpage Tampa Bay: Estuary Program Lake Okeechobee Watershed:Factsheet - WWF page - RFF article Florida Ranchlands Environmental Services Projects (FRESP) is funded by the USDA NRCS, FDACS, SFWMD, WWF, and Florida DEP. It is a 5 year pilot market-based project to restore Lake Okeechobee Watershed by paying Ranchers for environmental services such as water retention, phosphorus retention, and wetland enhancement. Lower St. Johns River Basin: Florida DEP mainpage (overview of action and trading plans)
2010 Report to the Governor and Legislature: "The Pilot Water Quality Credit Trading Program for the Lower St. Johns River"
2008 Basin Management Action Plan "For the Implementation of Total Maximum Daily Loads for Nutrients Adopted by the Florida DEP"
Lake Allatoona Watershed: A framework for trading phosphorus credits in the Lake Allatoona Watershed - River Center Webpage
Georgia Comprehensive State-wide Water Management Plan (2008)
Water Quality Trading Feasibility Papers: 2006 Building a Foundation for Water Quality Trading in Georgia" paper 2005 "An Evaluation of Water Quality Trading for Georgia Watersheds" paper 2005 "A Feasibility Analysis of Applying Water Quality Trading in Georgia Watersheds" Paper 2005 "Water Quality Trading in Georgia: Addressing Two Potential Impediments to Success" Paper 2003 "Developing Offset Banking Systems in Georgia" working paper
Legislation: State of Idaho Pollutant Trading Page 2010 Pollutant Trading Guidance Bear River:
Bear River Watershed Water Quality Trading Page
Water Quality Model used for Trading 2000 Feasibility Study: "Lower Boise River Effluent Trading Demonstration Project: Summary of Participant Recommendations for a Trading Framework" Trading Calculator
Trading Calculator Technical Documentation
Upper Snake Rock Watershed: NPDES general permit that includes a pollutant trading provision Lower Boise River: Trading Documents
Big and Little Wood Rivers Watershed: 2003 Watershed-based Nutrient Trading System Design
Boise Wastewater 2020: Planning for a Sustainable Future (video) Illinois Piasa Creek Watershed: Project: 2005 AWWA Journal 2008 NPDES Permit Notice Great Rivers LandTrust Website
Big Bureau Creek Watershed: "Growing Wetlands for Clean Water" Factsheet "Measuring a Test Market for Nutrient Farming" Factsheet Indiana
Wabash River Watershed: Study Overview Iowa
Iowa Market Feasibility Assessment Study (Three Project Sites):
1. Raccoon River Watershed
2. Walnut Creek Watershed
3. Boone River Watershed "The Allocation of Nutrient Load Reduction Across a Watershed: Assessing Delivery Coefficients as an Implementation Tool" Working Paper & Link to Journal Abstract 2010 Article: "Water Quality Trading and Wetland Banking: Lessons for Iowa" Charles City Water Quality Credit Trading: Viability & Recommendations Report
Cheney Lake Watershed PERC Case Study: "Cheney Lake Watershed: Farming Water Quality in Kansas"
Kentucky River Watershed: 2011 Paper: "Non-Point Source Abatement Costs in the Kentucky River Watershed"
2009-2011 Study: "Assessment of Market-based Water Quality Trading System for the Kentucky River Watersheds"
Part 1: Issue 2: Water Quality and Quantity, from "Kentucky Statewide Assessment of Forest Resources" Fiscal Year 2010 Annual Report: "Kentucky Division of Enforcement"
Nutrient Criteria Development Plan for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. (August 2007). Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection: Division of Water. Maryland
Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Nutrient Trading Program: MDE Webpage Guidelines for: Agricultural Credit Sellers, Agricultural Credit Buyers 2012 Review Observations: "Maryland's Trading and Offset Programs"
2011 Final Report: "Ecosystem Services Working Group" 2010 Interim Report: "Ecosystem Services Working Group" 2008 Policy for Nutrient Cap Management and Trading Nutrient Trading Video
Cost and Cost Efficiencies for Some Nutrient Reduction Practices in Maryland. (April 2009). Robert Wieland, Doug Parker, Will Gans, and Andrew Martin. Submitted for: NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office and Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Nutrient Trading, the Flush Tax, and Maryland's Nitrogen Emissions to the Chesapeake Bay. (2007). James C. Hanson and K.E. McConnell. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Maryland, College Park. WP-07-03. Establishing a Research Agenda for Assessing the Bioavailability of Wastewater Treatment Plant-Derived Effluent Organic Nitrogen in Treatment Systems and Receiving Waters. (2007). Margaret R. Mulholland, Nancy G. Love, Deborah A. Bronk, Vikram Pattarkine, Amit Pramanik, H. David Stensel. Workshop co-sponsored by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) to the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Water Environment Research Foundation's (WERF's) Nutrient Challenge Program. Nitrogen Credit Trading in Maryland: 2002 "Market Analysis for Establishing a Statewide Framework"
Massachusetts Charles River Watershed: EPA Information News Release Mass DEP Stormwater Report as starting point for trading framework Implementation Planning: Report "TMDL for Nutrients in the Upper/Middle Charles River" Massachusetts Estuaries: Pilot Project MassDEP Webpage Project Page Project Proposal Michigan
Kalamazoo River: 2004 Targeted Watershed Grant Project 2001 Demonstration Trading Project Minnesota
Draft Water Quality Trading Rules: Water Quality Trading Rule Development MPCA Phosphorus Strategy
Policy Study 265 "Environmental Flexibility in Action: A Minnesota Case Study"
2011 Watson Partners and the Southern Minnesota Sugar Beet Cooperative: Phosphorus Trading "Farm of the Future" Project
2009 Kieser & Associates Report "A Scientifically Defensible Process for the Exchange of Pollutant Credits under Minnesota's Proposed Water Quality Trading Rules" USDA Conservation Innovation Grant: 2006 "Improving Conservation and Agricultural Economics with Water Quality Credit Trading and the BMP Challenge" BMP Challenge Preliminary White Draft Paper MN Agricultural Participation in Credit Trading
2006 Article "Pollutant Trading to Improve Riparian Habitat"
Rahr Malting: Program Description Watershed-based Permitting Case Study: Final Permit EPA Fact sheet Minnesota River: 2004 Summer Low Flow DO TMDL Report
Vermillion River: Targeted Watershed Grand "Thermal Credit Trading System" webpage (includes links to Project findings and methods) 2008 Maps of Thermal Credit Potential 2007 Paper "Thermal trading in a Local, State, and Federal Regulatory Context: the Vermillion River" Nevada
Nevada Water Quality Homepage
Fact Sheet: "Nevada Division of Environmental Protection" (pursuant to NAC 445A.236)
Truckee River: Quality of Life Indicator Water Data - Truckee Meadows Tomorrow Site Technical Memorandum: Chalk Creek Treatment Feasibility Assessment 2011-2030 Comprehensive Regional Water Management Plan 1999 Water Rights and Pollution Offset Program - EPA Summary (Pg. 28)
Las Vegas Wash: Pollution Trading System NV EPA Permit Factsheet
White Paper (2013): Evaluation of the Water Quality Trading Program as Presented in the Final Rutgers University Report Entitled “Development and Water Quality Model Validation of a Phosphorus Trading Program for the Non-Tidal Passaic River Basin”
Water Quality Trading Program Webpage and Presentation (through Rutgers University)
Presentation (2007): "Non-Tidal Passaic River Basin Water Quality Trading Project" (NJWEA 92nd Annual Conference - Atlantic City, NJ)
Passaic Valley: Sewerage Commissioners Pretreatment Trading Program
New York Phosphorus Offset Pilot Program
North Carolina Neuse River: Protection Rules Permit: Part 1 - Part 2
Tar Pamlico River Basin: Project Description and Program Links Nutrient Sensitive Water Strategy: Soil and Water Conservation Page
Cape Fear River: Targeted Watershed Grant : Cape Fear River Assembly Page 2009 Final Report: A Nutrient Credit Trading Framework for the Jordan Lake Watershed: Using Market-Based Mechanisms to Make Watershed Restoration more Cost Effective Executive Summary & Full Report Ohio
Legislation: Water Quality Trading Rules Ohio EPA Water Quality Trading Website
Ohio Administrative Code: Chapter 3745-5: Water Quality Trading (2012 Revision)
Great Miami River Watershed: Water Quality Credit Trading Program page
2005 Water Quality Trading Program Operations Manual
Miami Conservancy District: Improving Water Quality Demonstration Projects page
Preliminary Economic Analysis Study
2012 Article: "An Ex Post Evaluation of Ohio's Great Miami Water Quality Trading Program" 2012 Book Chapter Abstract & Link: "Chapter 75: Moving Upstream: Collaborative Leadership in Water Quality Improvement" from "Environmental Leadership: A Reference Handbook"
Report: "An Economic Comparison of USDA-NRCS EQIP Payments and Water Quality Trading in the Great Miami River Watershed in Ohio" Little Miami River: Description Clermont County EPA Proposal and News Release
Sugar Creek Watershed: 2011 Article: Alpine Cheese Water Quality Trading Project Proves Successful Alpine Cheese Phosphorus Nutrient Trading Program 2006 Trading Plan
Shepherd Creek: Research: "Using Economic Incentive to Manage Storm water Runoff" Part 1 and Evaluation
Ohio River Basin: EPRI Ohio River Basin Webpage
Legislation: State of Oregon Water Quality Trading Website
2012 Regular Session - 76th Oregon Legislative Assembly: Senate Bill 1511 (regarding Ecosystem Services)
Chap 468B Water Quality Statutes
2009 Internal Management Directive (Updated August 2012): Water Quality Trading in NPDES Permits News Release
Permit Factsheet
2002 Temperature Management Plan
NPDES permit Webpage Willamette Watershed:
Willamette Partnership Newsletters & Webpage
In It Together (2012): "A How-To Reference for Building Point-Nonpoint Water Quality Trading Programs"
Part 1: "Overview"
Part 2: "Designing and Operating a Trading Program"
Part 3: "Case Studies"
Opportunities for Action (2012): "Recommendations Supporting the Next Iteration of Point-Nonpoint Water Quality Trading Programs"
Willamette Ecosystem Marketplace Development Webpage
Willamette Watershed Improvement Strategies Page
White Paper: "Practitioners' Working Group"
2005 EPA Project Proposal
2006 Conservation Markets Roundtable Presentations
2006 Ecosystem Marketplace article
Portland Tradable Stormwater Credit Project
Oregon DEQ Water Quality Trading Webpage
Oregon Water Quality Trading Factsheet Water Quality Credit Trading in Oregon: Case Study Paper: Dynamic Simulation of Thermal Water Quality Trading Program and Implications for Policy Design Pennsylvania
Legislation: DEP Nutrient Trading webpage and policy/guidelines
Pennsylvania Water Quality Trading: NutrientNet Online Trading Marketplace
Conestoga Watershed: Nutrient Trading Pilot Project
DEP Chesapeake Bay Webpage: includes links to "Trading of Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Credit: Policy and Guidelines", information from the trading workgroup and all documents related to the Chesapeake Bay. 2013 Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Targets Compliance Cost Study 2010 Final Report: "The Wissahickon Creek Municipal Sediment Credit System"
2010 Article: "Establishing a Clearinghouse to Reduce Impediments to Water Quality Trading"
2009 CCX Final Report: Outline for PENNVEST's Role as Nutrient Credit
Clearinghouse in Pennsylvania's Water Quality Nutrient Credit Market. To
request this publication, contact Michael Walsh (Exec. VP) or Jeffery
O'Hara (Economist). 2008 Journal: "Pennsylvania Geology" (vol. 38, no. 1)
2007 Article: Ready to Trade: PA Approves Policy to Exchange Nutrients 2007 White Paper: "Pennsylvania's Nutrient Trading Program: Legal Issues & Challenges"
Final Trading of Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Credits - Policy and Guidelines (2006)
Appendix: Nutrient Trading Criteria Specific for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Attachment 1: Point Source Allocation Strategy
Attachment 2: Overview of Wastewater Planning Program Procedures
Attachment 3: Overview of the Agriculture Sector’s participation in Nutrient Trading
2006 Primer on Water Quality Trading in the Mid Atlantic Region DEP News Releases: 2006 Article: State's Nutrient Trading Program Garnering Attention
2006 Article: First Credit Sale
Lawsuit: Borough of Bedford et al. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Nutrient Credit Trading for Watershed Improvement: 2003 PA Discussion Paper
Beaver Creek Watershed: The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Project
Watershed Restoration Plan (2006)
Unrecognized Guid format.Texas
Lake Lewisville Watershed, Texas
Bear River Watershed: 2004 Targeted Watershed Grant to develop trading
"Nomination of the Tri State Bear River Basin for the US EPA Watershed Initiative Program" Proposal Water Quality Model used to determine amount of tradable pollutants
Conclusions of Water Quality Trading Study
Vermont Vermont Interim Storm water Permit
VDEC Webpage
Virginia Legislation: VPDES Watershed General Permit for nutrient Discharges to the Chesapeake Bay: Webpage
DEQ Chesapeake Bay Program: Webpage
Nutrient Credit Exchange Association, Inc. Page
2012 Deliberative Draft for Discussion: "Uncertainty Related to Nutrient Offsets and Trading in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - Summary of Terminology and Definitions in Policies and Regulations"
2010 Chesapeake Bay TMDL Phase I Watershed Implementation Plan
2009 Evaluation: "Nutrient Trading Options in Virginia: A Role for Agriculture"
2007 Article: "Analyzing Cost Implications of Water Quality Trading Provisions: Lessons from the Virginia Nutrient Credit Exchange Act"
2006 "Evaluation of the Virginia's Nutrient Credit Trading Program." Kurt Stephenson, Stephen Aultman, and Leonard Shabman. Paper Prepared for presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting. July 23-26, 2006: Long Beach, CA. 2005 Report: "Chesapeake Bay Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Tributary Strategy for the James River, Lynnhaven, and Poquoson Coastal Basin"
2011 Water Quality Trading Program Update
2010 Draft Water Quality Trading Framework Paper 2009 Washington Conservation Markets Study: Final Report
Spokane River Watershed: 2010 Spokane River and Lake Spokane Dissolved Oxygen Total Maximum Daily Load Water Quality Improvement Report & Publication Summary
2005 Water Quality Trading Suitability Analysis Final Report
District of Columbia's Trading and Offset Programs Review Observations. (2012). US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). Phase II WIP Evaluation. Washington D.C. Stormwater Credit Exchange Website
Notice of Final Rule Making: Stormwater Management, and Soil Erosion and Sediment Control. (2013). District Department of the Environment (DDOE). Chesapeake Stormwater Network: The District Department of the Environment (DDOE) finalized a new
regulatory framework for stormwater management by large development
sites in the District of Columbia. The new regulations were published
in the DC Register on Friday, July 19, 2013.
Overview of DC's New Regs and Guidebook Generation and Certification of Stormwater Retention Credits District of Columbia Spreadsheet Instructions
District of Columbia MS4 Permit
West Virginia WV Water Quality Nutrient Credit Trading Program Guidance Document (2009)
2010 Final Report: "WV Potomac Nutrient Credit Bank and Trade Program: NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant"
Water Quality Bank and Trade Program Webpage (includes links to 2008 Draft Trading Guidance Documents)
2008 "TMDL for Selected Streams in the Potomac Watershed" Final Report
Nutrient Trading in Potomac River Brochure
EPA Document: Trading Framework and Water Quality Credits on Former Mine Lands
2003 Document: "Completed and Future Projects and use of TMDL Trading" Coal River Watershed: 2006 TMDL for Selected Streams in the Coal Watershed" Final Report
A Water Quality Trading How To Manual (2013) Water Quality Trading Framework for Wisconsin (2011) Report
2003 Report: "Lessons from the Trading Pilots: Applications for Wisconsin Water Quality Trading Policy
Red Cedar River: Wisconsin DNR Watershed Based Pollutant Trading Article
Rock River Partnership Webpage
Upper Green River Basin Ecosystem Services: Feasibility Analysis Project Report. (December 2011). Esther A. Duke, Amy Pocewicz, and Steve Jester. The Nature Conservancy. Interstate Trading Programs: Chesapeake Bay Program
Chesapeake Bay Program (2001) Nutrient Trading Fundamental Principles and Guidelines & Endorsement of the Principles
State Pages & WIP's: Delaware:
2012 WIP: "Phase II Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP]" 2010 WIP: "Phase I Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP]"
2010 WIP: "Chesapeake Bay TMDL Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP]"
2012 WIP: "Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP] for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed"
2010 WIP: "Phase I Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP] for the Chesapeake Bay TMDL"
2009 Report: "Costs and Cost Efficiencies for Some Nutrient Reduction Practices in Maryland"
2010 WIP: "Final Phase I Nutrient and Sediment Water Quality Improvement and Protection Plan"
A Nutrient Trading DEP Webpage
2012 WIP: "Pennsylvania Chesapeake Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP]: Phase 2"
2010 WIP: "Pennsylvania Chesapeake Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP]"
VA Watershed Permit Webpage
2012 WIP: "Chesapeake Bay TMDL Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP]"
2010 WIP: "Chesapeake Bay TMDL Phase I Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP]"
WV Trading Program Webpage
2012 WIP: "Chesapeake Bay TMDL Final Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan [WIP]"
Combined 2014 Action Plan & 2013 Progress Report: "Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed"
2012 Report: "Nutrient Credit Trading for the Chesapeake Bay: An Economic Study"
2012 Report: "Accounting for Transaction Costs in Point/Nonpoint Water Quality Trading Programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed"
2010 Executive Order: "Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed"
2010 Guidance: "Guidance for Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed"
2010 Chesapeake Bay TMDL Appendix: "Appendix S. Offsetting New or Increased Loadings of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sediment to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed"
2010 Newsletter: "Bay Bank - The Chesapeake's Conservation Marketplace" (The Pinchot Letter, Vol.15, No.1)
2010 Working Paper: "How Baywide Nutrient Trading Could Benefit Virginia Farms" (WRI)
2010 Working Paper: "How Nutrient Trading Could Help Restore the Chesapeake Bay" (WRI)
2009 Study: "Evaluation Framework for the Water Quality Trading Programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed"
2009 Testimony: "Testimony of J. Charles Fox, Senior Advisor to Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives"
2009 Testimony: "Statement by Ann Mills, Deputy Under Secretary, Natural Resources and Environment, US Department of Agriculture, Before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research, Committee on Agriculture, US House of Representatives"
2009 Bill: "Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act of 2009"
2007 Analysis: "Bay Bank Baseline Analysis: Regulatory Drivers of Ecosystems Markets in the Chesapeake Bay" Conducted by Environmental Law Institute for the Pinchot Institute for Conservation
2005 Article "Nutrient Credit Trading: The New Bay Cleanup Tool" Workshop Proceedings:
2013 "Technical Memorandum: Local Water Quality Protection" Trading and Offsets Work Group Presentation
2012 - 2013 "EPA Chesapeake Bay Trading and Offsets Workplan" DRAFT Workplan
2012 "Chesapeake Bay Program: Trading and Offsets Workgroup (TOWG) Conference Call" Minutes
2001 Nutrient Trading Public Workshop - Public Comments Summary
1998 "Nutrient Trading to maintain Nutrient Cap in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed" Workshop Proceedings Reports:
2014 "Local Water Quality Protection when Using Credits for NPDES Permit Issuance and Compliance: EPA Tech. Memorandum" Report 2013 "Components of Credit Calculation: EPA Technical Memorandum" DRAFT Report
2009 "Evaluation Framework for Water Quality Trading Programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed" Report 2009 "Cost and Cost Efficiencies for some Nutrient Reduction Practices in Maryland" Report
2001 "Nutrient Trading for the Chesapeake Bay" Report
Ohio River Basin Trading Pilot Project Main Page
2013 Report: "Ecosystem Flow Recommendations for the Upper Ohio River Basin in Western Pennsylvania" (The Nature Conservancy)
2011 Project Notice: Pilot Trades for Compliance with Nutrient Criteria and Greenhouse Gas Targets 2008 Article: "Missing Protection: Polluting the Mississippi River Basin's Small Streams and Wetlands"