{"id":14217,"date":"2016-09-08T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=14217"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:01:27","slug":"thompson-testifies-on-progress-and-challenges-in-cleaning-up-chesapeake-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=14217","title":{"rendered":"Thompson Testifies on Progress and Challenges in Cleaning Up Chesapeake Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pacd.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CBProgram.jpg\" alt=\"cbprogram\" width=\"125\" height=\"103\" \/>Pennsylvania\u2019s conservation districts voiced their concerns about the Chesapeake Bay \u201creboot strategy\u201d during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesapeakebay.net\/groups\/group\/citizens_advisory_committee\" target=\"_blank\">Chesapeake Bay Program\u2019s Citizens\u2019 Advisory Committee<\/a> (CAC) to the Chesapeake Executive Council. The CAC held their quarterly meeting on September 8, 2016 in Lancaster, PA.\n\nLancaster County Conservation District Manager Christopher Thompson addressed the Committee on behalf of the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts. Thompson briefed attendees on the issues conservation districts are now facing as a result of the reboot strategy.\n\nConservation districts have had meetings with the DEP in regards to the farm inspections conservation districts have been asked to conduct. This has been a step forward since many concerns the conservation districts have were addressed by DEP.\n\n\u201cAlthough many of the conservation districts\u2019 concerns have already been adequately addressed by DEP, there are still two outstanding issues \u2013 the discrepancies between the Statement of Policy, the inspection form, and the contract, and privacy concerns when a district employee obtains information generated by federal entities,\u201d said Thompson.\n\nClick <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/eFjeNT\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the full testimony and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacd.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/CAC-Testimony-9-8-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the press release.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s conservation districts voiced their concerns about the Chesapeake Bay \u201creboot strategy\u201d during the Chesapeake Bay Program\u2019s Citizens\u2019 Advisory Committee (CAC) to the Chesapeake Executive Council. The CAC held their quarterly meeting on September 8, 2016 in Lancaster, PA. Lancaster County Conservation District Manager Christopher Thompson addressed the Committee on behalf of the Pennsylvania Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chesapeake-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}