We will be meeting in the Board Room at the offices of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries at 7870 Villa Park Dr. #400, Henrico, Virginia. Our focus will be to examine to intensive work related to the 2017 midpoint assessment of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL and solicit your views are key issues that are currently under consideration by the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership. Those issues include the fate of loads from the Conowingo Dam, any accommodation for climate change in the Phase III Watershed Implementation plan and other issues that will influence the level of effort required by Virginia, the other states and the District of Columbia. We will also bring you up to date of the revisions to the Chesapeake Bay model, our upcoming 2018-2019 milestones, and seek your input on strategies for ongoing stakeholder engagement in the WIP development process. For your information, in the last month, EPA completed its interim evaluation of our 2016-2017 milestones. Those evaluations are posted here: https://www.epa.gov/chesapeake-bay-tmdl/epa-interim-evaluation-2016-2017-milestone-progress-chesapeake-bay-watershed . In addition, Governor McAuliffe chaired his final meeting of the Chesapeake Executive Council in June and the council adopted a resolution in support of the Chesapeake Bay Program in the face of proposed elimination of funding for the program in the President’s budget. For your information, I have attached a copy of the resolution. Thank you for your continued interest and participation.  

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