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Draft Chapter 6:
Resources for Financing the CCMP
October 17, 2011 draft finalAbout the new Buzzards Bay CCMP Action Plans
The Buzzards Bay NEP is now updating our 1991 landmark Buzzards Bay Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) to reflect the great progress achieved since that plan was finalized. It will include new or updated goals, objectives, and management solutions to meet the environmental needs for Buzzards Bay and its surrounding watershed throughout the next decade.
On this page is a draft action plan from the updated Buzzards Bay Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan. The text on this page is a public draft provided to invite comment and discussion of the subject by residents and stakeholders. It may contain goals and recommendations that have not yet been endorsed or approved by the Buzzards Bay Steering Committee. The views or information contained here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the US Environmental Protection Agency.
We want your feedback on each action plan. First, please read the entire action plan on each page then at the bottom of the action plan pages, click the "Rate the Goals and Objectives now" button to provide comments on each goal, objective and defined management approach contained in this Action Plan. Based on your feedback, we will update and revise all the action plans in the new CCMP.
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Read the actual text of Chapter 6 as a pdf file (200 kb), with graphics.
Resources for Financing the CCMP
[This web page just has a few opening paragraphs. Open the pdf file above for the entire chapter.]Current Approach
It will likely cost billions of dollars and take decades for all responsible agents to implement the hundreds of recommendations contained in the 2010 CCMP. To better organize and clarify the responsibilities and costs associated with these recommendations, we used our best professional judgment to identify these costs and financing options within each action plan, under each recommendation.In this chapter we summarize total CCMP costs, major past and future funding sources and mechanisms, and we identify those grant and government programs that need additional resources.
Financing the implementation of a CCMP is not the same as financing a NEP, but they are related. For the goals of a nonregulatory document like the Buzzards Bay CCMP to be achieved, not only must progress be tracked, but approaches and actions refined and improved upon, and new adaptive efforts must be initiated to overcome government and public inertia. This is a key role for NEPs and their partners. For this reason this chapter also discusses the financing of the Buzzards Bay NEP and its partners. In particular we discuss past and future funding of the NEP's two longstanding partners on its EPA Cooperative Agreements, the citizen NGO, the Buzzards Bay Coalition, and the municipal NGO the Buzzards Bay Action Committee.
In the end, however, it is local government that will bear most of the costs and burdens of implementing the CCMP, and municipalities remain the principal authority to adopt and implement the policies, regulations, and programs needed and recommended. Some of CCMP recommendations have a high cost and must be financed. Funding Buzzards Bay watershed municipal government actions is the key focus of this chapter. Based on our assessment, the Buzzards Bay NEP has concluded that Buzzards Bay municipalities will succeed only if regional, state and federal government share the regulatory and financial burdens of their effort.
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