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APPENDIX
C
FINAL FRAMEWORK
FOR
UNIFIED
WATERSHEDASSESSMENTS,
RESTORATION
•
PRIORITIES,
AND
•
RESTORATION ACTION
STRATEGIES••
June.,
1998
Framework
for Unified
WatershedAssessment,
Restoration
Priorities,
and
RestorationAction Strategies
CONTENTS
• • • •
Page
FINAL
FRAMEWORK
•
1
Unified Watershed
i~ssessments.
• • •
2
Watershed
Restoration
Priority Setting
• •
2
Watershed
Action
Strategies
•
3
I.
BENEFITS
OF A
WATERSHED
APPROACH
AND
UNIFIED
ASSESSMENTS
3
•
IL
UNIFIED
WATERSRED
ASSESSMENTS
• •
4
•
A.
Existing
Assessment
Efforts
• •
4
B.
Geographic
Scope
andScale
•
5
C.
Unified
Watershed
Assessment
Categories
5
D.
AssessmentCriteria
• •
7E.
OtherAssessmentConsiderations
•
8
F.DataandTools
• •
9
•
G.
Roles
end Responsibilities
•
9
ilL
DEFININGWATERSHED
RESTORATION
PRIORiTiES
10
IV~
WATERSHEDRESTORATION
ACTION
STRATEGIES
13
V.
PRODUCTS, SCHEDULE
AND
FUI~D1NG
15
A.
Products
and Schedule
• •
15
B.
F~mding
Watershed
Assessments
in
FY
1998
•
16
C
FY
1999
Funding Guidance
• • • • • •
16
VL
NATIONAL
REPORT
• •
:
•
17
-
APPENDIX A:
EXAMPLES
OF
EXISTING
ASSESSMENT
PROCESSES THAT
MAY
BE USEFUL
IN
DEVELOPING
UNIFIEDWATERSHED
ASSESSMENTS
•
APPENDIX
B:
HYDROLOGIC
UNIT
BOUNDAdES
(MAP)APPENDIX
C:
WATERSHED
ASSESSMENT
DATA
AND
TOOLS
June
9,1998
FINAL
FRAME
WORK
FOR
•
UNIFIED WATERSHED
ASSESSMENTS,
•
RESTORATION
PRIORITIES,
AND,
RESTORATION
ACTION STRATEGIES
•
The
Clean
Water
Action
Plan
charts
a
course
toward
fWfilThig
the
Original
goals
of
the
Clean
Water
Act
-
fishable,
swimmable
and
safe waters
for
all
Americans.
The
ActiOn
Plan
presCflis
a
broad vision
of
watershedprojection
-
in
which
protections
foe
Amer~ca’s
coastal
and
•estuarine
waters, surface
freshwater,
wetlands,
grOundwater,
and natural
resources
are
iniegrated
with
traditional
clean
water
and
hum.”
health
obectives,
•
•
A
key
element
of
the
ActionPla*
is
a
cooperative
approach
to
restoring
and
protecting~
water
quality
in
which
ate,
federal,
tribal,
and
local
gov~nmalt~
work
with
stakeholdOrs
~
interestedcitizens
tà
(1)
id~iify
watersheds
nO t
meeting
clean
water
sad
other
natural resourcegoals
and
(2)
work
cooperatively to
focus
resources
and implement
effective strategies
to
solve
theseproblems.This
unified
watmhed
assessment
brings together,
on
a
watershedbasis,diverse
objectives
in
assessments
currently
being
conducted
by
states,
tribes,
federal
agencies,
and
others.
The
ActionPlan
calls
for
state
environmental
agency
leadersand
stateconservationists to
jointly convene
the
process
and
to involve
a
foil
~angeof
appropriate parties.
Severalprinciples
gt~de
the
development
of
ynifled watershed
auessmenLr.
restoration
orilie3,
and
restoration action
~
•
-
all
components
of
a
watershed related
to
aquatic
systems
are
considered,
including
•
biological, physical,
and
chemical
characteristics;
-
hnn~~’~
healthand
ecosystems
are
protected
from
significant sourceà
of
w athr.
•
pollution,
and
stewardship
of
natural
resources
is
àthazced;
-
unified
watershed assessments
are good
opportunitiesto
encourage creativ
ty
and
innovation
in assessing watershed
condition
and
threats;
• •
-
States,
tribesand
federal agencies
work
together
to
assure
that
completed
asses~nents
have
core
comparable
elements
to
promote comparable
results
•
regionally
and
nadonsll~
.
• •
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