ISSUE


PLACE IN FOOD CYCLE

Natural Resourse Base

POLICY

Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)

POLICY TOOL

Water Quality Permits Financial incentives: subsidies & loans, technical assitance for best management practices

SCALE

Regional, State & Local

ACTORS

Federal- EPA
Regional- Lake Champlain Basin Program
State-Water Quality Division
Local-Farmers & Champlain lovers

PROBLEMS ADDRESSED

Reduce manure & fertilizer run off to minimize or eliminate phosphorus in Lake Champlain

POLICY GOALS IMPLICATED

Security & efficiency

TOOL CHARACTERISTICS

Very visible. Somewhat coersive. Very direct. Somewhat automatic.

EXTENT POLICY SUPPORTS/HINDERS

Seems to hinder more than support. Demands expensive physical plant changes with little economic insentive.

ADDITIONAL LINKS

Lake Champlain Phosphorus TMDL Factsheet
TMDL to Address Biological Impairment in Potash Brook
Lake Champlain Basin Program