The Northeast Regional Planning Body today announced that the Oct. 20 Stakeholder Forum will take place in Durham, NH. Registration is accessible here. In addition, the RPB’s Nov. 16-17 meeting will take place in Portland, ME.
The RPB meeting is expected to include review of revised draft products and discussion of the RPB’s future work, with results from the Stakeholder Forum shared with the RPB in advance of the formal meeting.
Following the decision at its June meeting, the RPB also announced the establishment of a 12-member Ecosystem-Based Management Work Group to assist with the development of the draft regional marine plan. The group will hold its first meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 30.
According to the group’s Terms of Reference, it will “support and inform a range of activities designed to incorporate additional EBM considerations into the 2016 Northeast Ocean Plan, including the identification and scoping of activities that could be described in the first ocean plan and would be implemented over a longer timeframe.”
Established in 2012 pursuant to the National Ocean Policy Executive Order, the Northeast RPB was formed to develop a coastal and marine plan for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
