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The second day of the summit featured a broader The grant is funded through the NOAA's range of regional issues, including housing, coastal Regional Coastal Resilience Grant program, which resiliency and the Cape's economy. supports regional-scale projects that enhance the resilience of coastal communities and economies to the The OneCape award was presented to Paul effects of extreme weather, climate hazards, and Niedzwiecki, recognizing his work and changing ocean conditions. accomplishments as the third executive director of the Cape Cod Commission. A series of three stakeholder meetings were held between December 2017 and February 2018 in four sub Wastewater regions that represent the major water bodies The Commission continued its implementation of surrounding the Cape: Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod Bay, the 208 Plan Update,which was certified and approved Nantucket Sound and Outer Cape(Atlantic Ocean and in 2015. Cape Cod Bay). These meetings were designed to gather input on potential strategies to inform The Commission's enabling regulations were development of a web-based planning tool. amended through the county legislative process to capecodcommission.org/resiliency allow changes to the review of local comprehensive wastewater management plans.The changes allow for Blue Economy Grant staff-level review of such plans and sign-off by the executive director and are intended to provide a more The Cape Cod Commission is partnering with the efficient and timely review. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and the Southeastern Regional Planning & Economic In June 2018,the Cape Cod Commission deemed Development District (SRPEDD), to strengthen the the Pleasant Bay Targeted Watershed Management marine science and technology cluster on the Cape and Plan (TWMP) consistent with the 208 Plan,issuing a the South Coast. letter to the four member communities and the Pleasant Bay Alliance.The plan development was coordinated The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a by the Pleasant Bay Alliance and identifies nitrogen contributions by town and a schedule and adaptive $600,000 grant to the UMass Dartmouth to support management plan for reducing nitrogen to the Bay. development of a formal Massachusetts Science and Technology Cluster Alliance. capecodcommission.org/208 Among other things, the project will fund a Stormwater comprehensive study and analysis of the marine science The Cape Cod Commission was awarded$50,000 and technology sectors to further job creation,business to create a stormwater management coalition to help and industrial expansion,as well as exporting of goods. Cape communities meet stormwater management Grant to Improve Water Quality Database requirements. Restore America's Estuaries awarded $400,000 The Commission convened stormwater managers grant to the Cape Cod Commission and its partners — from all Cape towns beginning in Fall 2017 to further the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Center for define the role of the coalition and identify potential Coastal Studies,UMass Dartmouth School for Marine structures for a regional management entity. Science and Technology, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, and Woods Hole Resilient Cape Cod Oceanographic Institute. In early 2016, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA)awarded athree- The 2018 Southeast New England Program year,$780,000 grant to the Cape Cod Commission and (SNEP)Watershed Grant will go toward enhancing the partners to develop a tool and public outreach program regional water quality database to include additional to investigate the environmental and socio-economic data and tools to provide automated data analyses.The effects of local and regional coastal resiliency regional water quality database was developed by the strategies. Commission in 2016 to compile and make accessible estuarine water quality data from a variety of sources, 98