Shellfish Strategic Initiative Lead Request for Proposals

This investment priority objectives includes supporting program and staff capacity for livestock manure management, On-site Sewage System (OSS) management, Large On-site Sewage System (LOSS) management, Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC) work, and work to prevent boaters waste. All to reduce fecal pollution impacts on shellfish growing area classification protection and restoration.

This investment priority objectives includes supporting innovations in management, monitoring, source tracing, education, and enforcement to reduce fecal pollution impacting shellfish growing areas. Such as planning and design of alternative solutions to OSS in areas where OSS are not the best available option, building climate resiliency in work targeting fecal pollution impacting shellfish growing areas, supporting research into potential better management strategies, and supporting disposal options for treating septage from OSS, RVs, vessels, and other sources of septage impacting shellfish growing areas. 

This investment priority includes regionally scoped objectives. It includes supporting collective cross-jurisdictional efforts that address resource gaps and livestock manure management needs, designing and implementing collective cross-jurisdictional outreach efforts that address opportunity for a shared service that will support multiple programs/jurisdictions in outreach needs related to reducing fecal pollution, supporting regional programs for OSS O&M, repair, and replacement including financial assistance and rebates, and tracking, database development, and/or management that supports work in addressing fecal pollution impacts on shellfish growing areas. 

This investment priority objectives support municipal and domestic (sewage) wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to prepare for modifications that will lead to shellfish classification upgrades around outfalls, implement small-scale upgrades, consider future capacity needs, and/or to reduce frequency of emergency closures that impact shellfish bed harvest.