Ohio Domestic Action Plan 2023

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Ohio has completed the Ohio Domestic Action Plan 2023. The Plan supports Governor DeWine’s H2Ohio initiative, which was released in Nov. 2019. The Ohio Lake Erie Commission will coordinate efforts under the Ohio Domestic Action Plan with Ohio EPA, Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA), Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), who each share responsibility for implementing the plan. Each agency will be accountable for implementing their respective areas of authority included in the state plan.

Action items included in the Ohio DAP focus on:

Establishing science-based priorities for agricultural best management practices and state programs to support H2Ohio efforts to encourage farmers to implement them;
Calling out the importance of wetland restoration and outlining ODNR's efforts to restore and enhance wetlands for nutrient reduction as part of H2Ohio;
Updated actions for communities including H2Ohio support for home sewage treatment system remediation;
Integrating the role of watershed planning at the local level for siting projects to reduce nutrients efficiently, including a distribution of the load reduction throughout the Maumee River watershed based on the Maumee Watershed Nutrient TMDL.

Summary Table of Actions Underway and Completed March 2025

Summary Table of Actions Underway and Completed, December 2023

Appendix G: Table of Partner Actions through 2023

Appendix A Supplemental: Guide to Subwatershed Names and HUC12 Codes

Response to comments 2023

If your organization is working in Ohio on nutrient reduction using private funding and would like to be included on the partner organization actions list, please let us know.

We maintain a list of stakeholder emails for communications about workshops and other news about the Ohio DAP. If you are not receiving these emails and would like to be added to the list, please send a request to: dap @ lakeerie.ohio.gov (copy address and remove spaces).