Public Notice: Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program’s draft Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan

Summary

The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program’s draft Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan (CCMP) is now available for public comment. 

The University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation (UNORTF) manages the program with grant funding from the Environmental Protection Agency. The UNORTF received EPA funds under Cooperative Agreement number BR-02F06201-1 to support development of the draft CCMP. The UNORTF subawarded funds to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership to develop the CCMP.

The draft CCMP updates the existing CCMP, developed in 1995, and the Comprehensive Habitat Management Plan (CHMP), completed in 2006. In developing the CCMP, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership collaborated with four workgroups (Water Quality, Working Lands and Waters, Habitat Management, and Resilient Communities) and received input from Pontchartrain stakeholders through Community Roundtable meetings. 

The goals of the 2026 CCMP are to improve water quality through reduction of pollution, sustain land-based and aquatic habitat, and increase public awareness of current and future ecological health issues and participation in actions to sustain the health of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. The 2026 CCMP includes 132 actions in the critical areas of water quality, habitat, and education and involvement to address the ecological health of the basin. 

The public is invited to participate in this process by providing comments   60-day public comment period starts on from April 10, 2026, through June 9, 2006.

Please use the form below to submit your comments. If you have any questions about this process, please contact Nelly Smith at Smith.Nelly@epa.gov.

Review the draft Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan. 

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