Executive Order 14428: Providing Meaningful Water Quality Improvements Through Collaboration and Oversight of Federal Support

What does Executive Order 14428 do?

EO 14428 revokes the 2009 Chesapeake Bay executive order and tells federal agencies to prioritize projects that measurably reduce nutrient and sediment runoff. EPA must work with the watershed states and District of Columbia to assess stormwater fees and encourage alternatives. The order does not itself repeal state or local fees.

Later record checked September 26, 2026: The September 2026 Chesapeake Bay order is recent; a subsequent funding or water-quality action expressly under it was not established in this pass.

Reading the operative provisions of Executive Order 14428

EO 14428 revokes EO 13508 and directs federal agencies to focus Chesapeake Bay support on measurable water-quality improvements. It asks EPA to discuss stormwater-fee issues with watershed jurisdictions and coordinates federal grants and projects. The Federal Register text sets federal priorities; it does not repeal a local stormwater fee or remove Clean Water Act requirements.

The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans multiple states and local governments, so water-quality progress depends on farms, wastewater systems, stormwater controls and habitat restoration. Federal grants can support projects, but recipients remain subject to award conditions and environmental law. Revoking an earlier executive order changes federal coordination policy, not the statutes and permits governing pollution.

The order emphasizes measurable results. Agencies should report what work was funded, which pollutants or habitat indicators changed and how local partners contributed. A meeting about stormwater fees is not an order to abolish them. To assess outcomes, compare Chesapeake Bay monitoring data, project records and agency grant reports over time.