Committees & Work Groups - Citizens Advisory

Citizen participation is critical to the Harbor Estuary Program’s success both because public support of environmental programs is necessary for their implementation and because the HEP promotes partnerships with non-profit citizens groups as an efficient mechanism for accomplishing many of the CCMP actions.

The main mechanism for citizen input into the program is the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC), co-chaired by Michelle Doran-McBean of Future City Inc. in Elizabeth, NJ and Roland Lewis of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance. The CAC holds four seats on the Management Committee (the two co-chairs and one other representative from each state) and has a joint representative to the Policy Committee with the Science and Technical Advisory Committee, Charles Warren. The CAC meets quarterly.

For more information on the Citizens Advisory Committee, contact Michelle Doran-McBean at 908-659-0689 or Roland Lewis at 212-935-9831.  

CAC Documents

• Bylaws of the HEP CAC (June 2011) | PDF
  
• List of CAC members and voting rights as of December 8, 2011 | PDF
  
• CAC History | PDF
• Successes and Challenges:  Highlights of Program
  Accomplishments and Challenges for the Future – February 2001 | PDF

Meeting Minutes

• December 8, 2011 | PDF
• September 15, 2011 | PDF
• June 3, 2011 | PDF
• December 15, 2010 | PDF
• September 21, 2010 | PDF
• June 15, 2010 | PDF
• March 11, 2010 | PDF
  • NRDC presentation | PDF
• February 10, 2010 | PDF
• October 26, 2009 | PDF
• July 29, 2009 | PDF
• April 29, 2009 | PDF
• February 18, 2009 | PDF
• December 3, 2008 | PDF
• October 11, 2006
  • NJDEP CSO presentation | PDF (4.76 MB PDF file)
  • NYCDEP CSO presentation | PDF (1 MB PDF file)
• April 11, 2006 | PDF
• January 31, 2006 | PDF
• April 26, 2005 | PDF
• January 27, 2005 | PDF
• October 26, 2004 | PDF
• July 19, 2004 | PDF
• May 10, 2004 | PDF
• February 17, 2004 | PDF
• November 13, 2003 | PDF
• May 12, 2003 | PDF
• September 9, 2002 | PDF
• August 6, 2001 | PDF
• May 7, 2001 | PDF
• May 15, 2000 | PDF
• February 9, 2000 | PDF
• November 15, 1999 | PDF
• May 17, 1999 | PDF
  
  

CAC Resolutions and Positions 

NOTE: The New York‐New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program (HEP) is a partner program and its members occasionally have conflicting positions on regulatory and management issues. One of HEP's roles is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and to work towards resolution of these issues. The opinions of individual agencies or committees do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the program as a whole. 

• CAC position regarding NJDEP bans on oyster restoration research and oyster gardening projects in closed waters (July 1, 2010) (Click Here)
  
  
• CAC position regarding standards for pathogens TMDL
  (April 6, 2010) (Click Here)
  
  
  

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