EPA Head To Appear At DC Clean Water Conference

WASHINGTON (AP) -- EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is scheduled to appear at a panel discussion on what's coming next from the Obama administration on Chesapeake Bay restoration.

Jackson is scheduled to speak Monday afternoon at the Choose Clean Water Conference in Washington.

Chuck Fox, the EPA's senior advisor on the bay, will moderate the discussion. Deputy Transportation Secretary and former Maryland Transportation Secretary John Porcari will also be on the panel.

The conference focuses this year on President Obama's Executive Order on Chesapeake Bay restoration and congressional reauthorization of the Chesapeake Bay Program, which has led bay restoration efforts.

The conference began Sunday and runs through Tuesday.