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Puget Sound Partnership finalizes 2026–2030 Action Agenda revisions, seeks leadership-council review
Summary
Puget Sound Partnership staff presented edits to the draft 2026–2030 Action Agenda following public comment, reorganizing material into four chapters, expanding a technical appendix and documenting partner commitments. The partnership will send the final draft to its leadership council next week and seek adoption in June before EPA review.
Rob Crabill, planning manager at the Puget Sound Partnership, summarized revisions to the draft 2026–2030 Action Agenda and the next steps for adoption. The draft was reorganized into four chapters, with an expanded appendix that documents topic descriptions, progress indicators and a table of ongoing programs. Crabill said the appendix will list more than 300 partner commitments and 22 program targets and that most public comments were addressed with clarifying edits.
Why it matters: The Action Agenda is the region’s shared ecosystem recovery plan used by state and federal partners to prioritize budgets and policy. Crabill said the document is used by the state legislature and governor "to assess and prioritize different budget requests and policies" and that it also functions as the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for the National Estuary Program.
Key changes and context: Crabill told the board that a final public comment period generated more than 400 comments; about 60% of those prompted edits designed to make actions more specific and implementation-oriented. The main structural change removed a previously separate "connections and assessments" chapter and moved detailed technical content into appendix materials so the main document can focus on recovery priorities. He said the action agenda now lists outcome statements, vital signs and the strategies and actions tied to them.
On specific topics, Crabill noted modest additions to the research and monitoring topic—five actions emphasizing social science—and new icons to flag items required by state implementation plans or related to outreach and adaptation. He also described several mergers and refinements to reduce redundancy in habitat, floodplain and pollution topics, and he said a new action was added on vessel impacts to address emerging fuels and non‑floating oils.
Next steps: Crabill said planning staff will submit the final draft to the leadership council next week so council members have time to review it ahead of a June meeting where adoption may be considered. If both the leadership council adopts the agenda and EPA approves it as the region’s CCMP, Crabill said the agenda will be ready for broad implementation with partners and commitments tracked through a more dynamic implementation plan.
