The Chesapeake Bay Program completed a document delineating nutrient trading guidelines entitled Nutrient Trading Fundamental Principles and Guidelines Draft and made this document available to the public for review on September 8, 2000. A series of public meetings were held during the months of September and October in a variety of locations around the Chesapeake Bay watershed for the purpose of providing the public with an explanation of the meaning and purpose of these trading guidelines and to give the public a chance to comment on them. This document herein is a compilation of the public meeting proceedings prepared for each of the 16 public meetings . The format for each proceedings is similar in that it includes a title page, an introduction, a summary of the discussions and comments arranged according to subject matter closely reflecting the table of contents of the guidelines document itself, and a list of meeting participants. Below is a table summarizing the state, date, and location of each of the public meetings.