NEP Puget Sound Strategic Initiatives

**Three Priorities for Puget Sound Recovery** In 2012, the Puget Sound Partnership's Leadership Council established three initiatives to tackle multiple issues critical to Puget Sound recovery - Stormwater, Habitat, and Shellfish. To manage this effort, agency and institutional partners assembled into three Strategic Initiative Lead (SIL) teams, charged with bringing people and ideas together to improve the water, habitat, and communities. The SILs conduct strategic planning and fund regional and local projects, supported by federal Puget Sound Geographic Program funds from the Environmental Protection Agency through cooperative agreements with the Washington State Departments of Ecology, Fish and Wildlife, Natural Resources, and Health. **Shellfish Strategic Initiative Lead** **Habitat Strategic Initiative Lead** **Stormwater Strategic Initiative Lead** The Puget Sound Strategic Initiatives are led by a creative and dedicated staff of three Initiative Lead teams for Stormwater, Habitat, and Shellfish. They are guided by the [Puget Sound Partnership's Action Agenda for Puget Sound](https://www.psp.wa.gov/2022AAupdate.php).