This meeting is being held to aid the Department in establishing numeric nutrient criteria for estuaries and coastal waters in the following areas: St. Joseph Bay, Apalachicola Bay (including St. Vincent Sound, East Bay, St. George Sound), Alligator Harbor/Ochlockonee Bay, and Apalachee Bay east to the Fenholloway River. The Department is seeking to gather information on individual marine systems that will serve to support statewide criteria development and provide a solid foundation to establish nutrient criteria appropriate for each specific area. The purpose of the meeting is to solicit and discuss information regarding nutrients and documented associations between nutrients and ecological conditions within the estuaries. While not intended as a meeting of the Numeric Nutrient Criteria Technical Advisory Committee (Nutrient TAC), one or more members of the Nutrient TAC may participate and provide comments at this meeting.