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Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay will require significant nutrient and sediment load reductions from the wastewater, agricultural, and urban stormwater sectors. The cost of doing so, particularly in the stormwater sector, is daunting. Previous analysis by World Resources Institute and others indicated that the economic benefits of a nutrient trading market could be significant in the Chesapeake Bay watershed for all three of these sectors (Jones et al. 2010). Working with three Maryland and Virginia counties facing significant stormwater runoff nutrient reduction requirements, we explored the feasibility and potential benefits that nutrient trading could offer them and sought to facilitate actual trades. A second goal of the project was to inform the development of new policy, regulation, and stormwater discharge permitting strategy where needed. While no trades were completed, Arlington County, Virginia, decided to purchase credits when needed; Queen Anne’s County, Maryland, made a decision to issue a request for proposals for the potential purchase of nutrient credits; and Montgomery County, Maryland, is considering the purchase of credits in the future. We concluded three factors are critical to successfully introducing nutrient trading in the stormwater sector: the existence of a clear regulatory basis for trading, a stormwater discharge permitting strategy that allows and facilitates trading, and effective outreach to the agricultural community.