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Representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Presbyterian Church-USA, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, the Reformed Church in America, and the United Church of Christ have signed an agreement formally pledging to recognize one another’s baptisms when water and the Trinitarian formula are used.

Interesting group, BTW. Three mainline groups, of Presbyterian/Reformed background, and the ex-conservative CRCNA which is scurrying as fast as it's little legs can take it in mainline liberal direction. (We still get the CRC denominational rag, somehow. It's distressing to watch.)

Being that the Romish side of the equation is the USCCB, how official is this?

I actually don't "get it." The Catholic Church accepts ALL Christian baptism as valid, and has since before the Council Of Nicaea, which is a good long time.

The only exceptions being,

if they don't baptize in the "name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit", or
if they used those words, but don't mean the Trinity (e.g. the Mormons, who have a non-Trinitarian understanding of God.)

When my husband (baptized Baptist) and I (baptized Catholic) got married (Catholic Sacrament of Matrimony), all he needed was a document or statement from his church, stating that he was baptized.

So what, if anything, has changed? Sounds like nothing's changed. So why would the USCCB be signing it?

(scratching head, sniffing the air for carbohrdrates)