Chesapeake Bay
Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Environment - Chesapeake Bay - Vessel Sewage Discharge Areas [HB-885]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment, in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources, to designate areas in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary waters where a vessel may discharge sewage; and requiring a specified vessel operator and lessee to ensure that the discharge of sewage from specified vessels takes place in specified areas.
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Gettr Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Gill Nets - Mesh Size [SB-554]
[Animals ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Establishing that a specified person may not set or fish any gill net that has a mesh size exceeding 7 inches or a stretched mesh size exceeding 7.5 inches for gill nets used in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
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Clean Water Commerce Act of 2017 [HB-417]
[Water ]
[Environmental ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Authorizing funds in the Bay Restoration Fund to be used for the costs associated with the purchase of specified nutrient load reductions, not to exceed a specified amount per year in specified years; requiring the load reductions purchased under the Act to be consistent with specified accounting procedures; requiring the Department of the Environment on or before October 1, 2020, to report to specified committees of the General Assembly on the implementation of the Act; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
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Bay Restoration Fund - Eligible Costs - Expansion [SB-343]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Funding ]
Altering the definition of "eligible costs" as it relates to projects that receive funding from the Bay Restoration Fund to include any wastewater facility upgrade to enhanced nutrient removal, as determined by the Department of the Environment.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
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Bay Restoration Fund - Eligible Costs - Expansion [HB-384]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Altering the definition of "eligible costs" as it relates to projects that receive funding from the Bay Restoration Fund to include any wastewater facility upgrade to enhanced nutrient removal, as determined by the Department of the Environment; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
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Clean Water Commerce Act of 2017 [SB-314]
[Water ]
[Environmental ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Authorizing funds in the Bay Restoration Fund to be used for the costs associated with the purchase of specified nutrient load reductions, not to exceed a specified amount per year in specified years; requiring the load reductions purchased under the Act to be consistent with specified accounting procedures; requiring the Department of the Environment on or before October 1, 2020, to report to specified committees of the General Assembly on the implementation of the Act; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Environment - On-Site Sewage Disposal Systems - Best Available Technology for Nitrogen Removal - Prohibition [HB-281]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting a person from installing, or having installed, on property a person owns in the State in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the Atlantic Coastal Bays watershed, or the watershed of a nitrogen-impaired body of water, an on-site sewage disposal system to service a newly constructed building, unless the on-site sewage disposal system utilizes specified nitrogen removal technology; and repealing specified obsolete provisions of law.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Environment - On-Site Sewage Disposal Systems - Best Available Technology for Nitrogen Removal [SB-266]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to use specified money from the Bay Restoration Fund to assist a person in paying the cost difference between a conventional on-site sewage disposal system and a system utilizing nitrogen removal technology in a specified order of priority; requiring the Bay Cabinet, in consultation with the Chesapeake Bay Commission and other interested parties, to review specified matters; requiring the Bay Cabinet to report its findings to the Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2017; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
BayStat Program and BayStat Subcabinet - Renaming [HB-129]
Renaming the BayStat Program to be the BayTrack Program; and renaming the BayStat Subcabinet to be the Bay Cabinet.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
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Hunting and Fishing - Discounted Licenses - Purple Heart Recipients [HB-68]
[Veterans ]
[Animals ]
[Recreation ]
[Sports ]
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to implement specified programs to provide discounted licenses, stamps, and permits to Maryland residents who are recipients of the Purple Heart Award; requiring the Department to submit a report on the number of specified licenses, stamps, and permits issued to Purple Heart recipients to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2019; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Chesapeake Bay Restoration - Federal Budget Blueprint Funding Reductions - Rescission Request [HJR-10]
[Environmental ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Water ]
[Funding ]
Expressing the opposition of the General Assembly to the drastic cuts to the funding of the Chesapeake Bay Program and specified other programs proposed by the President of the United States in the federal budget blueprint for fiscal year 2018; urging the Governor to publicly oppose the drastic cuts proposed by the President to the funding of specified programs; and requiring specified committees of the General Assembly to monitor and make recommendations regarding federal budget proposals and actions affecting the Chesapeake Bay.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
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Combined sewer overflow outfalls; DEQ to identify owner of outfall discharging into Chesapeake Bay. [HB-2383]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Public Health ]
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ); combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Directs DEQ to identify the owner of any combined sewer overflow outfall that discharges into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and to determine what actions by the owner, if it is not under a state order, are necessary to bring such an outfall into compliance with Virginia law, the federal Clean Water Act, and the Presumption Approach described in the CSO Control Policy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The bill requires any
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
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Coal combustion residuals unit; closure permit, assessments required. [SB-1398]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Water ]
[Mining ]
[Public Health ]
Coal combustion residuals unit; closure permit; assessments required. Requires the owner or operator of a coal combustion residuals unit (CCR unit) to identify water pollution and address corrective measures to resolve it, evaluate the clean closure of the CCR unit by recycling the ash for use in cement or moving it to a landfill, and demonstrate the long-term safety of the CCR unit. The bill requires the owner or operator of each CCR unit to transmit its assessment to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and other agencies or legislative
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Stormwater; erosion and sediment control, 10,000 square foot minimum disturbance. [HB-2008]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Construction ]
Stormwater; erosion and sediment control; 10,000 square foot minimum disturbance. Increases from 2,500 square feet to 10,000 square feet the minimum area of land disturbance within a Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area that triggers the applicability of erosion or stormwater management programs. Current law establishes a 10,000-square-foot threshold for land-disturbing activities that are located outside of Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Purse net fishing prohibited. [HB-1576]
[Animals ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Purse net fishing prohibited. Prohibits fishing for menhaden with purse nets (i) in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries within one-half mile of mean low water and (ii) within three miles of the shoreline of Virginia Beach extending to the North Carolina border.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Study; regulation of menhaden fishing; report. [HJR-572]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Science ]
Study; regulation of menhaden fishing; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the most appropriate means of regulating the fishing of menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Plastic bag tax in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. [SB-925]
[Environmental ]
[Taxes ]
[Water ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Plastic bag tax in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Imposes a five-cent per bag tax on plastic bags provided to customers by certain retailers in localities located wholly within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and directs revenues to be used to support the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan. The bill also allows every retailer that collects the tax to retain one cent of the five-cent tax.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Dredging; TMDL credits, request for assignment of credits equivalent to street sweeping. [SB-558]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Dredging; TMDL credits; request for assignment of credits equivalent to street sweeping. Requests the Chesapeake Bay Program, a regional partnership directing the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, to approve a certain type of dredging as a creditable practice for pollutant removal and to assign to it a number of total maximum daily load (TMDL) credits equivalent to those assigned to the removal of pollutants by street sweeping.