Wetlands
Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Aquaculture - Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission, Oyster Advisory Commission, and Leases [SB-437]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Science ]
Altering the composition of the Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission and the Oyster Advisory Commission; requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in coordination with the Aquaculture Coordinating Council, the Department of the Environment, the Wetlands Administrator for the Board of Public Works, and the Department of General Services, to identify State-owned land that is adjacent to certain waterways; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Hearing Canceled on 02/26/2023
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Gettr Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Environment – State Wetlands – Shoreline Restoration [SB-417]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Climate Change ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
[Community Development ]
Altering the requirements for improvements made to protect a person's property against erosion; requiring the Department of the Environment, in coordination with the Department of Natural Resources, to designate priority shoreline restoration zones where conditions exist that degrade the resilience of the land and the habitat connectivity between the land and water; establishing in a certain Fund a coastal resilience and living shoreline restoration account to provide grants for certain shoreline stabilization replacement projects; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
First Reading Education, Energy, And The Environment on 02/02/2023
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
Review of Federal Acts/Rules/Regulations [HB-24]
Review of Federal Acts/Rules/Regulations
Sponsored by: Rep. Mitchell Setzer
Ref To The Com On Judiciary 2, If Favorable, Federal Relations And American Indian Affairs, If Favorable, State Government, If Favorable, Rules, Calendar, And Operations Of The House on 01/30/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Wetland Preservation. [SB-507]
[Environmental ]
[Housing ]
[Water ]
[Construction ]
[Real Estate ]
Adds definitions for "floodway", "natural stormwater infrastructure", and "wetlands" to section 343-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires a proposed housing project of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation that is exempt from all statutes, ordinances, charter provisions, and rules of any government agency relating to planning, zoning, and construction standards to ensure that the proposed housing project does not have a significant adverse impact on wetlands or natural stormwater infrastructure. Requires an environmental assessment
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Sponsored by: Sen. Maile Shimabukuro
Referred To Hsg/wal, Cpc, Referral Sheet 17 on 03/09/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Wetlands; Virginia Marine Resources Commission to review certain guidelines. [HB-1950]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Virginia Marine Resources Commission; wetland mitigation site; improving and enhancing tidal wetlands. Directs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) to review and update its "Guidelines for Establishment, Use and Operation of Tidal Wetland Mitigation Banks in Virginia" (January 1, 1998) and its regulations, Wetlands Mitigation-Compensation Banks and Supplemental Guidelines (the Guidelines). The bill requires VMRC to consider provisions relating to the generation of vegetated and unvegetated wetland credits from wetland creation, restoration,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bloxom
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0334) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Marine Resources Commission and local wetlands boards; permit applications, public notice. [SB-1160]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Marine Resources Commission and local wetlands boards; permit applications; public notice. Requires notices to the public for certain permit hearings relating to fisheries and habitat of the tidal waters to be posted on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall website and reduces the frequency at which such hearing notices are required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation from once a week for two weeks to at least once in the seven days prior to such hearing. The bill allows the Marine Resources Commission or a local wetlands board to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0195) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Wetlands; expedited permits, administrative procedures. [SB-1152]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Defense ]
[Military ]
Expedited wetlands permits; Marine Resources Commission. Requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, in conjunction with local wetlands boards and other affected state and federal agencies, to develop administrative procedures to expedite the processing of applications for wetlands permits from agencies of the United States government, including any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States. Expedited wetlands permits; Marine Resources Commission. Requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, in conjunction with local wetlands
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0277) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Tidal wetland mitigation bank; credits. [HB-1804]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Tidal wetland mitigation bank credits. Authorizes certain entities to purchase or use credits from a tidal wetland mitigation bank located in an adjacent river watershed when such bank contains the same plant community type and salinity regime as the impacted wetlands, which shall be the preferred form of compensation. The provisions of the bill apply only to tidal wetland mitigation banks with a polyhaline salinity regime located in certain subbasins when a tidal wetland mitigation bank with the same plant community type and salinity regime as
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bloxom
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0245) on 03/22/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Wetlands and Waterways - Riparian Rights - Voluntary Registry and Notice [HB-122]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish and maintain a voluntary registry on the Department's website for property owners who have registered a claim of riparian rights with the Department; requiring the Governor to appropriate funds to the Department to cover the cost of establishing and maintaining the registry; and requiring the holder of a covenant for riparian rights to be provided notice of a proposed project in the immediate area at the beginning of the State or local permitting process or other approval process.
Sponsored by: Rep. Heather Bagnall
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/27/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Wetland and Stream Replacement Fund; availability of credits, use of funds. [HB-1628]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Funding ]
Wetland and Stream Replacement Fund; availability of credits; use of funds. Permits the Department of Environmental Quality to use the Wetland and Stream Replacement Fund for purposes other than the purchase of mitigation bank credits, as set out in the bill, if the Department makes a determination within two years after the collection of moneys for a specific impact that mitigation bank credits for such impact will not be available within three years. Currently, the Department can use such funds for other specified purposes if after three years
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bloxom
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0206) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Wetlands zoning permit; eliminates notarization requirement. [SB-867]
[Environmental ]
[Real Estate ]
[Water ]
Wetlands zoning permit; notarization requirement. Eliminates the notarization requirement for a permit issued by a local wetlands board for the use or development of any wetland.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0099) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Wetland and stream mitigation banks; location of site. [SB-654]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Wetland and stream mitigation banks; location of site. Allows a permit applicant to purchase wetland and stream mitigation credits from the locality in which the site is located if no credits are available to purchase in the primary service area or no credits are available at a price below 200 percent of the current price of credits.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission. [SB-773]
[Agriculture ]
[Water ]
Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Commission. Provides that failure of an oyster lease holder to respond to a wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission request regarding an application within 30 days of receipt of such request shall be deemed to be consent to the application.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Left In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 11/21/2022
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US Congress 117th Congress
Water Resources Development Act of 2022 [S.4136]
[Water ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Environmental ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
An original bill to provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, and for other purposes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Carper
By Senator Carper From Committee On Environment And Public Works Filed Written Report. Report No. 117-124. on 06/22/2022
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Wetlands and Waterways Program Division - Permitting for Ecological Restoration Projects - Required Study [SB-945]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Science ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment's Wetlands and Waterways Program Division to study permitting for ecological restoration projects; requiring the Department to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by June 1, 2024; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Third Reading Passed (47-0) on 04/08/2022
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Wetlands and Waterways Program Division - Permitting for Ecological Restoration Projects - Required Study [HB-869]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Science ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment's Wetlands and Waterways Program Division to study permitting for ecological restoration projects; requiring the Department to report on its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by June 1, 2024; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 465 on 05/16/2022
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Conservation Finance Act [HB-653]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Providing that the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Natural Resources, and the Maryland Environmental Trust must allow participants in certain cost-sharing programs to participate in and receive compensation from greenhouse gas markets, carbon credits, or soil carbon programs under certain circumstances; authorizing certain units to enter into pay-for-success contracts with certain aggregators to procure certain environmental outcomes projects or already certified environmental outcomes; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar Barve
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 237 on 04/21/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission. [SB-773]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Commission. Provides that failure of an oyster lease holder to respond to a wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission request regarding an application within 30 days of receipt of such request shall be deemed to be consent to the application.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Continued To 2023 In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (15-y 0-n) on 02/08/2022
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Wetland Preservation. [SB-3010]
[Environmental ]
[Housing ]
[Water ]
[Construction ]
[Community Development ]
Amends provisions that exempt a proposed housing project of the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation from statutes, ordinances, charter provisions to include a requirement that the proposed project does not impact wetlands or natural stormwater infrastructure. Requires an environmental assessment for actions under the environmental impact statements law that propose any development that would impact wetlands or natural stormwater infrastructure.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Gabbard
Passed First Reading. on 01/24/2022
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Wetland Preservation. [HB-1902]
[Environmental ]
[Housing ]
[Water ]
[Construction ]
[Real Estate ]
Amends provisions that exempt a proposed housing project of the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation from statutes, ordinances, charter provisions to include a requirement that the proposed project does not impact wetlands or natural stormwater infrastructure. Requires an environmental assessment for actions under the environmental impact statements law that propose any development that would impact wetlands or natural stormwater infrastructure.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Lopresti
The Committee(s) On Hsg/wal Recommend(s) That The Measure Be Deferred. on 02/03/2022