WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 234

CHAPTER 234

(House Bill 1249)

AN ACT concerning

Joint Committee on Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas - Study on
the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Program

FOR the purpose of expanding the authority of the Joint Committee
on Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas; requiring the. Joint
Committee on Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas to meet with
certain persons to study and make certain determinations
concerning certain aspects of the Chesapeake Bay Critical
Area Protection Law; requiring the Joint Committee to
report its preliminary and final findings and
recommendations to the Legislative Policy Committee on or
before specified dates; providing for the staff of the
Committee; and generally relating to a study on the
Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Program by the Joint Committee
on Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources

Section 8-1808(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

Preamble

WHEREAS, In 1984 a 25-member Chesapeake Bay Critical Area
Commission was created and charged with drafting criteria that
would guide development in the critical areas of the State; and

WHEREAS, The Commission promulgated criteria in December
1985, which was approved by the General Assembly during the 1986
session; and

WHEREAS, Those criteria were used by the 16 counties and 44
municipalities having land within the critical areas in the
development of their local critical area protection programs; and

WHEREAS, It is the intent of the General Assembly that all
local jurisdictions submit and obtain approval of their local
critical area protection programs from the Commission as required
by the original criteria; and

WHEREAS, The approval of these local critical area
protection programs will set in motion the final implementation
stage of the entire Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Protection
Program; and

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