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wise in this limited area of natural resources.

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Now, this area is an area in which the State is

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geared to act. It has the agencies, the Department of

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Natural Resources, the Department of Chesapeake Bay Affairs,

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and the Department of Game and Inland Fish, the Department

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of Means.

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The counties are not geared to act in this area,

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only the State, and I doubt, and I think it would be very

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unwise that the counties be given much authority in this

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area.

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I too am against the counties acting greatly

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in this area and I am not for counties passing their own

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local laws in these areas, but if the State is to wisely

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act with regard to natural resources, it must have the

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flexibility so that it can take action where it thinks it

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necessary in these areas.

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The result of this amendment I suggest would be

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harmful. It would mean this, among two effects: First,

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that the variations would have to be turned over to an

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agency of the State with no state control over that agency

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to change a regulation which varied from county to county