WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 6

Engineering, [technical] TECHNICAL, and administrative services required to
implement the provisions of this subtitle shall be funded as provided in the State
budget.

8-1001.

(a) In this subtitle[,] the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) (1) "Benefited property" means land immediately abutting the waters of
the State THAT IS protected by an erosion control project constructed under the
provisions of this subtitle.

(2) [Also, it may include] "BENEFITED PROPERTY" INCLUDES land
in the vicinity of the waters of the State THAT IS protected by the erosion control
project when:

(I) [the] THE owner of the land has rights of access to [it] THE
PROJECT immediately abutting the waters; and

(II) [the] THE owner is a party to the application for assistance in
the project.

(g) "Shore erosion control project" means a competently designed work
[project] PROJECT, which may include but is not limited to erection or placement of
bulkheads, groins, or other erosion control devices, and measures required to stabilize
waterside, shorelines, and banks, and to change drainage patterns, all in order to halt or
retard erosion of shorelines and deposit of eroded sediments in the waters of the State.

8-1002.

The Department shall:

(1) Develop and implement a program to educate the public on every
phase of shore and bank erosion, its causes and effects, the locations where erosion is a
problem, and steps to be taken to control [it] EROSION;

(4) Design[,] or cause to be designed[,] shore erosion control structures,
including vegetative cover, in shore erosion control districts;

(9) Cooperate with the following units:

(I) [the] THE State Highway Administration for shore erosion
control where essential to protect municipal, county, or State roads;

(II) [the] THE United States Army Corps of Engineers to conduct
shore erosion studies; and

(III) [the] THE Soil Conservation Service of the United States
Department of Agriculture to evaluate and apply vegetative measures for shore erosion
control;

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