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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor
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Ch. 289
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requiring a certain acreage goal in a priority preservation area; requiring an
update of a county's comprehensive plan to include a certain evaluation relating
to priority preservation areas; requiring the Department of Planning and the
Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation to certify priority
preservation areas jointly; requiring the Governor to appropriate certain
additional funds for certain soil conservation districts: establishing a University
of Maryland Agricultural Agriculture and Natural Resources Internship
Program at the University of Maryland, College Park; providing that the
internship is unpaid; requiring the Department of Agriculture to adopt certain
regulations; establishing a program for certification of a county's priority
preservation arena; establishing the application and notification processes for
certification of priority preservation areas; altering the process for the
certification of county agricultural land preservation programs to include
priority preservation areas: altering certain time frames and procedural
requirements for the certification and recertification of county agricultural land
preservation programs; prohibiting the certification for priority preservation
areas unless the Department of Planning and the Foundation agree that certain
criteria are satisfied; specifying eligibility for certain State funding; requiring
the Department of Planning and the Foundation to adopt certain regulations by
a certain date; requiring the Department of Planning and the Foundation to
make a certain report; defining certain terms; expressing the intent of the
General Assembly that the Governor make certain appropriations to the
Maryland Agricultural Water Quality Cost Share Program, the Cover Crop
Program, the Manure Transport Program, the Maryland Agricultural Land
Preservation Foundation, the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based
Industry Development Corporation, the Maryland Cooperative Extension, and
certain State Soil Conservation Districts under certain circumstances; and the
Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development Assistance Fund, and
a certain marketing and rural assistance program in the Maryland Department
of Agriculture; encouraging the Department of Agriculture to modify the Cover
Crop Program for the harvest of certain cover crops for biofuel production;
supporting the promotion of agricultural education in the State; requiring the
University System of Maryland to conduct certain research; requiring certain
agencies to report to certain legislative committees on the effectiveness of
certain increases in funding after a certain period of time; requiring the
Department of Agriculture to review certain programs and certain technology
infrastructure in the Department and submit a certain report regarding
additional funding needs to the Governor and the General Assembly by a certain
date; requiring the Department of the Environment and the Department of
Agriculture to jointly review the status of a certain loan program and submit a
certain report to the Governor and the. General Assembly by a certain date;
encouraging the Governor to provide additional funds, to the extent available, to
the Department of the Environment for a certain fiscal year to be used for a
certain loan program; establishing an Incentives for Agriculture Task Force;
providing that certain provisions of the Maryland Public Ethics Law do not
apply under certain circumstances to certain regulated lobbyists; providing for
the membership and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to
review certain reports and incentives; requiring the Task Force to identify new
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