HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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1. UNDEVELOPED AND INACCESSIBLE EXCEPT BY
TRAIL; OR

2. PREDOMINANTLY PRIMITIVE IN A NATURAL
STATE FOR AT LEAST 4 MILES OF THE RIVER LENGTH.

(I) UNDEVELOPED;

(II) INACCESSIBLE EXCEPT BY TRAIL; OR

(III) PREDOMINANTLY PRIMITIVE IN A NATURAL
STATE FOR AT LEAST 4 MILES OF THE RIVER LENGTH.

(2) By July 1, [1976] 1986, the [Department]

SECRETARY shall prepare and complete an inventory and [study]
PLAN FOR THE MANAGEMENT of the river stretches and [related
shorelines] SHORELINE AND RELATED LAND of those rivers included
in subsection (a) of THIS SECTION TO BE INCLUDED IN the scenic
and wild rivers [system] PROGRAM, except Deer Creek in Harford
County. The inventory and [study] PLAN shall evaluate the river
and its [shorelines] SHORELINE AND RELATED LAND as a water,
agricultural, and scenic or wild resource[. The inventory and
plan] AND shall be made in consultation with every affected
governmental unit of any county where the affected river is
located.

(E) Upon completion of [any part of] the inventory and
[study] PLAN, the [Department] SECRETARY shall submit it with any
appropriate recommendations to the governing body of every county
where the affected river is located, for their approval and
recommendations, and to the next regular session of the General
Assembly FOR ITS APPROVAL.

(e) (F) By July 1, [1978] 1990, the [Department] SECRETARY
shall inventory and study every other river and [related
shoreline] SHORELAND SHORELINE AND RELATED LAND in the State and
identify the rivers and their related shorelines or portions of
them THAT ARE eligible for inclusion into the [system] THE SCENIC
AND WILD RIVERS PROGRAM as either a scenic or wild river. Upon
completion of [any part of the] EACH inventory and study, the
[Department] SECRETARY shall submit it, with any recommendations
for additions to the scenic and wild rivers system, to the
governing body of every county where [an affected] THE river is
located, for their approval and recommendations, and to the next
regular session of the General Assembly. [For the purposes of
this inventory and study, (1) a scenic river means a free-flowing
river whose related shorelines are predominately forested,
agricultural, grassland, marshland, or swampland with a minimum
of development for at least two miles of the river length, and
(2) a wild river means a free-flowing river whose related
shorelines are undeveloped, inaccessible except by trail, or
predominately primitive in a natural state for at least four
miles of the river length.]