WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 242

CHAPTER 242
(House Bill 222)

AN ACT concerning

Department of Agriculture - Cost Sharing for Water Pollution Control

FOR the purpose of repealing a certain limitation on the use of State funds under the
Department of Agriculture's cost sharing program for water pollution control.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Agriculture
Section 8-704(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1985 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Agriculture

8-704.

(a) (1) State cost sharing in any project may be made available for up to 87 1/2
percent of eligible costs, not to exceed a dollar amount of up to $50,000 as determined by
a regulation adopted jointly by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the
Environment.

(2)     State cost sharing funds may be made available for any project if:

(i) The Department of Agriculture, the soil conservation district, and
a person have executed an agreement which, among other things, obligates the person to
establish, construct, or install the best management practice in accordance with technical
specifications, to maintain the best management practice for its expected life span, and to
provide the required matching funds for the project;

(ii) The Board of Public Works has given approval to the project when
the proceeds of State bonds are to be used to finance the State share; and

(iii) The soil conservation district has certified to the Department that
the project meets all applicable technical standards, and that all submitted invoices
properly represent eligible costs.

(3)     (i) 1. Except as authorized under sub-subparagraph 2 of this
subparagraph and before the Department of Agriculture executes a cost sharing
agreement with a farm tenant, it shall obtain the consent of the landlord to the terms and
conditions of the agreement.

2. The Department may execute the agreement without the
consent of the landlord if:

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