PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 488

14-201.

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

(b)     "Department" means Department of [Natural Resources] THE
ENVIRONMENT.

(c)     "Gas" means natural gas, whether or not processed by the removal of
component parts not essential to its use for light, heat, power, or manufactured gas of any
combination or mixture.

(d)     "Gas storage company" means any corporation of this State, any other state,
the District of Columbia, or the United States, which is engaged in supplying gas to local
consumers in this State and which desires to engage in the underground storage of gas in
this State in whole or in part for either direct or ultimate distribution to its consumers.

(e)     "Public body" means the State, any political subdivision, or any unit of, or
created by, either the State or any political subdivision.

(f)     "Underground storage" or "underground storage of gas" means the storing of
gas in a geological stratum or strata beneath the surface of the earth, together with all
operations necessary or convenient [therefore] THEREFOR including but not limited to
the following: acquisition, preparation, alteration, maintenance, utilization, and operation
of an underground storage reservoir for the storage of gas together with the injection of
gas into the underground storage reservoir and its withdrawal therefrom.

(g)     "Underground storage reservoir" means the stratum or strata and the
subsurface areas which are or are to be used for, or in connection with, the underground
storage of gas.

14-301.

"Department" means Department of [Natural Resources] THE ENVIRONMENT.

14-501.

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

(b)     "Coastal area" means all that land and water area lying within Anne Arundel,
Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Harford, Kent, Prince George's,
Queen Anne's, Saint Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties, the
Chesapeake Bay, and lying seaward to the State's territorial jurisdiction.

(c)     "Construction" means any clearing, grading, excavation, building or other
action that would affect the natural environment of the coastal area, or the
commencement of any of these activities. This does not include any activity for the sole
purpose of securing biological or geological data or other data for an economic or
environmental analysis.

(d)     "Department" means the Department of [Natural Resources] THE
ENVIRONMENT.

(e)     "Facility" means:

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