Ch. 573

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 573
(Senate Bill 307)

AN ACT concerning

Environment - Dredge Spoil - Hart-Miller-Pleasure Island

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the disposition of dredge spoil at the Hart-Miller Island
Dredged Material Containment Facility after the first to occur of either a certain
date and from exceeding or certain heights in certain cells are exceeded reached;
prohibiting the Board of Public Works from issuing a license or an amendment to a
license authorizing the disposition of dredge material in the Hart-Miller Island
Dredged Material Containment Facility after a certain date and from exceeding
certain heights in certain cells; requiring certain State agencies to hold public
meetings concerning the development of the Hart-Miller Island Dredged Material
Containment Facility; requiring certain State agencies to enter into a memorandum
of understanding or agree to an amendment to the memorandum of understanding
by a certain date that will include certain information; and generally relating to
dredge spoil at Hart-Miller-Pleasure Island.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Environment
Section 5-1103 and 16-202
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

Article - Environment

5-1103.

(a) (1) Except for dredge spoil from local dredging projects initiated by
Baltimore County in the waters of Baltimore County, the Department may not approve
any contained area for the redeposit of spoil within 5 miles of the Hart-Miller-Pleasure
Island chain in Baltimore County.

(2)     A contained area described in paragraph (1) of this subsection may not
exceed the approximately 1,100 acre size provided in the projects U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers permit dated November 22, 1976.

(3)      (I) SUBJECT TO SUBPARAGRAPH fin OF THIS PARAGRAPH,
DREDGE SPOIL MAY NOT BE DEPOSITED IN THE HART-MILLER ISLAND DREDGED
MATERIAL CONTAINMENT FACILITY AFTER THE FIRST OF THE FOLLOWING TO
OCCUR:

1. THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF DREDGE SPOIL DEPOSITED IN
THE HART-MILLER ISLAND DREDGED MATERIAL CONTAINMENT FACILITY MAY
NOT EXCEED EXCEEDS REACHES:

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