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Session Laws, 2002
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PARRIS N GLENDENING, Governor S.B. 247
Parris N. Glendening
Governor Senate Bill No. 247 AN ACT concerning Atlantic Coastal Bays Protection Act FOR the purpose of preserving, protecting, and improving the water quality and
natural habitats of the Atlantic Coastal Bays and certain tributaries and
streams by designating certain lands and waters as critical areas that require
especially sensitive consideration with regard to development; making certain
legislative findings; renaming the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission to
be the Critical Area Commission for the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays;
defining certain terms; adding members representing the Atlantic Coastal Bays
watershed to altering the membership of the Critical Area Commission for the
Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays; authorizing the Commission to establish
a certain Advisory Committee; designating certain areas of lands and waters to
be included in the Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, subject to exclusion of
certain types of land after certain findings are made; requiring that every part
of the Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area be subject to an approved Critical Area
Protection Program by a certain date; requiring the Governor of Maryland to
include a certain amount of funds in the budget for certain purposes; requiring
certain local urograms to classify certain areas as intensely developed areas; of
this Act; requiring each local jurisdiction under this Act to submit certain
information to the Commission on or before a certain date providing for the
calculation and utilization of certain growth allocations by certain local
jurisdictions under certain circumstances; requiring local jurisdictions in the
Atlantic Coastal Bay's Bays Critical Area to include certain elements a certain
element in their local program; authorizing local jurisdictions in the Atlantic
Coastal Bays Critical Area to include certain elements in their local program;
requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide certain assistance to
local jurisdictions in the preparation of certain maps or studies; clarifying that
agricultural activities are allowed in certain areas in accordance with certain
requirements under a certain circumstance; establishing certain requirements
for the Commission and for a local jurisdiction located in the Atlantic Coastal
Bays watershed but not in the Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area relating to
minimum stream buffers; requiring a certain local jurisdiction to submit certain
information to the Commission on or before a certain date; establishing certain
requirements for a local jurisdiction in the Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area
relating to the development of a local critical area program; requiring certain
local jurisdictions to submit to the Commission on or before a certain date
certain information relating to the jurisdiction's intent to establish a local
critical area program; requiring certain public hearings during program
development by a local jurisdiction and during program development or
approval by the Commission; requiring that a local jurisdiction review its
program within a certain time period and providing that within that certain
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