ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

Ch. 73

CHAPTER 73
(House Bill 294)

AN ACT concerning

Brownfields Redevelopment Reform Act

FOR the purpose of providing that certain applicants and certain properties may be
eligible to participate in the Voluntary Cleanup Program in the Maryland
Department of the Environment (MDE) under certain conditions; altering the
process by which a person may apply for, receive, and maintain inculpable
person status; requiring MDE the Department to review certain standards in a
certain time period; establishing certain application fees under certain
circumstances; altering certain application fees; authorizing MDE to develop
requiring the Department to adopt certain regulations; altering certain
procedures and requirements for applications to the Voluntary Cleanup
Program; altering certain procedures and deadlines for public participation in
MDE'o the Department's process of approving response action plans;
establishing certain liability protection for certain participants receiving a no
further requirements notice; establishing certain liability protections for certain
participants and successors in interest to certain property; requiring certain
persons to submit certain information to a one-call system in Maryland;
requiring certain persons to be responsible for the cost of cleaning up a property
under certain conditions; establishing certain fees for certain conditions on
certain property; authorizing the State to bring a civil action for punitive
damage damages against certain persons who fail to comply with certain orders
under certain circumstances; clarifying that certain actions by the Department
do not affect certain active enforcement actions; requiring MDE to approve a
response action plan for a portion of a property under certain conditions;
requiring MDE the Department to convene a certain work group; authorizing
certain agents or employees to enter certain private land in Montgomery County
and Baltimore City under certain conditions; providing that certain persons and
contaminated properties are eligible for money from the Brownfields
Redevelopment Incentive Program in the Department of Business and Economic
Development; altering certain requirements for certain local governments to
participate in the program; altering the process for the distribution and use of
certain contributions; defining altering the definitions of certain terms; and
generally relating to the Voluntary Cleanup Program and the Brownfields
Redevelopment Incentive Program.

BY adding to

Article - Environment

Section 7-266.1 and 7-506.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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