MDE TESTIMONY, BRIEFINGS AND POSITION STATEMENTS

Maryland General Assembly

2009 Session Position Statements


Senate Bills 

Title

SB 4 Environment - Permitting Process - Environmental Justice Review
SB 47 Environment - Permitting Process - Notice Requirements
SB 69 Vehicle Laws – Air Conditioning Equipment Specifications and Requirements (Environment Committee)
SB 69 Vehicle Laws – Air Conditioning Equipment Specifications and Requirements (Judicial Proceedings Committee)
SB 117 State Board of Well Drillers
SB 120 Environment - Permit Process - Modifications
SB 170 County Board of Health – Meetings and Fee-Setting Powers
SB 184 Environment – Brominated Flame Retardants – Decabrominated Diphenyl Ether - Prohibtion
SB 184 Environment-Brominated Flame Retardants-Decabrominate Ddiphenyl Ether- Prohibition (Memo)
SB 240 Natural Resources - Expanded Use of Waterway Improvement Fund
SB 271 Aquaculture – Shellfish – Leasing
SB 361 Environment - Reducing Lead Risk in Housing - Lead Paint Dust Testing
SB 384 Program Open Space - Impervious Surface Projects - Prohibition
SB 408 Environment-Water Pollution Control-Incentives and Penalties
SB 4324 Environment - Sewage Sludge Utilization - Zoning and Land Use Requirements
SB 450 Allegany County - Upper Potomac River Commission - Savage River Dam - Borrowing Authority
SB 465 Environment - Floating Vessel Platforms
SB 473 Environment - Recycling - Public School Plan
SB 509 Environment - Noise Control Ordinances – Political Subdivisions
SB 530 Task Force to Study Required Deposits on Returnable Beverage Containers
SB 549 Sustainable Forestry Act of 2009
SB 554 Bay Restoration Act of 2009- Senate EHE Committee
SB 554 Bay Restoration Act of 2009 - House ENV Committee
SB 554 Bay Restoration Fund Letter
SB 606 Carroll County - Privately mployed Sanitarians Licensed by the State - Soil Percolation Tests
SB 721 Private Wastewater Treatment Act of 2009
SB 841 Environment - Landfills - Methane Testing
SB 917 Agriculture – Fertilizers and Pesticides – Release Reporting
SB 922 Bay Restoration Fund - Septic Systems - Nitrogen Removal Projects
SB 953 Recycling - Apartment Buildings and Complexes
SB 958 Construction Permits - Expiration Dates
SB 967 Environment - Bay Restoration Fund - Authorized Uses
SB 972 Environment - On Site Sewage Disposal Systems Requirements
SB 975 Public Safety - Regulation of Demolition - Demolition Contractors - Letter
SB 1017 Marine Contractors - Licensure and Regulation - Wetland Permits and Authorizations
SB 1058 Reorganization of State Government - Consolidating the Department of the Environment into the Department of Natural Resources
SJ 9 Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emission