Senate Bill 186, January 23, 2004

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 SENATE BILL 186 М3 41Ю183 CF 41r0 1 95 By: The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Astle, Brinkley, Brochin, Currie, Della, Dyson, Greenip, Hafer, Harris, Hollinger, Hooper, Jacobs, Jimeno, Kittleman, Klausmeier, Lawlah, Middleton, Munson, Schrader, Stoltzfus, and Stone Introduced and read first time: January 23, 2004 Assigned to: Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs A BILL ENTITLED 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; requiring MDE to review certain standards in a certain time period; establishing certain application fees under certain circumstances; altering certain application fees; authorizing MDE to develop certain regulations; altering certain procedures for applications to the Voluntary Cleanup Program; altering certain procedures for public participation in MDE’s process of approving response action plans; establishing certain liability protection for certain participants receiving a no further requirements notice; 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; authorizing the State to bring a civil action for punitive damage against certain persons who fail to comply with certain orders under certain circumstances; requiring MDE to approve a response action plan for a portion of a property under certain conditions; requiring MDE to convene a certain work group; authorizing certain agents or employees to enter certain private land in 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 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 EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW. [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.