The Maryland Department of the Environment has just released their new guidance document for implementing the 2009 stormwater management regulations. The guidance reflects the grandfathering and redevelopment agreement reached earlier this Session by various stakeholders, including MACo. The key provisions of the guidance document will be introduced as emergency regulations. Those regulations are in the final stages of preparation for publication in the Maryland Register.
Hearings for the various stormwater bills have been cancelled, although the bills will not be withdrawn. The bills will remain in case the emergency regulations are not adopted.
[...] MACo has supported the carefully-crafted deal to follow MDE “guidance” with emergency regulations to solidify the reframed interpretation of the deadlines and applications of the new regulations, which go into effect on may 4 of this year. [...]
[...] recent State stormwater regulations is being reconsidered in light of strong opposition to the recent stormwater compromise by Senator Paul Pinsky. Senator Pinsky, who is the active chair of the committee that would [...]
[...] Legislative Review (AELR) held a hearing on April 6 on emergency regulations that would enact the stormwater compromise agreement. At the conclusion of the three-hour hearing, the AELR Committee voted to adopt the [...]