Maryland House Approves Funds for Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
posted 4:56 am Thu November 15, 2007 - Annapolis, Md.
The House agreed unanimously to divert $50 million in tax money - some of it from gas taxes, some of it from car rental taxes - for Chesapeake cleanup. After final approval, the bill will head to the Senate, which has agreed to set aside money for Chesapeake cleanup, although from different taxes. The money would be aimed at helping Maryland meet 2010 restoration goals set by a federal agreement among several states in the watershed. But scientists said those goals, agreed to in 2000, won't be met.
If the Chesapeake fund clears the Senate, as expected, legislative negotiators will still have to smooth out their differences in how to pay for it before the fund becomes law.On the Net:
Read House Bill 23: http://mlis.state.md.us/2007s1/billfile/HB0023.htm
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