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Deal lets current projects proceed under less stringent rules
Builders, environmentalists and government officials have reached a compromise in a looming legislative fight that threatened to weaken Maryland’s new storm-water pollution rules, they said Monday.
The deal, hammered out over more than a week of negotiations, would head off a move by lawmakers in Annapolis to soften or delay by up to a decade the requirements for controlling runoff from development, which are supposed to take effect May 4.
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Under the deal, the state Department of the Environment would amend its rules to “grandfather” some residential and commercial developments already in the planning pipeline. The state also would grant some flexibility to redevelopment projects in designated growth areas, easing how much they must control runoff from lawns, buildings and pavement.
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Under the compromise, projects that already have preliminary approval from county or municipal government would be able to proceed in many cases under existing, less-stringent, storm-water rules. Developers would get up to three years to get final local approval of their plans, but they would have to start construction by 2017 or be forced to install more runoff controls
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