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<section article="gnr" article_name="Natural Resources" number="8-2A-01" title_number="8" title_name="Waters" subtitle_number="2A" subtitle_name="Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Aggregator” means a person that facilitates or coordinates the establishment of practices or projects that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Are implemented by the person or by others;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Produce a quantifiable environmental outcome;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Are registered by the person; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Are made available for purchase by the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“BayStat Program” means the program established under § 8–2A–03 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Environmental outcome” means a commodity that is modeled or directly measured as a single, quantifiable, and certified unit of improvement to the environment, including a nutrient or carbon benefit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Evaluator” means a person other than an aggregator that determines whether environmental outcomes have been achieved based on defined performance measures.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Nonpoint source pollution control project” means a project to improve water quality by a reduction of nitrogen, phosphorus, or sediment pollution.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Nonpoint source pollution control project” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>An agricultural best management implementation practice, including cover crops, riparian forested buffer, manure processing, grassed waterways, animal waste storage structures, and livestock fencing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An urban or suburban stormwater practice;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A sustainable forest management practice, including a forest stewardship plan or a nonornamental urban and suburban tree planting project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Stream and wetland restoration;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Riparian buffer planting;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>A project that demonstrates the effectiveness of an innovative nonpoint source pollution reduction measure provided that the measure is capable of integration into existing nonpoint source pollution programs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Technical assistance necessary to implement a nonpoint source pollution control project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>Improvement of a municipal park located on or adjacent to a waterway, provided that the improvement is limited to state–of–the–art and sustainable nonpoint source pollution control measures that demonstrably improve water quality by reducing nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment pollution; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>Strategic monitoring of water quality improvements from nonpoint source pollution control projects that have been funded, in whole or in part, with grants from the Trust Fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Quantification plan” means a plan in which an aggregator describes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The method that will be used to measure or model environmental outcomes and co–benefits;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The compliance monitoring that will occur to ensure that the proposed actions are taken and maintained over the life of the project;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Verification steps that will be carried out by the State or an evaluator to confirm model results or accurate measurement of environmental outcomes; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The timeline for proposed payments under a contract with the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Trust Fund” means the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Watershed implementation plan” means a plan to achieve the nutrient and sediment limits required under the Chesapeake Bay total maximum daily load.</text>
  </level>
</section>
