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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".09" citation="COMAR 23.02.04.09" title_num="23" subtitle_num="02" chapter_num="04" heading="Board Action on Applications for Individual Licenses.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The Board shall grant or conditionally grant, or deny, an individual license upon determining if issuance of the license is:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Sufficient to the attainment of riparian rights; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Reasonable in accordance with the best interests of the State.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>In making its determination, the Board shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Consider the recommendations of the Department, the report of the Board’s Administrator, any public testimony at an informational hearing, any documents submitted, and any other relevant information in the record, including any additional oral testimony the Board may elect to hear; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Take into account:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The varying ecological, economic, developmental, recreational, and aesthetic values that the project presents; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The State’s public policy to preserve the wetlands and prevent their despoliation and destruction.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Review of Application.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The Board, through its Administrator, may request the Department to supplement its Report and Recommendation to address specific concerns relevant to determining either the sufficiency of the proposed project or the best interests of the State.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>For any application with interested persons who expressed opposition to the proposed license either in writing to the Department or the Board, or at the public informational hearing, the Board, through its Administrator, shall:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Publish the Department’s Report and Recommendation, including any supplement, on the Board’s website, and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Provide notice of that publication to any interested persons.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Interested persons may submit written comments to the Board after publication of the Department’s Report and Recommendation on the Board’s website under §C(2)(a) of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>The Administrator shall:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Review the Department’s Report and Recommendation, including any supplement;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Review any comments received within 21 days after publication under §C(3) of this regulation, and may review comments received thereafter;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Submit a written recommendation to Board members stating whether an individual license should be granted, and specifying any appropriate terms and conditions;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Before the Board’s action on an individual license, inform the applicant in writing of the following:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Any monetary compensation in lieu of mitigation recommended under Regulation .11 of this chapter; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Any compensation recommended under Regulation .12 of this chapter; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Make available to Board members all records and documents reviewed and considered in preparing the recommendation submitted under §C(4)(c) of this regulation .</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>