Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 26 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT › Part 4 - SUBTITLES 19-30 › Subtitle 22 - COASTAL FACILITIES REVIEW › Chapter 26.22.01 - Coastal Facilities Review › Section 26.22.01.01 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. In this chapter,
				  the following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Coastal area" means all that land and
				  water lying within Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles,
				  Dorchester, Harford, Kent, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, Somerset,
				  Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties, including the waters of the
				  Chesapeake Bay, and waters lying seaward to the State's territorial
				  jurisdiction.
(2) "Construction"
				  means any clearing, grading, excavation, building, or other action that would
				  affect the natural environment of the coastal area or the commencement of any
				  of these activities. This does not include any activity for the sole purpose of
				  securing biological or geological data or other data for an economic or
				  environmental analysis.
(3)
				  "Department" means the Department of the Environment.
(4) "Facility" means:
(a) Any pipeline designed to carry crude oil
				  or natural gas ashore from offshore sources;
(b) Any intermediate production terminal or
				  refinery which is designed to process at least 10,000 barrels of crude oil
				  equivalent per calendar day;
(c)
				  Any oil storage facility designed to handle crude oil, and:
(i) Whose total design capacity is at least
				  100,000 barrels,
(ii) Which
				  occupies at least 50 acres, or
(iii) Whose average throughput is at least
				  10,000 barrels per calendar day;
(d) Any operations base which:
(i) Includes port and harbor
				  facilities,
(ii) Occupies at least
				  25 acres, and
(iii) Is designed,
				  constructed, and operated as an assembly area for the storage, handling, and
				  transport of supplies whose next and final destination is any oil and/or gas
				  exploration, development, or production-related operation conducted in the
				  territorial sea, contiguous zone, or high seas area; or
(e) Any fabrication yard which is an assembly
				  operation used for the construction or preparation of petroleum drilling rigs,
				  jackets or platforms, or wellhead installations, whose final destination is
				  installation or operation in the territorial sea, contiguous zone, or high seas
				  area.
(5) "Government
				  agencies" means the government of the United States, the State of Maryland, or
				  any other state, their political subdivisions, units, or instrumentalities, and
				  interstate units.
(6) "Intermediate
				  production terminal" means a facility which is designed to perform one or more
				  of the following functions:
(a) Separation of
				  natural gas from an oil or oil/water mixture or sand from an oil or oil/water
				  mixture;
(b) Dehydration of natural
				  gas;
(c) Pressurization of an oil
				  or oil/water mixture or natural gas;
(d) Extract and treat heavy fractions of
				  natural gas such as butane and propane; or
(e) Load, offload, or transship crude oil or
				  natural gas in any form.
(7) "Person" includes corporations,
				  companies, associations, firms, partnerships, and joint stock companies, as
				  well as individuals and government agencies.
(8) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the
				  Environment.
(9) "Statement" means
				  the economic, fiscal, and environmental statement required by Environment
				  Article, §
											14-506, Annotated Code of
				  Maryland.