{"id":19673,"date":"2018-01-17T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=19673"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:13:53","slug":"governor-larry-hogans-budget-fully-funds-bay-restoration-and-land-conservation-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/01\/17\/governor-larry-hogans-budget-fully-funds-bay-restoration-and-land-conservation-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Larry Hogan&#8217;s Budget Fully Funds Bay Restoration and Land Conservation Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Hogan Administration Continues Strong Support for Environment and Natural Resources<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4548\/38681487051_c4c736219f_b_d.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Natural Resources Secretary Mark Belton\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/>Governor Larry Hogan\u2019s budget request for Fiscal Year 2019 continues to demonstrate his administration&#8217;s strong support for Chesapeake Bay restoration and the preservation and protection of Maryland&#8217;s environment and natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActions speak louder than words and the governor&#8217;s budget can be heard loud and clear,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> Secretary Mark Belton said. &#8220;Governor Hogan\u2019s historic and targeted investments in bay restoration, land conservation and recreation programs are essential to our state&#8217;s progress meeting our Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement goals.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the budget outlined Tuesday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/ccs\/Pages\/funding\/trust-fund.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund<\/a> receives $52.9 million, marking the third year in a row that the Hogan administration has fully funded this cost-effective and targeted bay restoration and water quality program. Funding for the Trust Fund under the Hogan administration exceeds the amount provided in the previous four years by 80 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The budget also marks the first time since 2008 that no funding for transfer tax-funded programs, including <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/land\/Pages\/ProgramOpenSpace\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Program Open Space<\/a>, is diverted to the state&#8217;s General Fund. Programs funded by the transfer tax receive $253 million, an increase of $67 million from Fiscal Year 2018. Additionally, repayment of past transfers begin with $6 million in additional funding for critical maintenance projects at Maryland&#8217;s network of 72 state parks.<\/p>\n<p>Total funding for the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Park Service<\/a> exceeds the level provided during the previous four years by 25 percent. The increase of $3.8 million includes seven new positions to support record-breaking park attendance and visitation (~14 million in 2017) at parks and other public lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hogan Administration Continues Strong Support for Environment and Natural Resources Governor Larry Hogan\u2019s budget request for Fiscal Year 2019 continues to demonstrate his administration&#8217;s strong support for Chesapeake Bay restoration and the preservation and protection of Maryland&#8217;s environment and natural resources. \u201cActions speak louder than words and the governor&#8217;s budget can be heard loud and<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/01\/17\/governor-larry-hogans-budget-fully-funds-bay-restoration-and-land-conservation-programs\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,23,12,33],"tags":[3092,4089,2952,3003],"class_list":["post-19673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-land","category-parks","category-the-bay","tag-chesapeake-and-atlantic-coastal-bays-trust-fund","tag-chesapeake-bay-watershed-agreement","tag-larry-hogan","tag-program-open-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19673"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19688,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions\/19688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}