{"id":30301,"date":"2020-03-25T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=30301"},"modified":"2020-03-24T17:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:50:26","slug":"pumpout-grants-available-for-maryland-marinas-for-2020-boating-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/03\/25\/pumpout-grants-available-for-maryland-marinas-for-2020-boating-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpout Grants Available for Maryland Marinas for 2020 Boating Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Applications Due April 15<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7326\/26595964423_5588801e2b.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a pumpout station at a marina\" width=\"352\" height=\"315\" \/>The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> announces the availability of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Boating\/Pages\/pumpout\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pumpout Operations and Maintenance grants<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for the 2020 boating season. This program assists marinas in offering reliable pumpout service to Maryland boaters. Applications<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are due April 15.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">State and federal laws prohibit the discharge of raw sewage from boats. Maryland law requires marinas with more than 50 slips, as well as any new or expanding marina, to have a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Boating\/Pages\/pumpout\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pumpout station<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pumpout Operations and Maintenance grants are made available through the federal Clean Vessel Act and state <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Boating\/Pages\/grants.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Waterway Improvement Fund<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which are both funded by fees and taxes paid by boaters.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marinas can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Boating\/Pages\/pumpout\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">enroll in the program and find more information<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> online, or by contacting Clean Vessel Act Program Administrator Celeste Anderson at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:celeste.anderson@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">celeste.anderson@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the current state of emergency to limit spread of the COVID-19 virus, all applications and inquiries should be managed online. Due to mandatory precautions for Maryland state employees, applicants should allow for some additional processing and response time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications Due April 15 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces the availability of Pumpout Operations and Maintenance grants for the 2020 boating season. This program assists marinas in offering reliable pumpout service to Maryland boaters. Applications are due April 15.\u00a0 State and federal laws prohibit the discharge of raw sewage from boats. Maryland law<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/03\/25\/pumpout-grants-available-for-maryland-marinas-for-2020-boating-season\/\">&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":[957,3171],"tags":[3197,4096,2978,2981],"class_list":["post-30301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-boating","tag-boating","tag-marina","tag-pumpout-operations-and-maintenance","tag-waterway-improvement-fund"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30301","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=30301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30303,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30301\/revisions\/30303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}