{"id":35850,"date":"2022-03-28T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=35850"},"modified":"2022-03-28T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:31:33","slug":"pumpout-operations-and-maintenance-grants-available-for-2022-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/03\/28\/pumpout-operations-and-maintenance-grants-available-for-2022-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpout Operations and Maintenance Grants Available for 2022 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Funding for Marinas to Support Clean Waterways<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1972\/43246434130_a8d76cd22d.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of small marina with pumping station on pier\" width=\"364\" height=\"273\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryland DNR photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is now accepting applications from marinas for grants up to $2,500 for operations and maintenance of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Boating\/Pages\/pumpout\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">marine sewage pumpout stations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Applications are available <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Boating\/Pages\/pumpout\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and are accepted now through April 15.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This program assists marinas in offering reliable pumpout service to area boaters. Pumpout stations give boaters a proper method of disposing of their sewage and thus prevent it from entering Maryland\u2019s waters. The department supports their installation and operation as part of the overall strategy of reducing nutrients in the Chesapeake Bay.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The program is funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with Clean Vessel Act dollars with supporting funds from the Maryland Waterway Improvement Fund . Boaters pay into both funds through federal e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">xcise taxes on fishing equipment, motorboat and small engine fuels, and import duties a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd when they title a boat in Maryland and pay the state&#8217;s excise tax.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Information and enrollment for the operations and maintenance grant program is available on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Boating\/Pages\/pumpout\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DNR website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or by email to the Clean Vessel Act Program Administrator Celeste Anderson at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">celeste.anderson@maryland.gov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding for Marinas to Support Clean Waterways The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is now accepting applications from marinas for grants up to $2,500 for operations and maintenance of marine sewage pumpout stations. Applications are available online and are accepted now through April 15.\u00a0 This program assists marinas in offering reliable pumpout service to<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/03\/28\/pumpout-operations-and-maintenance-grants-available-for-2022-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":[957,3171,33],"tags":[3197,5160,2978],"class_list":["post-35850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-boating","category-the-bay","tag-boating","tag-clean-marinas","tag-pumpout-operations-and-maintenance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850","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=35850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35853,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850\/revisions\/35853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}