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Corps Rejects MD Request to Fund Oyster Restoration July-August 2018 Volume 28 Number 5 Exelon sues MD, Shells with baby oysters, calls Conowingo or spat, growing requirements on them, are washed an ‘unfair burden’ overboard ≈ State and utility at odds over from the who is responsible for pollution Oyster entering the Bay. Recovery Partner- BY KARL BLANKENSHIP ship vessel The owners of the Conowingo Dam Robert Lee and the state of Maryland have come to to seed a legal blows over whether the utility can be restored forced to pay potentially billions of dollars reef in the over the coming decades to help clean up Tred Avon the Chesapeake Bay. River in The Maryland Department of the 2018. Lack Environment in late April issued a of funds decision that could require the Chicago- will prevent based utility to pay up to $172 million a more reef year to help control nutrient and sediment construc- pollution flowing past the Susquehanna tion this River dam as a condition of it getting a year. new federal operating license. (Dave In late May, Exelon fired back, saying Harp) those conditions imposed an “unfair burden” on the 94-foot-high hydroelectric facility that would cost $7 billion over the Corps rejects MD request to fund oyster restoration course of its requested 50-year operating Lack of federal funds urging the Corps to explicitly request license — a figure the company said was ≈ Feds give qualified OK to dredge restoration funding in future years. “orders of magnitude” more than the dam may halt reef construction oyster shells from Man O’ War Shoal. Cardin said he reinforced that mes- was worth. in the Tred Avon River. See article on page 7. sage with senior Corps leaders when It asked the MDE to reconsider its BY TIMOTHY B. WHEELER Tred Avon. A Cardin spokesman said he met with them in early April. decision, and filed challenges in both state Bay Oyster restoration in Mary- his office has requested an immediate Sarah Lazo, spokeswoman for the and federal courts. Exelon said it went to land, which has been beset by disputes meeting with Corps leaders to get an Baltimore District, said the District court at the same time it asked the MDE and delays the last two years, appears explanation. had planned to issue a contract this to reconsider its decision because of the headed for further delays. Cardin had said in April that he year to construct the 45 acres of reefs “seriousness of the issues at hand.” Despite pleas and pressure from was “pretty confident” that the Corps needed to complete reef construction “The dam itself does not produce any the state’s congressional delegation, would provide at least some fund- in the Tred Avon River, with a cost pollution,” Exelon said in a statement the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ing for oyster restoration in its Civil ranging from $3 million to $5 million. issued May 25. “Rather, the science left funding for oyster restoration out Works work plan, even though the She said the Corps headquarters pro- clearly shows that the pollutants that of its Civil Works work plan for the budget passed by Congress in March vides no explanation for why projects travel down the Susquehanna River, from current fiscal year, which ends Oct. 1. did not specifically allocate any are or are not included in the annual New York and Pennsylvania, are the That decision, disclosed in early June, money for such work. work plan. source of the nutrients and sediments that means the Corps’ Baltimore District Cardin said he had been optimistic Chris Judy, shellfish program flow into the Bay.” will have to shelve plans to complete because Congress has approved a director for the Maryland Depart- In response, the MDE said it would the construction of reefs in the Tred larger budget for the Corps than ment of Natural Resources, said state “vigorously defend our comprehensive Avon River on the Eastern Shore — at the White House had sought, and officials would work with the Corps to Conowingo plan to restore the river and least for now. members of Congress had expressed see “what the next steps are.” the Bay. The Hogan administration is Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris support for oyster restoration. Con- “This is exactly what we feared committed to using science, law and Van Hollen, both D-MD, expressed gressional rules prohibited earmark- would happen … It’s a real setback,” partnerships for environmental progress disappointment, noting that funding ing any of that extra funding for said Allison Colden, senior fisheries throughout the entire Chesapeake Bay was needed to continue the large-scale oyster restoration, but the budget bill watershed and the Conowingo plan is at restoration project under way in the passed in March contained language Oysters continues on page 9 Dam continues on page 27 Bay Journal • July-August 2018 2 is published by Bay Journal Media to inform Editor’s Note BAY JOURNAL the public about ecological, scientific, historic and cultural issues and events related to the Chesapeake Bay. 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