(a) The Director of Environmental Protection may establish a Watershed Restoration Grant Program. The purpose of the Program is to provide funds to non-profit organizations to perform water quality protection or improvement activities that would help the County satisfy applicable regulatory requirements of the County's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems permit.
(b) To identify non-profit organizations to perform water quality protection or improvement activities, the Director of the Office of Procurement may issue a competitive solicitation under Chapter 11B that is limited to non-profit organizations.
(c) The Director of Environmental Protection may also establish a supplemental grant program to offset the cost of paying the Charge assessed under Section 19-35 to an owner of an improved aircraft landing area that is exempt from County property taxes under Maryland Code, Tax-Property Art. § 8-302. (2013 L.M.C., ch. 11, § 1; 2015 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 1; 2016 L.M.C., ch. 20, § 1.)
Transition. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to the Office of Procurement by this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department of General Services, from which the function was transferred, must be treated as referring to the Office of Procurement, to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.
Any responsibility or right granted by law, ordinance, regulation, delegation of authority, contract, or other document to the Department General Services in connection with this Procurement Law and Regulations is transferred to the Office of Procurement.