Section 8-2A-01 - Definitions(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.(b) "Aggregator" means a person that facilitates or coordinates the establishment of practices or projects that:(1) Are implemented by the person or by others;(2) Produce a quantifiable environmental outcome;(3) Are registered by the person; and(4) Are made available for purchase by the State.(c) "BayStat Program" means the program established under § 8-2A-03 of this subtitle.(d) "Environmental outcome" means a commodity that is modeled or directly measured as a single, quantifiable, and certified unit of improvement to the environment, including a nutrient or carbon benefit.(e) "Evaluator" means a person other than an aggregator that determines whether environmental outcomes have been achieved based on defined performance measures.(f)(1) "Nonpoint source pollution control project" means a project to improve water quality by a reduction of nitrogen, phosphorus, or sediment pollution.(2) "Nonpoint source pollution control project" includes:(i) An agricultural best management implementation practice, including cover crops, riparian forested buffer, manure processing, grassed waterways, animal waste storage structures, and livestock fencing;(ii) An urban or suburban stormwater practice;(iii) A sustainable forest management practice, including a forest stewardship plan or a nonornamental urban and suburban tree planting project;(iv) Stream and wetland restoration;(v) Riparian buffer planting;(vi) A project that demonstrates the effectiveness of an innovative nonpoint source pollution reduction measure provided that the measure is capable of integration into existing nonpoint source pollution programs;(vii) Technical assistance necessary to implement a nonpoint source pollution control project;(viii) Improvement of a municipal park located on or adjacent to a waterway, provided that the improvement is limited to state-of-the-art and sustainable nonpoint source pollution control measures that demonstrably improve water quality by reducing nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment pollution; and(ix) Strategic monitoring of water quality improvements from nonpoint source pollution control projects that have been funded, in whole or in part, with grants from the Trust Fund.(g) "Quantification plan" means a plan in which an aggregator describes:(1) The method that will be used to measure or model environmental outcomes and co-benefits;(2) The compliance monitoring that will occur to ensure that the proposed actions are taken and maintained over the life of the project;(3) Verification steps that will be carried out by the State or an evaluator to confirm model results or accurate measurement of environmental outcomes; and(4) The timeline for proposed payments under a contract with the State.(h) "Trust Fund" means the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund.(i) "Watershed implementation plan" means a plan to achieve the nutrient and sediment limits required under the Chesapeake Bay total maximum daily load.Amended by 2022 Md. Laws, Ch. 238, Sec. 1, eff. 7/1/2022.Amended by 2022 Md. Laws, Ch. 237, Sec. 1, eff. 7/1/2022.Amended by 2018 Md. Laws, Ch. 585, Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2018.Amended by 2016 Md. Laws, Ch. 43, Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2016.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.