Summers says Bay Restoration Fund needs another 5 million, spars with Eastern Shore lawmakers over fairness of flush tax

Summers says Bay Restoration Fund needs another 5 million, spars with Eastern Shore lawmakers over fairness of flush tax

January 22, 2012

By Daniel Menefee

Environment Secretary Robert Summers

Environment Secretary Robert Summers told Eastern Shore lawmakers the Bay Restoration Fund needs an additional $385 million to upgrade 67 sewage treatment plants in Maryland and echoed Gov. Martin O’Malley’s call to double the flush tax to $60 a year. 

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