Introduced December 11, 2025 by Sarah Elfreth · Last progress December 11, 2025
The bill enables necessary cleanup at Greenbury Point by clarifying legal authority and streamlining restoration work, but it may impose temporary or potentially lasting access limits and costs for local users and government actors.
Local residents, recreational users, and Navy personnel will benefit from environmental cleanup at Greenbury Point that reduces contamination risks and can restore safe public access.
The Department of the Navy and local governments gain clearer legal authority and streamlined implementation to carry out the restoration work at Naval Support Activity Annapolis, reducing risk of legal conflict or delays.
Local residents, recreational users, and nearby communities may face temporary — and if broadly scoped, potentially longer-term — access or use restrictions at Greenbury Point during and after restoration.
The Navy and nearby local governments could incur additional costs or operational constraints from restoration-related restrictions or poorly scoped implementation requirements.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Allows environmental restoration-related restrictions at the Greenbury Point Conservation Area on Naval Support Activity Annapolis, consistent with existing law and regulation.
Allows environmental restoration and related land-use restrictions at the Greenbury Point Conservation Area on Naval Support Activity Annapolis, as long as those restrictions follow existing law and regulation. It changes a prior military construction provision to explicitly permit such conservation-related restrictions. The change is narrowly focused on land and environmental management at a specific Navy property and does not itself create new funding or broad new programs.