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The bill protects Greenbury Point's conservation values and improves resilience and public access, but it limits private development, may require public restoration spending, and imposes additional constraints on military installation planning.
Residents, visitors, and nearby communities: prevents development of Greenbury Point as a golf course, preserving habitat, public open space, and recreational access.
Local communities and downstream residents: enables environmental restoration activities that can improve flood resilience, water quality, and recreational opportunities over time.
Local governments: clarifies statutory authority to apply restoration-related restrictions, reducing legal ambiguity about permissible uses of the site.
Taxpayers and state/local governments: restoration, maintenance, or remediation actions may require public spending, creating new budgetary costs.
Property owners and potential private investors: restricts private development opportunities (e.g., a golf course), reducing potential private investment or revenue prospects.
Military planners and personnel at Naval Support Activity Annapolis/Greenbury Point: adds constraints on future base-related development options, potentially complicating facility planning.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Allows environmental-restoration restrictions to be applied to the Greenbury Point Conservation Area, effectively prohibiting a golf course there.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Sarah Elfreth · Last progress December 11, 2025
Amends a provision of the FY2024 Military Construction Act to allow environmental-restoration-related restrictions to be applied to the Greenbury Point Conservation Area, provided those restrictions are consistent with existing law and regulation. The change creates an explicit bar on developing a golf course at Greenbury Point by authorizing restoration-focused restrictions on land use there. The amendment makes conforming edits to the underlying statutory language but does not provide new funding or create a new federal program; enforcement and implementation would occur through existing legal and regulatory authorities governing environmental restoration and land use.