It appears to me that the proposed regulation works against the state's attempt to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. The state has appropriated funds and conducted numerous studies to find ways to stop polluting the bay. One of the ways the bay is currently being polluted is by rain water runoff from polluted pasture and farm lands. This regulation would appear to increase the amount of pollutants on those lands, thus complicating the bay cleanup effort.

This plan is so obviously flawed I suspect there is skulduggery afoot. I will write to State Attorney General Cuccinelli requesting an immediate investigation to determine if my suspicions are correct. It just doesn't seem possible that the state would work against its own cleanup effort unless there were some sort of payoff involved.