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Garrett County begins review of 10-year comprehensive plan
//December 7, 2016
OAKLAND — Garrett County officials are launching a review of the county’s comprehensive plan, which was last updated in 2008.
The planning commission begins the process Wednesday afternoon in Oakland.
The resulting document will have implications for both Deep Creek Lake tourism and for expanded natural gas production if the state permits the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. A state moratorium on fracking is set to expire in October.
State regulators have proposed fracking regulations that would prohibit wellheads within the 41,000-acre Deep Creek Lake watershed.
Fracking opponents are pressing the General Assembly to enact a permanent, statewide ban.
