DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
James B. Coulter, Secretary of Natural Resources
Louis N. Phipps, Jr., Deputy Secretary
Fred L. Eskew, Assistant Secretary for Capital Programs
Henry Silbennann, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management
Spencer P. Ellis, Assistant Secretary for Resources Management

Tawes State Office Building
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-2230

The Department of Natural Resources was created in 1969 by Chapter 154, Acts of 1969, which
consolidated all conservation and natural resources into one department.

The Department of Natural Resources consists of the following agencies: Capital Programs Administra-
tion, Fisheries Administration, Wildlife Administration, Natural Resources Police Force, Forest Service
and Park Service, Water Resources Administration, Maryland Environmental Service, Energy and Coastal
Zone Administration, Maryland Geological Survey, Maryland State Board of Well Drillers, Scenic and
Wild Rivers Review Board, and Maryland Environmental Trust. The Department also includes the Upper
Potomac River Commission, Land Reclamation Committee, Program Open Space Committee, Hazardous
Substances Advisory Council, and other advisory bodies. The Department is responsible for the Maryland
membership units of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, Susquehanna River Basin
Commission, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Potomac River Fisheries Commission, Inter-
state Oil Compact Commission, Interstate Mining Commission, Potomac River Basin Advisory Commit-
tee, Ohio River Basin Commission, and the Coastal States Organization, and for such other departments,
agencies, advisory commissions, boards, committees, councils, or units as may hereafter by law be declared
to be part of the Department of Natural Resources (Code Natural Resources Article, sees. 1-101 through
1-104).

THE BOARD OF REVIEW OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL
RESOURCES

Chairperson.'loha W. Neumann, 1981

Philip S. Thompson, 1982; Edward H. Higgins,
1980; Lem E. Kirk, 1980; Stanley S. Fine, 1981;
Caiman J. Zamoiski, 1981; William H. Corkran,
Jr., 1982.

(Code Natural Resources Article, sees. 1-106
through 1-107).

ADVISORY BOARD TO THE SECRE-
TARY OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Chairperson:\. Edwin Unger
Vice-Chairperson:'E^w\n C. Hannum

Members: Henry Allen, August Berlitz, Carl
DelSignore, Cariton E. Dize, Germaine
Gallagher, Dr. William B. Holton, Boris Lang,
Charles H. Milton, Jr., Dr. Donald Pritchard,

Larry Simms, Hubert 1. Snyder, J. Millard
Tawes, R. Thomas Thayer, Nelson Willingham,
Jr., Claudine G. Wirths.

By Chapter 154, Acts of 1969, the Secretary of
Natural Resources was authorized to create an ad-
visory board for the Department of Natural
Resources. The Secretary determines the size of the
Board. Members serve indefinite terms and repre-
sent the different professional areas or fields of en-
deavor with which the Department of Natural
Resources is concerned (Code Natural Resources
Article, sec. 1-105).

BOAT ACT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chairperson: Alvin L, Simon

Members: August Berlitz, Thomas H. Closs, Sr.,
Julien P. Delphey, William J. Garner, Jr., Phil-
ip L. Loomis, William B. McMahon, Harold
Muma, Oscar D. Nohowell, John P. Schwenk,
T. Marvin Stang, Dudley Taylor, Edwin J.
Wolf, Jeremiah Valliant.