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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 415
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(j) The licensee shall sign his name in ink on the license at the time of
purchase. The license may not be transferred to another person, nor used or
presented by any person other than the person to whom it was issued.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2000.
Approved May 11, 2000.
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CHAPTER 415
(House Bill 823)
AN ACT concerning
Task Force on the Environmental Effects of MTBE
FOR the purpose of establishing a Task Force on the Environmental Effects of MTBE;
requiring the Task Force to determine and assess certain risks, to examine
certain efforts, and to recommend a certain plan, and to explore certain
alternatives; providing for the composition, quorum, and meetings of the Task
Force and for certain reimbursement of its members; requiring the Task Force to
submit certain reports by certain dates; defining certain terms; making this Act
contingent on the taking effect of another Act; an emergency measure; providing
for the termination of this Act; and generally relating to a Task Force on the
Environmental Effects of MTBE.
BY adding to
Article.:- Environment
Section: 14-601 through 14-603, inclusive, and 14-602 to be under the new
subtitle "Subtitle 6. Task Force on the Environmental Effects of MTBE"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
Preamble
WHEREAS, MTBE has been an extensively used gas additive for octane
enhancement since the phaseout of lead in the 1970s; and
WHEREAS, The 1990 Clean Air Act required that areas with the worst
ground-level ozone air pollution, including the Washington D.C. and Baltimore City
metropolitan areas, use reformulated gasoline to reduce air toxics emissions and
pollutants that form ground-level ozone; and
WHEREAS, Recent studies indicate that MTBE, the most commonly used
additive in reformulated gasoline, may be contaminating ground and surface water;
and
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