Ch. 504                                   2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 504
(House Bill 493)

AN ACT concerning

Environment - Hazardous Material Security

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of the Environment to establish
establishing a certain fees fee for certain hazardous material and related
facilities; providing for the payment of certain fees to a separate account in the
Community Right-to-Know Fund; specifying certain uses of certain funds
deposited to the Fund; requiring owners, lessees, and operators of certain
facilities involving certain hazardous materials to analyze the security at their
facilities in accordance with certain standards, report certain measures
information, and pay a fee to the Department of the Environment on or before
certain dates; exempting counties and municipal corporations from the
requirement to submit certain fees; requiring the Department to approve adopt
a certain code or set of standards; requiring the Department to conduct certain
audits of certain facilities; requiring the Department to report certain violations
to the Department of State Police for enforcement; providing for the
confidentiality of certain documents except under certain circumstances;
prohibiting a person from knowingly submitting certain false information;
establishing certain penalties for violations of this Act; defining certain terms;
providing that this Act does not affect the availability of other penalties and
remedies relieve a facility from any other reporting requirement; requiring the
Department to adopt certain regulations by a certain date; prohibiting the
Department from adopting certain regulations; authorizing requiring the
Department of State Police, in consultation with the Department, to adopt
certain regulations by a certain date; providing that this Act does not apply in
local jurisdictions that adopt standards that are at least as stringent as certain
standards required by this Act; making the provisions of this Act severable; and
generally relating to the reporting and regulation of certain hazardous
materials and related facilities.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article — Environment
Section 7-604

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Environment

Section 7-701 through 7-710 7-709, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle

"Subtitle 7. Hazardous Material Security"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

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