88 MARYLAND MANUAL

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL COMMISSION

Chairman: Joseph H. McLain, 1953

Ex-officio Members: Robert H. Eiley, Director, Depart-
. ment of Health; David H. Wallace, Chairman, Board of
Natural Resources; R. V. Truitt, Director, Department of
Research and Education; Ernest A. Vaughn, Director,
Department of Game and Inland Fish.

Appointed Members: Shepperd T. Powell, 1951; George F.
Hazlewood, 1955.

Paul W. McKee, Executive Secretary
J. Henry Schilpp, Sanitary Engineer
Guy E. Lerner, Chemist
Robert W. Pierce, Chemist
John G. Walters, Chemist
Henry Silbermann, Chemist
Edwin Weber, Chemist

2208 N. Charles St., Baltimore 18 Telephone: Belmont 0167
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Telephone: Belmont 3654

The Water Pollution Control Commission was created in 1947 as a
result of the recommendation of the temporary Committee on Water
Pollution which had been designated to study the problem of water
pollution in 1945. The Commission is composed of seven members,
three of whom are appointed by the Governor for a term of six years,
except that of the first three appointed one shall serve for two years,
one for four years, and the third for six years. The other four mem-
bers are the Director of the State Department of Health, the Chair-
man of the Board of Natural Resources, the Director of the Depart-
ment of. Game and Inland Fish, and the Director of the Department
of Research and Education. The Chairman, who must be one of the
appointed members, is designated by the Governor.

The Commission has the power to pass such regulations as are
necessary to prevent the pollution of the streams and waters within
the State. The agency studies and investigates all sources of stream
pollution; it may request or suggest, that known polluters take proper
steps to correct the situation. Should any request or suggestion not
be complied with, the Commission may order that the request be
fulfilled within a definite period of time. Any polluter who has a com-
plaint or feels a specific hardship in complying may receive a hearing
before the Commission. The Department has collected data in regard
to stream pollution in the various regions of the State and municipal
sewage disposal, and is currently making a survey of industrial waste
disposal. The agency maintains, at The Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, a laboratory for the purpose of determining the amount and
cause of water pollution through chemical and bacterial analysis
(Code 1947 Supp., Art. 19A, sees. 29-34; Acts 1949, Ch. 239).

Expenditures, 1949 -...--..----....---.........$35,987.74
Appropriation, 1950 ............................. 35,075.00

Staff: 7.