J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     1381

agencies relative to public policy and procedure necessary to correct
water pollution conditions or violation of any of the laws of Mary-
land relating thereto; to establish such reasonable water quality
standards or criteria for any of the waters of the State; keeping in
mind the public use to which they are or may be put, as may be
deemed necessary for the purpose of this subtitle; to cooperate with
the responsible authorities of other states and federal government or
any agencies thereof concerning policies, procedures and means to be
employed to control, regulate or correct the pollution of any inter-
state waters and to recommend carrying out such procedures to the
proper State agencies; to receive, administer, and expend such funds
as are now or may become available for pollution control from the
federal government or any agency thereof; and to recommend from
time to time such legislative or administrative action as may be
deemed necessary and desirable better to control the pollution of the
waters of the State. The [Commission] Department shall have con-
trol of the pollution of all waters of the State of Maryland, except
as hereinafter provided, which are or may be affected by waste dis-
posal of municipalities, industries, public or private corporations,
individuals, partnerships, associations or any other entity.

(d) The [Commission] Department shall have the authority to,
and shall enforce the provisions of this subtitle and [shall make and
promulgate such rules and regulations and] conduct such investiga-
tions as shall from time to time be deemed necessary to carry out
the provisions of this subtitle. [However, before finally adopting said
rules and regulations, the Commission shall give at least thirty (30)
days' notice, by publication, circular or otherwise, informing all per-
sons who may be interested in said rules and regulations that the
Commission will hear such persons on a certain day or days named
in said notice for the purpose of receiving and considering sugges-
tions before the final adoption of such rules and regulations. The
said notice shall contain a copy of the proposed rules and regulations.]

24.

The [Commission] Department shall be authorized to bring any
appropriate action, in the name of the people of the State of Maryland,
as may be deemed necessary in the discretion of said [Commission]
Department to carry out the provisions of this subtitle and to enforce
any and all laws relating to the pollution of the waters of the State,
except as herein provided.

The [Commission] Department or any agent authorized by [the
Commission] it to represent the [Commission] Department shall have
the right to enter at all reasonable times in or upon any private or
public property for the purpose of inspecting and investigating
conditions relating to the pollution of any waters of the State. The
[Commission] Department shall have the right to call upon any
officer, board, department, commission, school, university or other
State institutions and officers or employees thereof for any assistance
deemed necessary to the carrying out of this subtitle.

It shall be the duty of the Department of Health, the [Commission
of Tidewater Fisheries] Department of Chesapeake Bay Affairs, the
Department of Game and Inland Fish, the [Department of Research
and Education] Natural Resources Institute, the [Department of
Geology, Mines and Water Resources] Maryland Geological Survey,