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(c)   "Director" shall mean the Director of the ([Department of]
Water Resources Administration;

(d)  ["Commission"] "Administration" shall mean the Water
Resources [Commission] Administration;

(e)   "Waters of the State" shall include both surface and under-
ground waters within the boundaries of the State or subject to its
jurisdiction, including that portion of the Atlantic Ocean within the
boundaries of the State, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries,
and all ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, public ditches, tax ditches and
public drainage systems within the State, other than those designed
and used for the purpose of collection, conveyance, or disposal of
sanitary sewage. The flood plain of free-flowing waters is deter-
mined by the Department on the basis of the 50-year flood fre-
quency shall be included as waters of the State;

(f)   "Person" shall include, in addition to any other meaning it
may have under this article, the State, any municipal corporation,
any county or any public or private corporation, copartnership,
firm or any other entity whatsoever;

(g)   "Pollution" shall mean the discharge or deposit into any of
the waters of the State of any liquid, gaseous or solid substance
or substances which may create a nuisance therein or render such
waters unclean or noxious so as to be detrimental to the propaga-
tion, cultivation or conservation of animals, fish or aquatic life, or
unsuitable with reasonable treatment, for use as present or possible
future source of public water supply or unsuitable for commercial,
industrial, agricultural, recreational or other reasonable uses. It shall
also include the discharge or deposit of any substance which, because
of its temperature, is detrimental to or unsuitable for any of the
described uses of waters of the State.

(h) "Principal department" shall mean the Department of Nat-
ural Resources;

"Secretary" shall mean the secretary of the Department of Nat-
ural Resources;

(j) "Board of Review" shall mean the Board of Review of the
Department of Natural Resources.

3.

(a) [The head of the Department shall be the Director, who shall
be appointed by the Governor, upon recommendation of the Secretary
of Natural Resources. The Director is subject to removal as provided
in Section 234 (c) of Article 41 of this Code. The Director shall be a
person with executive ability and experience and with knowledge
of the general principles involved in the planning, management,
conservation and administration of water resources.] The Secretary
shall appoint a person with executive ability, experience, and knowl-
edge of the principles of water resource planning, management, con-
servation, and administration to be director of an agency within the
Department adequately staffed and organized to carry out the pro-
visions of this article, which shall be known as the Water Resources
Administration. The Director shall receive the salary provided in
the annual State budget and shall serve at the pleasure of the
Secretary.