MARVIN MANDEL,

Governor

2093

(f) "National pollutant discharge elimination
system" [shall mean] MEANS the national system for the
issuance of permits as designated by the 1972 amendments
to Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

8-1412.

(b) A person aggrieved by an order OR PERMIT issued
[may] DOES not have the right to appeal to the board of
review as provided in Title 1 of this article, but may
obtain immediate judicial review under the provisions of
§§ 255 and 256 of Article 41 of the Code and the Maryland
Rules of Procedure,

8-1413.

(b)   Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section,
any person intending to construct, install, modify,
extend, alter, or operate any industrial, commercial or
recreational facility or disposal system or any
state-owned treatment facility or any other cutlet, or
establishment, the operation of which would result in or
be capable of causing a discharge of pollutants or an
increase in the discharge of pollutants into the waters
of the state, shall obtain a permit from the
administration. The administration may require a
discharge permit from any other activity by rule or
regulation.

(c)   After public notice and opportunity for public
hearing, the administration may issue a permit for the
discharge of any pollutant or combination of pollutants
into [state waters] THE WATERS OF THE STATE if the
discharge meets or will meet all applicable state and
federal water quality standards and effluent limitations
and all other requirements of this title.

(h) The administration, by regulation, order,
permit, or otherwise, may require the owner or operator
of any source of a discharge of pollutants or of "any
source which is an industrial user of a publicly owned
treatment works to:

(1)  Establish and maintain records;

(2)  Make reports;

(3)  Install, calibrate, use and maintain monitoring
equipment or methods (including where appropriate,
biological monitoring methods) ;

(4)   Sample discharges (in accordance with the
methods, at the locations, at intervals, and in the
manner the administration prescribes); and