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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 429

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394A.

(A) Before issuing a permit for a landfill refuse
disposal system OR SLUDGE COMPOSTING FACILITY under § 394,
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, the State
Department of Health AND MENTAL HYGIENE shall set a day for
a public hearing on the request. The applicant shall give
notice to the public of his application and of the hearing,
by publication once in each week for two successive weeks
prior to the hearing, in a regularly published newspaper of
general circulation in any city or county which the
Department of Health AND MENTAL HYGIENE determines may be
directly affected by the request. The board of county
commissioners or the county council of the APPROPRIATE
county, the mayor or other chief executive official of [each
such] THE APPROPRIATE municipal corporation, the Maryland

Geological Survey, and the [Department") DIVISION of Water

Resources shall be notified by the applicant by registered
or certified mail. The local officials shall notify all
interested agencies of their political subdivisions. In the
public notice of the application, the date, place and time
fixed by the Department of Health AND MENTAL HYGIENE for the
public hearing on the application shall be stated. At the
public hearing the applicant and any other interested person
shall be given an opportunity to present facts, evidence,
and arguments for or against the granting of the