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LAWS OF MARYLAND

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local master plan; and (C) the Department of Agriculture for
comment on the impact of water and sewerage service and
solid waste facilities on productive or potentially
productive agricultural land.

(ix) Authorize the Department to approve
or disapprove county plans submitted in accordance with this
section. The Department may approve a county plan in part,
provided that the part approved includes all of the required
elements for such plan. When a county plan is disapproved
in whole or in part, the Department shall notify the county
in writing, setting forth the reasons for such disapproval.

2. The governing body of the county, within
six months from the notification of a disapproval, shall
have the right to appeal the action of the Department to the
State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene for reconsideration
in accordance with the regulations adopted under this
section.

3. The Department may conduct studies,
surveys, investigations, research, and analyses to
accomplish the purposes of this subsection.

4.    The cost of preparing county plans and
revisions or amendments thereto may be financed in part, as
provided in subsection (a) 1 of § 387B.

5.    Notwithstanding any provision of this
subtitle, the Department shall have the authority to
determine the location of any sewerage treatment facility
discharge point included in the county plan required by this
section.

(d) 1. Within 90 days after the submission of a county
plan, amendment, or revision thereof, the Department shall
approve or disapprove that county plan, amendment, or
revision thereof. Any county plan, amendment, or revision
thereof which has been submitted in accordance with this
section and which has not been disapproved by the Department
within the time required by this subsection shall be deemed
to be approved. The Department, for good cause or because
of extenuating circumstances, may extend the review period
for an additional 90 days after notice to the county has
been given. However, a county may proceed at its own risk
to implement a plan, amendment, or revision thereof,
immediately upon approval by that county.

2. The county plan, amendment, or revision
thereof shall become effective immediately upon approval by
the approving authority subject to revision or other
appropriate action by the Secretary and no community water
supply, sewerage or solid waste disposal system, or multiuse
water supply and sewerage disposal system, or individual
water supply or individual sewerage system or solid waste
acceptance facility may be installed or extended in any
geographic area to which said county plan, amendment, or