HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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revision thereof relates, unless it is in accordance
therewith. In Baltimore County, exceptions allowing the
installation of individual water supplies or individual
sewerage systems to serve an individual residence, may be
granted by the approving authority upon approval of the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, provided the
Secretary finds that such exception is justified and
necessary to alleviate extreme hardship.

3.    No State or local authority empowered to
grant building permits or to approve subdivision plans,
maps, or plats, shall grant any such permit or record or
approve any such plan, map, or plat which provides for
individual or community water supply or sewerage systems, or
for solid waste acceptance facilities, unless such systems
or facilities are found to be in conformance with the county
plan, amendments, or revisions thereof. This means that:

(i) No building permit shall be approved

(1)  where existing facilities are inadequate to serve the
proposed development, taking into consideration all other
existing and approved developments in the service area, or

(2)  which will cause facilities for conveyance, pumping,
storage or treatment of water, sewage or solid waste to be
overloaded.

(ii) No subdivision plat shall be approved
in areas where, taking into account all existing and
approved subdivision plats and building permits in the
service area, facilities for conveyance, pumping, storage,
or treatment of water, sewage, and solid waste to serve the
proposed development would either (1) not be completed in
time to serve the development, or (2) if completed, would
not be adequate to serve the development without causing
overloading of the facilities.

4.    Applicants for building permits, or
subdivision approvals, or community water supply or sewerage
systems construction approval or solid waste acceptance
facility construction approval, shall submit to the
approving authority such information in such form as may be
reasonably necessary and required, to show compliance with
paragraph 3 of this subsection.

5.     County plans shall be reviewed by the
governing body of the county at least [annually] ONCE EVERY
3 2 YEARS PURSUANT TO A SCHEDULE ADOPTED BY THE DEPARTMENT
EXCEPT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY, AND PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY,
WHERE COUNTY PLANS SHALL BE REVIEWED BY THE GOVERNING BODY

OF THE COUNTY AT LEAST ANNUALLY. and a A report of the

review together with amendments thereto or revisions thereof
to cover the succeeding ten—year period as adopted by the
governing body, shall be submitted to the Department. If
the Secretary determines that a county has failed to submit
timely and adequate annual reports, amendments or revisions,
the Secretary shall advise the county, in writing, of the
specific failures or inadequacies in the county's