HARRY HUGHES, Governor                              1311

CHAPTER 393

(House Bill 483)

AN ACT concerning

State Water Quality Laboratory Certification Act

FOR the purpose of establishing the State Water Quality
Laboratory Certification Act; requiring the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt rules and
regulations to carry out the provisions of this
section; requiring certification of certain
laboratories after a certain date; providing for
application, issuance, renewal and disciplinary action
relating to certifications required by this Act;
establishing certain fees and exempting local
governments from the payment of fees; prohibiting
certain acts; and imposing certain criminal penalties.

BY adding to

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Section 34A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

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34A.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(2)  "PERSON" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL, CORPORATION,
COMPANY, ASSOCIATION, PARTNERSHIP, STATE, COUNTY, MUNICIPAL
CORPORATION, FEDERAL AGENCY, SPECIAL TAXING AREA OR ANY
OTHER ENTITY.

(3)  "WATER QUALITY LABORATORY" MEANS ANY PERSON
WHO, BY ANY METHOD, EXAMINES A PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SYSTEM
AS DEFINED IN THE NATIONAL SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT OF 1974,
AS AMENDED, TO DETERMINE ITS COMPLIANCE WITH OR PRODUCES
LABORATORY DATA FOR ENFORCEMENT OF:

OR

(I) THE NATIONAL SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT;