HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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permits, including requiring submission of plans,
specifications, and other information necessary to carry out
the provisions of this title. The regulations shall include
provision for a reasonable application fee.

(f)  Same—Conditions. — Issuance of the permit may be
contingent upon conditions the [Administration] DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE deems necessary to prevent
violations of this title.

(g)  Same—Grant of right of entry for inspection.
Issuance of the permit is contingent upon the grant of a
right of entrance to the [Administration] DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE upon the permit site at any
reasonable time to inspect and investigate for actual or
potential violations of the conditions of the permit.
Failure to allow [Administration] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
MENTAL HYGIENE officials and employees to inspect the
proposed permit site is sufficient cause to withhold or
revoke the permit.

(h) Records and reports. — The [administration]
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, 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] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE
prescribes); and

(5)  Provide other information relating to
discharges of pollutants into the waters of the State or to
introductions of pollutants into publicly owned treatment
works as the [administration] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
MENTAL HYGIENE may reasonably require.

(i) Refusal of permit. — The [Administration]
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE may refuse to issue
a permit for the discharge of pollutants if it finds that
issuance of the permit would violate the provisions of any
federal law or rule or regulation promulgated thereunder.