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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 240

any additional rule or regulation relating to construction
of wells. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shall
adopt regulations on the construction of wells. The
regulations shall be effective January 1, 1979..... Also, the
provisions of Part II of this subtitle do not limit the
powers of any State unit having jurisdiction of and
supervision over the public and potable water supplies of
the State. The rules and regulations adopted may recognize
a variation in the primary use or construction of wells, and
of the materials penetrated in different localities.

(b) Any rule or regulation proposed by the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene with respect to the
construction of wells shall be. submitted to the Board for
comment before adoption.]

SUPPLEMENTAL REVISOR'S NOTE: Ch. ___, Acts of 1982,

which enacted the Health - Environmental Article,
also amended this section to delete all but the
first sentence. The substance of the", deleted
language .now appears in, the Health
Environmental Article.

8-1401.

[(a)] (a) In this subtitle, [the the following words
have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Discharge"] "DISCHARGE" means the addition,

introduction, leaking, spilling, or emitting any pollutant

to State waters or the placing of any pollutant in a
location where it is likely to pollute.

[(c) "Disposal system" means a system for disposing of
wastes, either by surface, above surface or underground
methods, and includes treatment works, disposal wells, and
other systems.

(d)  "Effluent limitations" means any restrictions or
prohibitions established under State or federal law
including but not limited to parameters for toxic and
nontoxic discharges, standards of performance for new
sources, or ocean discharge criteria. The restrictions or
prohibitions shall specify quantities, rates, and
concentrations of chemical, physical, biological, and other
constituents which are discharged into State waters.

(e)  "Industrial user" means any person engaged in the
manufacture, fabrication, assemblage and such other classes
of significant producers of pollutants identified under
regulations of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene or
the Administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency. Agency. ]

(f) [(f)] (C) "National pollutant discharge