HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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elimination system" means the national system for the
issuance of permits as designated by the 1972 amendments to
Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

(g) [(g)] (D) "Permit" means a permit to discharge
pollutants into waters of the State issued under this
subtitle.

(h) [(h) (E) "Pollutant" means any wastes or
wastewaters discharged from any publicly owned treatment
works or industrial source and all other liquid, gaseous,
solid or other substances which will pollute any waters of
the State.

(i) [(i) "Publicly owned treatment works" means any
facility for the treatment of pollutants owned by the State
or any political subdivision, municipality, or other public
entity.

(j) "Schedule of compliance" means a schedule of
remedial measures including ah enforceable sequence of
actions or operations leading to compliance with the
effluent limitation or water quality standard as specified
by an order or permit requirement of the administration.

(k) "Water quality criteria" means any criteria
describing the required quality of State waters adopted
under State and federal law.

(1) "Water quality standards" means any water quality
standards adopted and effective under State and federal
law.]

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

which enacted the Health - Environmental Article,
also amended this section. The substance of
former subsections (c), (d), (e), (i), and (1) of
this section now appears in Title 9 of the Health
Environmental Article. Former subsections (j)
and (k) of this section are deleted because they
do not appear in any other section of this
subtitle.

8-1402.

Because the quality of the waters of this State is
vital to the public and private interests of its citizens
and because pollution constitutes a menace to public health
and welfare, creates public nuisances, is harmful to
wildlife, fish and aquatic life, and impairs domestic,
agricultural, industrial, recreational, and other legitimate
beneficial uses of water, and the problem of water pollution
in this State is closely related to the problem of water
pollution in adjoining states, it is State public policy to
improve, conserve, and manage the quality of the waters of