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Ch. 409
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Sewage Sludge - Dumping in the Chesapeake Bay
FOR the purpose of prohibiting a person from dumping, depositing,
scattering, or releasing sewage sludge by certain means into
or onto certain areas of the Chesapeake Bay; defining
certain terms; revising a certain legislative purpose;
generally relating to dumping sewage sludge in the
Chesapeake Bay; and making this Act an emergency measure.
BY adding to
Article - Natural Resources
Section 8-1601(a)(5) and 8-1602(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1982 Supplement)
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BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 8-1601(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1982 Supplement)
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Natural Resources
8-1601.
(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings
indicated.
(5) (I) "SEWAGE SLUDGE" MEANS THE ACCUMULATED
SEMILIQUID SUSPENSION OF SETTLED SOLIDS, OR DRIED RESIDUE OF
THESE SOLIDS, THAT IS DEPOSITED FROM SEWAGE IN WASTEWATER
TREATMENT PLANT TANKS OR BASINS.
(II) "SEWAGE SLUDGE" INCLUDES THE RAW UNTREATED
SEWAGE DISPOSED FROM THE BACK RIVER SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT.
(b) The General Assembly declares that the Chesapeake Bay
and its tributaries (within the tidewater portions thereof) are a
great natural asset and resource to the State and its counties.
Portions of these areas are threatened with inundation by the
unconfined dumping of vast quantities of spoil from dredging
operations within Baltimore Harbor AND CERTAIN DUMPINGS OF SEWAGE
SLUDGE. This inundation and unconfined dumping will pollute and
despoil valuable portions of the bottomland in the Chesapeake Bay
and its tidewater tributaries and be grossly harmful to fish and
marine life in these and adjacent waters, to use for recreation,
and to the economic and social life of the people of this State.
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