HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     3797

Approved May 29, 1984.

CHAPTER 798

(House Bill 976)

AN ACT concerning

Environmental Protection - Chesapeake Bay - Water
Pollution Control

FOR the purpose of strengthening certain State programs intended
to prevent, abate, and control pollution of the Chesapeake
Bay and other waters of the State by prohibiting an
industrial user from introducing a pollutant into a publicly
owned treatment works or into any conveyance leading to a
publicly owned treatment works except in compliance with any
pretreatment requirements and authorizing certain
inspections and programs relating to those requirements, by
authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to
commence an action for injunctive relief under certain
circumstances, by requiring the adoption of certain
financial management plans prior to the issuance of a
construction permit for a community or multi-use sewerage
system, by specifying that county plans required under Title
9, Subtitle 5 of the Health - Environmental Article shall be
consistent with certain other plans and shall treat each
publicly owned community sewerage system in a certain way
for fiscal purposes by a certain date, by requiring
documentation in the county plan of certain water
conservation efforts, by requiring declorination when
chlorine or chlorine compounds are used in treatment of
wastewaters discharged by certain facilities in the waters
of the State, by authorizing the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene to set discharge permit fees, including
application fees, in an amount designed to cover certain
costs and allowing those fees to be placed in a special fund
along with certain other moneys to be used for certain
purposes related to water pollution control of the
Chesapeake Bay and other waters of the State, by requiring
compliance with certain State laws and regulations prior to
issuance of a discharge permit; and generally relating to
State water pollution control planning and regulatory
programs.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - Environmental

Section 9-222(c), 9-319(a)(9), 9-325, 9-327, 9-328(b),

9-329, and 9-505(a)(l)
Annotated Code of Maryland