HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     3927

signed by me on May 29, 1984, accomplishes the same purpose.
Therefore, it is not necessary for me to sign Senate Bill 659.

Sincerely,
Harry Hughes
Governor

Senate Bill No. 659

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 creating the Maryland Clean Water Fund, 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,