1906                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 203

Article - Health - Environmental
Section 7-220(b)(5) and 7-221(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - Environmental

7-220.

(b) There shall be a separate account within the State
Hazardous Substance Control Fund of moneys made available under
loan authorizations or by funds appropriated in the State budget
for:

(2)  All cost incurred by the State in monitoring and
assessing the effect on public health and natural resources of
any site at which a controlled hazardous substance is or may be
present, including [but not limited to] the costs of any
subsurface borings and any analysis of samples taken, [and] the
costs of investigations conducted for the purpose of defining
necessary remedial action, AND THE COSTS OF LITIGATION EXPENSES
INCURRED IN OBTAINING REIMBURSEMENT FOR EXPENDITURES;

(3)  The State share mandated under § 104(c)(3) of the
federal act; [and]

(4)  All cost incurred in providing public information
concerning a site that does or may contain a controlled hazardous
substance; AND

(5)  COSTS RESULTING FROM RELEASES OR THREATENED
RELEASES OF CONTROLLED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WHETHER OR NOT THE
CONTROLLED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE WAS PLACED AT THE SITE, RELEASED,
OR THREATENED TO BE RELEASED BEFORE JULY 1, 1985.

7-221.

(a) All expenditures from the State Hazardous Substance
Control Fund made by the Department under § 7-220(1), (2), (3),
[and] (4), AND (5) of this subtitle in response to a release OR A
THREATENED RELEASE of a controlled hazardous substance at a
particular site shall be reimbursed to the Department for the
State Hazardous Substance Control Fund by the person responsible
for the release or threatened release.

(C) THE DEPARTMENT MAY RECOVER COSTS FOR THE FUND RESULTING
FROM RELEASES OR THREATENED RELEASES OF CONTROLLED HAZARDOUS
SUBSTANCES WHETHER OR NOT THE CONTROLLED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE WAS
PLACED AT THE SITE, RELEASED, OR THREATENED TO BE RELEASED BEFORE
JULY 1, 1985.