WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor  Ch. 306

that are applicable to the generation, transport, and disposal of
hazardous waste.

3-903.

(n) (1) Upon designation of the Northeast Maryland waste
disposal region as a service region, the Authority, and not the
Maryland Environmental Service, shall prepare the five-year plan
providing for solid waste disposal projects required in Section
3-106 of this title, and provide for its adoption, approval and
implementation in accordance with the provisions of that section.
The acquisition or purchase of any waste disposal facility as a
project which is in existence as of July 1, 1980, if it is to be
acquired or purchased, shall be included in the five-year plan of
the Authority as approved by each county under the provisions of
Section 3-106 of this title, as amended from time to time.

(2) The five-year plan may include provisions for the
establishment and implementation of a regional system of service
fees to be charged at public waste disposal facilities within the
participating jurisdictions. The Authority, by agreement with a
subdivision or person outside the boundaries of the service
region, may establish various service fees for the disposal of
waste generated within the service region consistent with the
5-year plan. The Secretary of [Health and Mental Hygiene] THE
ENVIRONMENT shall supervise any pricing structure proposed for
adoption in the five-year plan or subsequent amendments thereto,
for reasonableness and consistency with county solid waste plans
pursuant to Title 9 of the [Health - Environmental] ENVIRONMENT
Article.

(o) Upon adoption by the Authority of a five-year plan
providing for solid waste disposal projects and approval of such
plan by the affected county or counties or the General Assembly,
as the case may be, service districts shall be established within
the Northeast Maryland waste disposal region in the manner and
following the schedule set forth in the five-year plan providing
for solid waste disposal projects. Within each service district
in the Northeast Maryland waste disposal region, the Authority,
and not the Maryland Environmental Service, is responsible for
the disposal of solid wastes (including any wastewater treatment
residue) as set forth in the five-year plan providing for solid
waste disposal projects. Within the service district, no
subdivision or person may dispose of solid wastes except through
projects of the Authority or of a subdivision or person
designated by the five-year plan or under reasonable conditions
the Authority stipulates; provided however, that it is not
intended by this section that the Authority, in the absence of an
agreement to do so, be required to assume responsibility over any
wastewater treatment activity or project or over any existing
solid waste activity or project of any person or subdivision.
Nothing contained in this subtitle shall affect the power of the
Secretary of [Health and Mental Hygiene] THE ENVIRONMENT, as set

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