Ch. 537                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND

General Assembly on the first day of the 1990 Session.
Notwithstanding § 10-117 of the State Government Article, the
regulations may not take effect until March 15, 1990.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That a person who has
applied to the Army Corps of Engineers by December 31, 1990 for a
permit under § 404 of the federal Clean Water Act and is
ultimately issued a permit may not be required to obtain a permit
under the provisions of this Act provided the applicant does not
alter the scope of the regulated activity originally applied for
in the application.

SECTION 3. 5. 7. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1989, , contingent upon the Department of
Natural Resources notifying the Legislative Policy Committee that
the Department has prepared and adopted maps of the extent of
nontidal wetlands in every county of the State.

Approved May 25, 1989.

CHAPTER 537

(House Bill 536)

AN ACT concerning

Infectious Waste - Penalties for Disposal

FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain health care facilities
from disposing or causing the disposal of infectious waste
in a landfill system in this State; deleting a certain
definition; altering a definition; repealing certain
penalties for the certain disposal of infectious waste; and
providing that violations of the statute prohibiting the
disposal of infectious waste in a landfill system in this
State are liable for certain penalties under the controlled
Hazardous Substance Act; and generally relating to penalties
for the disposal of infectious waste.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Environment

Section 9-227 and 9-267

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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