WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 753

CHAPTER 753

(House Bill 1458)

AN ACT concerning                                                             

Sewage Sludge - Permit to Store - Notice
and Public Hearing

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of the Environment to
hold a public hearing within a certain time after the
receipt of any on an application for a, amendment, or
renewal of a permit to install, materially alter, "or"
materially extend a structure to store sewage sludge;

requiring the Department to publish notice of the

application and certain information regarding the public
hearing, and to mail copies of the published notice to
certain persons; providing for the location of the public
hearing; establishing certain penalties in the event of any

noncompliance with certain notice and public hearing

requirements; providing a right of appeal to the local Board
of Zoning Appeals to any person aggrieved by a Department
decision regarding the storage of sewage sludge; providing
for the holding or consolidation of public hearings;
prohibiting the Department of the Environment from renewing
certain sewage sludge permits unless a public hearing is
held; providing for the scope and application of this Act;
making this Act an emergency measure; and generally relating
to an application for a permit to store sewage sludge.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Environment

Section 9-234 and 9-238

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Environment

Section 9-234.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

Article - Environment

9-234.

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