Ch. 753                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND

(a)  [When] EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION
(F) OF THIS SECTION, WHEN the Department receives an application
for a permit to utilize sewage sludge at a site, the Department
immediately shall mail a copy of the permit application:

(1)  To the county and to any municipal corporation
where the sewage sludge utilization site is to be located; and

(2)  To any other county within 1 mile of the sewage
sludge utilization site.

(b)  [For] EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION
(F) OF THIS SECTION, FOR a permit to apply sewage sludge on
marginal land or to construct a permanent facility that is
designed primarily to utilize sewage sludge, the Department
shall:

(1)  Publish notice of the application in a local
newspaper having a substantial circulation in the county where
the sewage sludge is to be applied or the facility is to be
constructed;

(2)  Mail a copy of the notice to:

(i) The local health official;

(ii) The chairman of the legislative body and
any elected executive of the county where the sewage sludge is to
be applied or the facility is to be constructed;

(iii) The elected executive of any municipal
corporation where the sewage sludge is to be applied or the
facility is to be constructed; and

(iv) Any other county within 1 mile of where
the sewage sludge is to be applied or the facility is to be
constructed.

(c)  (1) [Within] EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION
(F) OF THIS SECTION § 9-234.1 OF THIS SUBTITLE, WITHIN 15 days
after receiving a copy of the permit application, the executive
or the legislative body of the county, or the executive or the
legislative body of the municipal corporation, where the sewage
sludge is to be applied or the facility is to be constructed may
request that the Department hold a public hearing.

(2)   If the Department receives a request under
paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Department shall hold a
public hearing in the affected subdivision in accordance with the
Administrative Procedure Act.

(3)  If the executives or legislative bodies of more
than 1 county or municipal corporation request a hearing under

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