WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 815

shall be included in the charges apportioned to the service
district.

(i) The Service shall review, update, and readopt the
five-year plan for each service region biennially after review by
the municipalities and persons concerned. The five-year plan may
be updated and readopted by the Service only after at least one
public hearing in each of the counties affected. Upon updating
and readopting, the Service shall take the actions necessary to
implement the revised plan.

(j) The Service by formal action, and after consultation
with the municipalities affected, may extend the boundaries of
service regions or districts, combine two or more service regions
or districts or parts thereof and combine, abandon, extend,
enlarge, improve, or make any other modification of projects
serving one or more service districts, but no change may diminish
any existing level of service rendered to the district or
districts concerned.

(k) Within a wastewater purification service district, the
Service is responsible for the purification and disposal of
liquid waste as set forth in the five-year plan, including the
residue resulting from purification, that is delivered to the
service projects through the sewer pipes of any municipality or
person in the service district, except that the Service may
exclude or require preconditioning of any waste that might
otherwise be harmful to structures or purification processes or
endanger the health or safety of workers. Within the service
district no municipality or person may discharge liquid waste
onto the surface of the ground or into the waterways of the State
except through the projects of the Service or of a municipality
or person designated by the plan or under reasonable conditions
the Service stipulates.

(1) Within a solid waste disposal service district the
Service is responsible for the disposal of solid wastes as set
forth in the five-year plan. Within the service district no
municipality or person may dispose of solid wastes except through
the projects of the Service or of a municipality or person
designated by the plan, or under reasonable conditions the
Service stipulates.

(m) Within a water supply service district, the Service
shall be responsible for supply and distribution of water as set
forth in the five-year plan.

(N) WITH THE CONSENT OF THE COUNTY OR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
IN WHICH A PROJECT IS TO BE LOCATED, THE SERVICE MAY IMPLEMENT A
PROJECT EVEN IF IT IS INCONSISTENT WITH, OR NOT PROVIDED FOR IN,
AN EXISTING PLAN THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN ADOPTED UNDER THIS SUBTITLE,
SERVICE REGION, OR SERVICE DISTRICT ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS

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