WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

S.B. 851

Article - Environment

Section 1-406

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Environment

Section 7-401(e) and (f), 7-405(d), 7-406(b) and (j), 7-407, 7-409(a) and (d), and
7-411(b) and (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

(As enacted by Section 1 of this Act)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 3-701 through 3-713, respectively, and the subtitle
"Subtitle 7. Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Program", of Article - Natural Resources of
the Annotated Code of Maryland be transferred to be Section(s) 7-401 through 7-413,
respectively, to be under the amended subtitle "Subtitle 4. Hazardous Waste Facility
Siting Program", of Article - Environment of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

Article - Environment

1-406.

The following units, among other units, are included in the Department:

(1)     Air Quality Control Advisory Council;

(2)     Environmental Noise Advisory Council;

(3)     Hazardous Substances Advisory Council;

(4)     Radiation Control Advisory Board;

(5)     Science and Health Advisory Group;

(6)     Board of Environmental Sanitarians;

(7)     Board of Waterworks and Waste System Operators; [and]

(8)     Board of Well Drillers; AND

(9)      HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITIES SITING BOARD.

7-401.

(e) "Hazardous waste" means any waste substance or material designated as a
hazardous substance pursuant to § 7-208 of [the Environment Article] THIS ARTICLE.

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