PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 224

(3) Review proposed changes to the surface coal mining laws and
regulations to provide comments to the General Assembly and the Department;

(4) Review the Department's administration of the surface coal mining
regulatory program and the abandoned coal mine reclamation program to determine
compliance with the purpose of the subtitles;

(5) Enter on any surface coal mining operation to determine mining and
reclamation conditions; and

(6) Recommend research, demonstration, and cost-sharing projects to
promote optimum revegetation of surface coal mined lands.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved April 29, 1997.

CHAPTER 224
(House Bill 246)

AN ACT concerning

Landfills - Standards - Requirements for Security

FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of the Environment to adopt
regulations governing financial assurance for sanitary landfills that accept municipal
solid waste and landfills that accept rubble; requiring that the regulations for
financial assurance be consistent with and not exceed certain federal regulations;
providing for the effective date and termination of certain regulations; requiring an
applicant for a permit for a sanitary landfill that accepts municipal solid waste and
a landfill that accepts construction and demolition waste to provide proof of
financial assurance in accordance with regulations adopted by the Department; and
generally relating to landfill systems.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Environment
Section 9-211(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Environment

Section 9-211.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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