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2. Implementation of any program established by the service as a
part of a scrap tire recycling system; and

3. Assisting in funding the establishment of a private or public
scrap tire collection, processing, or recycling facility.

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

Article — Environment

9-228.

(b) A person may not store scrap-tires in the State unless the person demonstrates
to the satisfaction of the Department that, within 90 days of the time that the person
stores the scrap tires, the scrap tires will be:

(1) Returned to the marketplace;

(2) Used as fuel in an approved resource recovery incinerator;

(3) Used as a tire derived fuel in an approved facility; or

(4) Transferred, by means of a scrap-tire hauler, to any facility within the
scrap-tire recycling system established under subsection (c) of this section.

(c) (1) The service shall establish a scrap tire recycling [system that includes
scrap tire collection facilities, scrap tire haulers, and in the following order of priority:

(i) Scrap tire recyclers; and

(ii) 1. An approved resource recovery facility that uses tires as a

fuel substitute; or

2. An approved facility that uses tires as a tire derived
fuel] SYSTEM.

(2) A person may not incinerate tires except in:

(i) An approved resource recovery facility that uses tires as a fuel
substitute; or

(ii) An approved facility that uses tires as a tire derived fuel:

(3) A facility that processes scrap tires for use as a fuel in an incinerator,
boiler, or resource recovery facility or a facility that burns or incinerates scrap tires may
not be approved or licensed under this subtitle, unless:

(i) There is no reasonable and economically-available opportunity to
process the tires and return them to the marketplace for reuse; and

(ii) The] THE burning or incineration meets all federal and State air
quality standards.

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