CHAPTER 519
(Senate Bill 91)

AN ACT concerning

Department of the Environment - Location of Meetings and Hearings

FOR the purpose of requiring that certain meetings and hearings relating to certain
permits issued by the Department of the Environment be located in a certain
location; and generally relating to the location of meetings and hearings held by
the Department of the Environment.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Environment
Section 1-601

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Environment

1-601.

(a) Permits issued by the Department under the following sections shall be
issued in accordance with this subtitle:

(1) Air quality control permits to construct subject to § 2-404 of this

article;

(2) Permits to install, materially alter or materially extend landfill
systems, incinerators for public use or rubble landfills subject to § 9-209 of this
article;

(3) Permits to discharge pollutants to waters of the State issued
pursuant to § 9-323 of this article;

(4) Permits to install, materially alter or materially extend a structure
used for storage or distribution of any type of sewage sludge issued, renewed, or
amended pursuant to § 9-234.1 or § 9-238 of this article;

(5) Permits to own, operate, establish or maintain a controlled
hazardous substance facility issued pursuant to § 7-232 of this article;

(6) Permits to own, operate, or maintain a hazardous material facility
issued pursuant to § 7-103 of this article; and

(7) Permits to own, operate, establish or maintain a low-level nuclear
waste facility issued pursuant to § 7-233 of this article.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the