CHAPTER 611
(House Bill 165)

AN ACT concerning

Sewage Sludge Storage Facilities - Permit to Install, Alter, or Extend -

Issuance

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a
permit to install, materially alter, or materially extend a sewage sludge storage
facility until the facility meets certain zoning and land use requirements; and
generally relating to the issuance of a permit to install, materially alter, or
materially extend a sewage sludge storage facility.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Environment
Section 9-233

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

9-233.

The Department may not issue a permit to install, materially alter, or
materially extend a sewage sludge composting facility OR A SEWAGE SLUDGE
STORAGE FACILITY until:

(1) The sewage sludge composting facility OR SEWAGE SLUDGE STORAGE
FACILITY meets all zoning and land use requirements of the county where the sewage
sludge composting OR STORAGE facility is to be located; and

(2) [The] IN THE CASE OF A SEWAGE SLUDGE COMPOSTING FACILITY,
THE Department has a written statement that the board of county commissioners or
the county council of the county where the sewage sludge composting facility is to be
located does not oppose the issuance of the permit.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October July 1, 1999.