ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 466

considered owners or operators of certain contaminated property under certain
circumstances; authorizing the Department of the Environment to impose a
lesser application fee on certain applications to the Voluntary Cleanup Program;
establishing a process for certain incomplete applications to the Program;
authorizing a certain determination by the Department to be transferred to a
subsequent purchaser under certain circumstances; requiring that a certain
determination that is conditioned on certain uses of the property or on
maintenance of certain conditions be recorded by the participant in the
appropriate land records; establishing the Environmental Restoration and
Development Task Force; specifying the membership and duties of the Task
Force; providing for the designation of the Task Force chairman; requiring the
Department of the Environment and the Department of Business and Economic
Development to provide certain staffing; prohibiting a Task Force member from
receiving certain compensation and authorizing the receipt of certain
reimbursement; requiring the Task Force to report to certain persons by a
certain date; altering a certain definition; providing for the termination of
certain provisions of this Act; and generally relating to environmental
restoration and development.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article — Environment
Section 7-201(a) and (x)(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Environment

Section 7-201(x)(7) and 7-506(f) and (g)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article — Environment

Section 7-201(k) and 7-506(a)(2), (b), and (d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

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

Article - Environment

7-201.

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

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