Md. Code, Environment § 9-331
This is the official text of Md. Code, Environment § 9-331, part of Maryland’s Code, Environment — governs environmental protection.
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§9–331.
Official statutory text
By rule, regulation, order, permit, or otherwise, the Department may require the owner or operator of any source of a discharge of pollutants or of any source that is an industrial user of a publicly owned treatment works:
(1) To keep records;
(2) To make reports;
(3) To install, calibrate, use, and maintain monitoring equipment or methods, including, where appropriate, biological monitoring methods;
(4) To sample discharges in accordance with the methods, at the locations, at the intervals, and in the manner the Department requires; and
(5) To provide to the Department any information that the Department reasonably requires about:
(i) Discharge of pollutants into the waters of this State; or
(ii) Introduction of pollutants into publicly owned treatment works.
(1) To keep records;
(2) To make reports;
(3) To install, calibrate, use, and maintain monitoring equipment or methods, including, where appropriate, biological monitoring methods;
(4) To sample discharges in accordance with the methods, at the locations, at the intervals, and in the manner the Department requires; and
(5) To provide to the Department any information that the Department reasonably requires about:
(i) Discharge of pollutants into the waters of this State; or
(ii) Introduction of pollutants into publicly owned treatment works.
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