The Department may issue a Sewage Sludge Utilization Permit for an innovative project to utilize sewage sludge in deep rows, brickmaking, resource recovery projects, as fuel, and in other projects, if the sewage sludge is utilized in a manner that will not cause an undue risk to the environment or public health, safety, or welfare as may be determined by the Department.

Authority: Environment Article, Title 1, Subtitle 6, and Title 9, Subtitle 2, Part III, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: August 4, 1976 (3:16 Md. R. 852)

Regulations .01—.06 amended effective August 3, 1981 (8:15 Md. R. 1307)

Chapter, Uses and Methods of Collection, Handling, Burning, Storage, Transportation, Processing or Distribution of Sewage Sludge, Processed Sludge, or Any Other Product Containing These Materials, repealed effective November 3, 1986 (13:22 Md. R. 2399)

Annotation: COMAR 10.17.10 cited in Attorney General Opinion No. 84-005 (January 31, 1984)

Regulations .01—.14, Sewage Sludge Management, adopted effective November 3, 1986 (13:22 Md. R. 2399)

Chapter recodified from COMAR 10.17.10 to COMAR 26.04.06

Regulation .01 amended effective December 10, 1990 (17:24 Md. R. 2837)

Regulation .02B amended effective December 10, 1990 (17:24 Md. R. 2837)

Regulation .03A amended effective December 10, 1990 (17:24 Md. R. 2837)

Regulation .04C amended effective December 10, 1990 (17:24 Md. R. 2837)

Regulation .09 amended effective December 11, 1989 (16:24 Md. R. 2621)

Regulation .09A amended effective April 25, 1994 (21:8 Md. R. 675); August 15, 1994 (21:16 Md. R. 1391); May 15, 2000 (27:9 Md. R. 859)

Regulation .13A amended effective December 10, 1990 (17:24 Md. R. 2837)

Regulation .13E amended effective December 10, 1990 (17:24 Md. R. 2837); September 27, 1993 (20:19 Md. R. 1472)

Regulation .13F adopted effective December 11, 1989 (16:24 Md. R. 2621)

Regulation .15 adopted effective December 10, 1990 (17:24 Md. R. 2837)

Regulations .01—.15 repealed and new Regulations .01—.75 adopted effective May 26, 2014 (41:10 Md. R. 562)