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| Program | Oil Control Program | | Regulation Title | Oil Pollution and Tank Management | | Purpose | Revising the Department regulations related to underground storage tanks (USTs) to comply with current federal UST regulations, to remove obsolete language, and update current practices. | | COMAR | 26.10.02 through .12, 26.10.16 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | October 13, 2018 is the federal deadline to apply for State Program Approval. Regulations need to be in place as part of the application process. | | Target Effective Date | October, 2020 | | Status | Draft being developed. |
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| Program | Solid Waste Program | | Regulation Title | Solid Waste Management
| | Purpose | A review of the Department’s solid waste management regulations, pursuant to State Government Article, §§10-130—10-139, revealed the need to update these regulations due to changes in various statutes and cited regulations, and the Department's desire to incorporate some elements of 40 CFR Part 258, the federal regulations governing municipal solid waste landfills.
| | COMAR | 26.04.07 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | July 1, 2022 | | Status | The Land Management Administration is in the process of inventorying and evaluating the needed changes. We will be assembling a workgroup to explore proposed areas of regulatory change and to help develop regulatory language. The changes are needed to bring the state's regulations into conformance with federal regulations regarding municipal waste landfills that have been in effect since 1991 and to include state statutory changes that have taken place over the last 20 years. |
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| Program | Lead Poisoning Prevention Program | | Regulation Title | Blood Lead Reporting | | Purpose | To update the blood lead level test reporting requirements. These updates are necessary to comply with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s state program reporting requirements and to facilitate the new childhood lead poisoning case management requirements enacted under the Maryland Healthy Children Act of 2019 (Ch. 341). | | COMAR | 26.02.01 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | July, 2020 | | Status | Drafting proposal. |
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| Program | Solid Waste Program | | Regulation Title | Beneficial Use of Coal Combustion Byproducts (New Chapter)
| | Purpose | These regulations are being developed to address the use and recycling of coal combustion byproducts.
| | COMAR | 26.04.13 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | May, 2022 | | Status | Proposed regulations were published in the Maryland Register on February 26, 2010. The period in which to adopt those proposed regulations has expired. A new proposal is being developed but is delayed pending the promulgation of revisions to existing management of coal combustion byproducts regulations at COMAR 26.04.10, which is currently in process. |
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| Program | Resource Management Program | | Regulation Title | Hazardous Waste Land Disposal Restrictions
| | Purpose | Incorporates Federal land disposal restrictions program for hazardous waste into State regulations. EPA is implementing their own rules.
| | COMAR | 26.13.09 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | July, 2021 | | Status | Drafting proposal.
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| Program | Resource Management Program | | Regulation Title | Mixed Waste Rulemaking
| | Purpose | Conditionally exempts mixed waste (waste that is regulated as hazardous waste and is also radioactive) from most hazardous waste regulations provided it is managed in accordance with Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations.
| | COMAR | 26.13.10 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | July, 2021 | | Status | Drafting proposal.
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| Program | Lead Poisoning Prevention Program | | Regulation Title | Procedures for Abating Lead Containing Substances from Buildings; Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing; and Procedures for Performing Lead Abatement Services | | Purpose | Revising several regulations related to lead-contaminated dust and clearance testing for a lead abatement project and risk reduction standards. These revisions would also clarify that inspections performed as part of a child lead-poisoned investigation must be performed in accordance with the new environmental investigation regulations (see COMAR 26.16.08). | | COMAR | 26.02.07, 26.16.01 and .02, 26.16.05 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | July, 2020 | | Status | Drafting proposal. |
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| Program | Resource Management Program | | Regulation Title | Hazardous Waste Identification Rule – Contaminated Media and Debris
| | Purpose | Establishes a Department approved remedial action plan as a form of permit when operations involved in cleaning up a contaminated site would otherwise trigger permit requirements for hazardous waste treatment or disposal.
| | COMAR | 26.13.02, 26.13.05, 26.13.06, 26.13.07 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | July, 2021 | | Status | Drafting proposal.
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| Program | Resource Management Program | | Regulation Title | Storage, Collection, Transferring, Hauling, Recycling, and Processing of Scrap Tires
| | Purpose | To update and modernize the existing regulations on scrap tire management in the state. Revisions to these regulations will include changes to the terms for scrap tire licenses and approvals, updates to the scrap tire licenses and approvals application requirements, creation of a scrap tire hauler exemption, reduced reporting requirements, and other clarifying and formatting changes. | | COMAR | 26.04.08 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | Fall, 2020 | | Status | Drafting proposal |
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| Program | Oil Control Program | | Regulation Title | Oil Pollution
| | Purpose | Revising the chapter to move requirements for aboveground storage tanks (AST) into two new chapters (see 26.10.17 and 26.10.18), and to make other necessary improvements.
| | COMAR | 26.10.01 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | October, 2020 | | Status | Draft being developed.
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| Program | Oil Control Program | | Regulation Title | Management of Used Oil
| | Purpose | Adopts federal regulations and adds requirements for spill reporting, permits, annual reports, closure and burning used oil.
| | COMAR | 26.10.15 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | October, 2020 | | Status | Draft being developed.
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| Program | Oil Control Program | | Regulation Title | Field-Erected and Shop-Fabricated Aboveground Storage Tanks (New Chapters)
| | Purpose | To establish aboveground storage tank requirements for construction, performance, inspections, registration, and record keeping.
| | COMAR | 26.10.17, 26.10.18 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | October, 2020 | | Status | Draft being developed. |
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| Program | Lead Poisoning Prevention Program | | Regulation Title | Environmental Investigations (New Chapter) | | Purpose | As required under the Maryland Healthy Children Act of 2019 (Ch. 341), to develop regulations for the performance of environmental investigations that are consistent with, or more stringent than, the Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead–Based Paint Hazards in Housing published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. These regulations will be adopted under a new chapter. | | COMAR | 26.16.08 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | July 1, 2020 | | Target Effective Date | July, 2020 | | Status | Drafting proposal. |
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| Program | Solid Waste Program | | Regulation Title | Recycling Facilities (New Chapter) | | Purpose | As required under Ch. 376 of 2017, to develop regulations for recycling facilities that clarify when a refuse disposal permit is or is not required, exempt certain materials managed at a recycling facility from being designated as solid waste, and to establish other requirements and approvals for recycling facilities. These regulations will be adopted under a new chapter. | | COMAR | 26.04.12 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | January, 2021 | | Status | The meetings of the Solid Waste and Recycling Facilities Workgroup have concluded, which consisted of affected stakeholders consulted in the development of the regulations. The proposal is being drafted. |
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| Program | Solid Waste Program | | Regulation Title | Management of Coal Combustion Byproducts
| | Purpose | To make the changes needed to the existing regulations governing coal combustion byproducts (or coal ash), due to the promulgation of federal regulations governing coal combustion residuals disposal that became effective in October 2015.
| | COMAR | 26.04.10 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | Federal regulations encourage incorporation within 18 months of October 19, 2015. However, the U.S. EPA is proposing and adopting revisions to the 2015 federal coal combustion residuals disposal regulations. | | Target Effective Date | January, 2021 | | Status | Drafting proposal. |
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| Program | Resource Management Program | | Regulation Title | Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule | | Purpose | Incorporate into the Code of Maryland Regulations changes made to federal regulations applicable to persons who generate hazardous waste. | | COMAR | 26.13.03 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | None | | Target Effective Date | January, 2021 | | Status | Drafting proposal. |
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| Program | Mining Program | | Regulation Title | Surface Mining | | Purpose | To revise and update MDE's regulations related to surface mining. | | COMAR | 26.21.01 | | Relevant Statutory Deadline | | | Target Effective Date | October, 2021 | | Status | Drafting proposal. |
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| Number of Land Regulations in Development: 17 |