Maryland Department of the Environment

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 Adopted Land Regulations

Up to Date as of June 5, 2025.​ 

List of Final Actions 

The Secretary of the Department can adopt a regulation upon expiration of the 45th day after it is proposed in the Maryland Reg​ister.

After a regulation is adopted, a Notice of Final Action is published in the Maryl​and Register​.  If any non-substantive changes are made to a regulation from the original proposed text, the Notice of Final Action shows the changes with explanation for the changes.  The Final Action also specifies the date on which the adopted regulations ​will go into effect.  

Click here to see a full list of Code of Maryland Regulations (Title 26 - Department of Environment).

Adopted Land Regulations listed are those adopted within the last 3 years.

Regulation TitleFood Residuals - Organics Recycling and Waste Diversion
PurposeTo implement House Bill 264/Senate Bill 483 of 2021 entitled Solid Waste Management – Organics Recycling and Waste Diversion – Food Residuals. This law requires certain persons who generate, beginning January 1, 2023, certain qualities of food residuals to separate their food residuals from other solid waste, and divert those food residuals from final disposal in a refuse disposal system through reduction, reuse, and recycling.
COMAR26.04.13.01 - .05
Effective Date12/26/2022
Regulation TitleOil Pollution Control and Storage Tank Management
Purpose
Comprehensively modernizes Maryland’s oil pollution control and storage tank management regulations by:
1) Incorporating U.S. EPA’s underground oil and hazardous substance storage tank system requirements into state regulations;
2) Establishing new requirements for registering, constructing, and operating aboveground oil storage tank systems;
3) Revising the reimbursement limits for certain homeowners under the Residential Heating Oil Tank Site Rehabilitation Reimbursement Program; and
4) Establishing new regulations for high risk oil storage facilities that dispense motor fuel, marina motor fuel dispensing facilities, and the transportation and storage of heating oil.
COMAR26.10.01 - 26.10.18
Effective Date6/13/2022
Number of Adopted Land Regulations: 2

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Contact Information

For more information please email the Solid Waste Program.​​​​

Maryland Department of the Environment
1800 Washington Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21230