Maryland compliance program

Inquiries are logged, investigated, and monitored to ensure resolution. The Office of MBE regularly schedules procurement outreach events to provide an opportunity for vendors to Gain an understanding of the purchasing process; Meet the County buyers and ask questions, Learn about bid opportunities with the County; Review a list of current contracts; Network with other vendors; Participate in other business workshops, seminars and conferences.

Outreach attendance is not required in order to participate in the Baltimore County procurement process. Comptroller of Maryland. All Rights Reserved. Maryland Taxes. The field sessions will be held in Parking Lot 3 same as previous years. There will be increased social distancing required and masks may be required on campus.

Registration is coordinated through the Community Colleges of Baltimore County. To register for this smoke school, call Additional Smoke Schools are available at other locations and on a different schedule than listed here.

An internet search of "Smoke Schools in Maryland" will give you information about other programs in the area. Click here for a summary about the permit requirements for Perc Dry Cleaning. Click to download and print the Dry Cleaner Calendar.

Dry Cleaner Compliance Calendar This includes apartment buildings which may have commercial businesses on the first floor.

Those commercial businesses can no longer include dry cleaners. The full CFR regulation can be found by following this link. Beginning with the emissions year, ARA is requiring that all Title V facilities report emissions of hazardous air pollutants HAPS from all registered equipment including fuel burning sources.

Links to recent reports available electronically may be found here. MDE also periodically announces enforcement actions on its Newsroom page. The Maryland Department of the Environment and its federal partners reached an agreement with Baltimore City to greatly reduce the amount of sewage that overflows in the City within less than four years. The agreement was approved by the U. District Court for the District of Maryland.

The agreement — a modification to the consent decree between the Department of the Environment, the U. Environmental Protection Agency and the U. The agreement notes that modeling shows more than 80 percent of sewage overflow volume will be addressed by projects to be completed by the start of To contact program management, the Central Division, or the Enforcement Division, please call the Baltimore office at For the Western Division offices in Frostburg call For the Western Division satellite office in Hagerstown, call To contact the Eastern Division in Cambridge, call You may report any environmental emergency that poses an immediate threat to the public health or the well-being of the environment such as oil and chemical spills or accidents causing releases of pollutants by calling toll free During regular workdays, please call the office numbers above.

The Compliance Program prioritizes cases based on actual or potential risk to public health or the environment. Inspectors give top priority to major NPDES discharge permit sites, large construction sites, combined sewer systems, large waterway construction or wetlands sites, large sewage overflows, unauthorized discharges of pollutants and NPDES and groundwater discharge permits in significant non-compliance SNC based on self-reported violations.

On a regular basis, Compliance Program staff inspect municipal wastewater treatment plants, manufacturing plants, and sites with industrial activities that discharge wastewater to surface waters to determine compliance with their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NPDES permits.