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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="2-612" title_number="2" title_name="Ambient Air Quality Control" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Enforcement; Penalties">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Secretary may adopt rules and regulations that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Are patterned after § 120 of the federal Clean Air Act and the federal regulations adopted under § 120 of the federal Clean Air Act; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Specify:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The circumstances under which a person who violates this title is subject to a noncompliance penalty equal to the economic benefit that accrues to the person because of noncompliance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The method of calculating the noncompliance penalty;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The manner of payment of the noncompliance penalty; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The circumstances under which a noncompliance penalty collected under this section is subject to rebate.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a person fails to pay a noncompliance penalty in a timely manner, the Secretary may require the person to pay an additional nonpayment penalty for each quarter that the noncompliance penalty remains unpaid.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The nonpayment penalty shall equal 20 percent of the total of the person’s noncompliance penalties and nonpayment penalties that remain unpaid at the beginning of the quarter.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a person fails to pay a noncompliance penalty or nonpayment penalty imposed under this section, the Department may bring an action to collect the penalty in the same manner as a civil penalty is collected under § 2-610 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An action under this section to collect a noncompliance penalty is in addition to and not instead of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An action under § 2-609 of this subtitle; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any other relief under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
