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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="4-302.1" title_number="4" title_name="Water Management" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Watershed Sediment and Waste Control">
  <level label="a">
    <text>On or before January 1, 2012, unless a more advanced upgrade or upgrade schedule is required by a State or federal law or regulation, if funding is available from the Bay Restoration Fund, a nonfederal, publicly owned wastewater treatment plant that discharges wastewater into the Patuxent River or any of its tributaries and has a design capacity of at least 500,000 gallons per day shall upgrade to enhanced nutrient removal, as defined under § 9-1601 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On or before January 1, 2016, unless a more advanced upgrade or upgrade schedule is required by a State or federal law or regulation, if funding is available from the Bay Restoration Fund, a nonfederal wastewater treatment plant that discharges wastewater into the Patuxent River or any of its tributaries and has a design capacity of at least 50,000 gallons per day shall upgrade to enhanced nutrient removal, as defined under § 9-1601 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On or before January 1, 2020, unless a more advanced upgrade or upgrade schedule is required by a State or federal law or regulation, if funding is available from the Bay Restoration Fund, a nonfederal wastewater treatment plant that discharges wastewater into the Patuxent River or any of its tributaries and has a design capacity that is less than 50,000 gallons per day shall upgrade to enhanced nutrient removal, as defined under § 9-1601 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
