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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="7-511" title_number="7" title_name="Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Substances" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Voluntary Cleanup Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Within 75 days after the Department has received a proposed response action plan, the Department, after considering any comments the Department has received under § 7-509 of this subtitle, shall notify the participant in writing that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The response action plan has been approved; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The response action plan has been rejected and shall state the modifications in the response action plan that are necessary to receive the Department’s approval.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>If the Department notifies a participant that modifications in a response action plan are necessary to receive the Department’s approval, the participant may resubmit the plan within 120 days after receipt of the Department’s notification.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the participant does not resubmit the plan within 120 days under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, the participant will be considered to have withdrawn the participant’s application in accordance with § 7-512 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Within 30 days after receipt of a resubmitted plan under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Department shall notify the participant whether the plan has been approved.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The response action plan approval letter shall state that, subject to the requirements of § 7-514 of this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>No further action will be required to accomplish the objectives set forth in the approved response action plan other than those actions described in the approved response action plan; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The participant will receive a certificate of completion subject to the conditions and requirements of § 7-514(b) of this subtitle if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The approved response action plan is implemented to the satisfaction of the Department; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The response action plan has achieved the cleanup criteria.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A response action plan approval letter, if applicable, shall include a limitation on the permissible uses of the property that is consistent with the response action plan.</text>
  </level>
</section>
