# Environment (GEN)

## Title 9. Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities

### Subtitle 2. Regulation by State

#### Section 9-281

(a) In this part the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b)

  (1) "Coal combustion by-products" means the residue generated by, or resulting from, the burning of coal.

  (2) "Coal combustion by-products" includes fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag, pozzolan, and other solid residuals removed by air pollution control devices from the flue gas and combustion chambers of coal-burning furnaces and boilers, including flue gas desulfurization sludge and other solid residuals recovered from flue gas by wet or dry methods.

(c) "Fund" means the State Coal Combustion By-Products Management Fund.

(d)

  (1) "Generator" means a person whose operations, activities, processes, or actions create coal combustion by-products.

  (2) "Generator" does not include a person who only generates coal combustion by-products by burning coal at a private residence.

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Md. Code Ann., Envir. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)