# COMAR Title 26 — Department of the Environment

## Subtitle 20 — Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Under Federally Approved Program

### Chapter 34 — General Provisions on Adjudicatory Hearings

#### Regulation .03 Parties.

*COMAR 26.20.34.03*

A. The applicant or permittee shall be made a party to any adjudicatory hearing involving a permit application or permit under the Regulatory Program.

B. The Bureau shall in all cases be made a party to any adjudicatory hearing under the Regulatory Program.

C. Any person may be granted intervention as a party upon a showing, before the beginning of the hearing, that they would have been entitled to request a hearing in their own right, and that existing parties cannot be expected to adequately represent their interests.