It is the intent of the county council and county executive that county participation in the planning process, conducted through the water resources planning board shall be conditioned upon the consistency of the annual work program and budget with maximum involvement of the county water resources planning staff to the extent that these responsibilities are pertinent to that work program and budget.
In furtherance of this policy, the water resources planning board's annual work program and budget shall be reviewed to ensure that the county is clearly assigned the primary responsibilities and commensurate funding to undertake at least the following programs and projects involving areas within the county that may be included in the work program:
(a) Provisions of community water supply and wastewater disposal systems;
(b) Programs of individual water supply and wastewater disposal systems both on an interim and indefinite basis;
(c) Disposal of solid wastes as they relate to water pollution control;
(d) Planning, programming and financing requirements for the orderly expansion and extension of community and individual water supply, wastewater and solid waste disposal systems consistent with anticipated growth within succeeding five-, ten- and twenty-year periods;
(e) Local implementation of the required regulatory programs necessary to regulate discharges into the waters of the county, including those resulting from excavation and grading;
(f) Programs for the control of nonpoint sources of pollution, such as agricultural, silvicultural discharges and landfill discharges;
(g) Identification and control of construction related sources of pollution.
The county executive is authorized to use such county resources as are available to him through approved appropriations and any supplementary funds made available by the water resources planning board to undertake the activities noted above and to assign such county personnel to work with the staff of the water resources planning board as he deems appropriate and desirable, consistent with other legal responsibilities under state or local law. (1975 L.M.C., ch. 25, § 1.)
Editor's note-In the Commissioners of Poolesville v. County Council of Montgomery County, 24 Md. App. 347, 330 A.2d 711 (1975), Poolesville challenged its exclusion from the ten-year comprehensive water and sewer plan. The court never reached the substantive issues involved as it ruled that Poolesville had failed to exhaust its administrative remedies.