The Resource Management Program within the Land and Materials Administration of the Maryland Department of the Environment regulates several activities to ensure the protection of public health​ and the environment. The permit assures the proper management and recycling of organics such as yard trimmings, preconsumer and post-consumer food scraps, nonrecyclable paper, Department-approved animal manure and bedding, industrially produced food processing materials, animal mortalities, manufactured organic materials like waxed-corrugated cardboard, non-coated paper and other materials that the Department determines pose a low level of risk from hazardous substances and a higher level risk from physical contaminates and human pathogens. This includes Individual Composting Facility Permit and General Composting Facility Permit

A Tire Derived Fuel or Substitute Fuel Facility Approval is for permission to utilize scrap tires (whole or chipped) as a fuel or supplemental fuel.

A Scrap Tire Collection Facility License authorizes facilities to temporarily accumulate and transfer scrap tires to Department-approved facilities, with a General Scrap Tire Collection Facility defined as one that holds no more than 50 scrap tires on site at any given time.

A Scrap Tire Hauler is for persons who, as part of a commercial business, transport more than five scrap tires annually to or from a scrap tire facility licensed or approved by the Department.

A Scrap Tire Collection Facility License authorizes facilities to temporarily accumulate and transfer scrap tires to Department-approved facilities, with a Primary Scrap Tire Collection Facility defined as one that holds more than 1,500 scrap tires on site at any given time.

A Scrap Tire Recycler License is for facilities that recycle or process scrap tires into raw materials or products that may be returned to the marketplace.

A Scrap Tire Collection Facility License authorizes facilities to temporarily accumulate and transfer scrap tires to Department-approved facilities, with a Secondary Scrap Tire Collection Facility defined as one that accumulates up to 1,500 scrap tires on site at any given time.

A Solid Waste Acceptance Facility Approval is to authorize the processing of scrap tires at any permitted landfill, incinerator, transfer station, or processing facility.

Any individual or property owner who desires to have a sewage disposal (septic) system installed on their property or requiring repair to an existing system must get a Septic System Construction Permit.

The application of sewage sludge to land returns essential nutrients to the soil, adds organic matter, and can improve the tillabilty and moisture retention capability of the soil. A sewage sludge utilization permit is required by the Maryland Department of Environment for any person who treats, composts, transports, stores, distributes, applies to land, incinerates, conducts innovative or research projects or disposes of sewage sludge or septage (effluent from septic tanks) in Maryland. Sewage sludge (also known as biosolids) is not sewage. It is one of the final products of the treatment of sewage at a wastewater treatment plant. After treatment to break down the organic matter and destroy disease causing organisms, the remaining fine particles ultimately become sewage sludge.