activities of the Ocean City Convention Hall. The
Division's mission is to attract new industry into
Maryland and to encourage expansion of existing
firms, and by so doing to widen job opportunities
in the State. Additionally, the Division assists
Maryland business and industry to resolve
problems and to broaden markets for Maryland
products through exporting.

The Division also administers the Maryland In-
dustrial Land Act, which assists counties and
Baltimore City to acquire and develop industrial
land and shell buildings.

Community Economic Inventories and other
business and industrial reference and promotional
publications are prepared by the Division. It also
conducts advertising programs in national and re-
gional publications, which call attention to Mary-
land's business and industrial advantages and op-
portunities, tourist attractions, and the State's
seafood delicacies (Code 1957, Art. 41, sees.
258-266).

Briefly, the Division operates through the fol-
lowing programs:

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVEL-
OPMENT

Jerry McDonald, Program Director

1748 Forest Drive
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-3514

This program provides assistance and advice on
plant location and expansion (sites, buildings, la-
bor, taxes, financing, etc.). It also provides infor-
mation and technical assistance regarding
exporting and importing. A European Industrial
Development Representative is stationed in Brus-
sels, Belgium.

OFFICE OF BUSINESS LIAISON
George W. Hubley, Jr„ Program Director

1748 Forest Drive
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-3727

The Office of Business Liaison, which was
established in 1972, is Maryland's "businessman's
ombudsman" and "hot line" to services, informa-
tion, and expertise available from State agencies.
Its main function is to reduce red tape and time-
consuming delays. The Office serves as a central
clearinghouse for solving many of the problems of
the businessman in his relations with State gov-
ernment. It also provides services designed to find

and expand the export market for the products of
Maryland industry.

TOURIST DEVELOPMENT
Peter C. Chambliss, Acting Program Director

1748 Forest Drive
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-3517

The Tourist Development program promotes
Maryland's scenic, recreational, cultural, and his-
toric attractions. It also provides matching funds
to local jurisdictions for tourism purposes.

SEAFOOD MARKETING
Gordon P. Hallock, Program Director

1748 Forest Drive
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-3461

Seafood Marketing promotes increased con-
sumption and distribution of Maryland seafood.
It seeks more efficient methods or techniques that
will reduce cost and improve product quality and
marketability, as well as increase employment.

MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
Henry T. Arrington, Program Director

1748 Forest Drive
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-2682

This program promotes and coordinates plans,
programs, and program objectives and operations
of State Government that affect or may contrib-
ute to the establishment, preservation, and
strengthening of Minority Business Enterprise.

SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
FINANCING AUTHORITY

Directors: Dr. Winifred 0. Bryson, 1980; Cecil F.
Plainer, 1982; Eve R. Grover, 1983; Robbie
Page, 1981; Howard Pinckett, 1979.

Vacancy, Secretary, Department of Economic and
Community Development; William S. James,
State Treasurer

1748 Forest Drive
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-3944

The Small Business Development Financing
Authority was created in 1978 to make working
capital available to businesses owned by minority

or disadvantaged individuals to fulfill contracts

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