482 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

But while we must speed the flow of traffic across our waters to in-
crease our economic growth, we cannot neglect the waters below lest
we destroy our State's single greatest economic asset. This year, I
signed into law a bill allocating $50 million to local governments to
extend water and sewer facilities. This tripled the amount dedicated
by any previous administration. In 1968, I shall propose legislation to
the 1968 General Assembly designed to combat and eliminate the pol-
lution of our waters. Comprehensive measures must be enacted to pro-
vide incentives for industry to curb its contamination, to replace anti-
quated public sewage and ineffective private septic systems, to curb
unrestrained open surface drainage and unrestricted pollution by water
craft. Anne Arundel County with a linear shore line exceeding 400
miles will reap great benefits from this massive effort.

We are working in a dozen directions to generate new life into
Maryland. We have a Constitutional Convention working to create
a vital and viable governmental structure for our State — one which
will retain all the best of past traditions yet enable our State to grow
and build and prosper.

We have established a Task Force on Modern Management to as-
sure maximum economy in all State-financed operations and maximum
efficiency through streamlining our State government organization.
Similar units in other states have produced phenomenal results. Initial
savings of over $25 million were recorded in New York State, $50 mil-
lion in Ohio and $60 million in the State of Washington.

We have enacted model air quality control legislation and promul-
gated standards to assure the purity of our most precious natural
resource.

We have endeavored to move forward in human rights, to extend
all the guarantees yet preserve all the protections promised individuals
by our Federal Constitution. We have been touched by racial violence,
yet we have contained it through a refusal to tolerate irresponsible
exploitation and incitement and a willingness to remedy justified
grievances.

We have established the State's first professional highway safety
engineering committee to review all highways for hazards and advise
on remedial safety design.

We are attacking crime through direct State aid, through the reform
of prisons and the development of volunteer professional and lay ad-
visory groups such as the Miles Commission on Gambling and the
Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.