State Agencies

must belong to whichever of the two leading po-
litical parties in the State is not the party of the
Governor (Code Transportation Article, secs.
8-210 through 8-218).

The basic function of the State Highway Ad-
ministration is to construct and maintain an ade-
quate State highway system. The State Highway
Administration also maintains, constructs, and
administers the road system of six of the twenty-
three counties of the State. These counties are
Cecil, Kent, Talbot, Calvert, Charles, and St.
Mary's.

The Administration's main offices are located
in Baltimore. For operational purposes, however,
the State is divided into seven engineering dis-
tricts.

DISTRICT ENGINEERS

District No. J, Salisbury:
(Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester
Counties)

James W. Magill, District Engineer
Telephone: 742-2101

District No. 2, Chestertown:
(Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, and Talbot
Counties)

James M. Wright, District Engineer
Telephone: 778-3061

District No. 3, Greenbelt:
(Montgomery and Prince George's Counties)

Eugene T. Camponeschi, District Engineer
Telephone: 345-7100

District No. 4, Brooklandville:
(Baltimore and Harford Counties)

Harry J. McCullough, District Engineer
Telephone: 321-3461

District No. 5, Annapolis:
(Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's
Counties)

Edward H. Meehan, District Engineer
Telephone: 841-5460

District No. 6,- Cumberland:
(Allegany, Garrett, and Washington Counties)

Wallace T. Beaulieu, District Engineer
Telephone: 777-2145

District No. 7, Frederick:
(Carroll, Frederick, and Howard Counties)

Carl E. Raith, District Engineer
Telephone: 662-1171

Right-of-way and legal offices are maintained in
each of the engineering districts.

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MARYLAND PORT ADMINISTRATION

W. G. Halpin, Port Adminstrator
Robert Green, Deputy Port Administrator

Donald Klein, Director, Port Promotion and Pub-
lic Information Officer

World Trade Center
Baltimore 21202 Telephone: 659-4550

The Maryland Port Administration was created
on July 1, 1971, as a part of the Department of
Transportation, succeeding the Maryland Port
Authority, a semiautonomous State agency
established by Chapter 2, Acts of the Special Ses-
sion of 1956. It adopted its present name by
Chapter 526, Acts of 1970, which provided for
the transfer of the rights, duties, powers, and ob-
ligations of the Authority to the Administration.
Not included are those powers and duties that
were transferred to the Maryland Transportation
Authority. By Chapter 280, Acts of the General
Assembly of 1979, the operation of the port of
Cambridge came under the operational control of
the Maryland Port Administration.

The Administration endeavors to promote and
increase waterborne commerce in Maryland. To
this end, the Administration maintains field of-
fices in Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York, Brussels,
London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, as well as in
Baltimore.

When the Administration's predecessor agency
was created in 1956, the primary objective of the
General Assembly was to improve the facilities
and strengthen the workings of the private opera-
tor. If private facilities were found inadequate,
however, or inadequately operated at any time,
the Authority was empowered to construct, and,
if necessary, operate supplementary public facili-
ties (Code Transportation Article, secs. 6-101
through 6-502). This power was transferred to the
Administration in 1970.

From 1956 through fiscal year 1980, the Port
Administration invested some $198,000,000 in
modernizing and constructing international gener-
al cargo facilities in the port of Baltimore and
expended another $2,000,000 in new port facili-
ties at Cambridge and Crisfield on Maryland's
Eastern Shore.

PRIVATE SECTOR ADVISORY BOARD

Bernard Berkowitz, William J. Brown, John Car-
roll Byrnes, Louis V. Cavallaro, Leonard W.
Dayton, Morris E. Horwitz, John Kopp, John
Kreui, James Lucas, M. Eamon McGeady,
Robert Strott, Patrick T. Welsh.

World Trade Center
Baltimore 21202 Telephone: 659-4500