698                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 543

The State Planning Department shall prepare, amend and keep up
to date a six-year program of state public works and major capital
improvement projects undertaken or recommended to be undertaken
by the state. Such program may also contain major projects under-
taken or recommended to be undertaken with state aid or under state
regulation. In preparing the program, the State Planning Depart-
ment shall have the collaboration of the Department of Budget and
Procurement. The program shall classify projects in regard to the
urgency and need for their realization, and shall recommend a time
sequence for their construction. The program shall also contain the
contract price or estimated cost of each project and shall indicate
probable operating and maintenance costs and probable revenues, if
any, as well as existing sources of funds or the need for additional
sources of funds for the construction and operation of each project.
The capital program shall, as far as possible, be based on existing
information in the possession of the Office DEPARTMENT of State
Planning, the Department of Budget and Procurement and other de-
partments and agencies of state government. Heads of departments
and other agencies and instrumentalities of state government shall
transmit to the Director of State planning a statement of all capital
projects proposed to be undertaken by their departments or agencies
for study, advice and recommendation by the State Planning Depart-
ment and for consideration for inclusion in the capital program of
the state. Such department or agency heads shall also, upon request,
submit such information to the State Planning Department and to the
Department of Budget and Procurement as these agencies may re-
quire in the preparation of the program. The State Planning Depart-
ment shall assist the Department of Budget and Procurement in the
preparation of the annual capital budget.

10. Assistance to metropolitan, regional or local planning agen-
cies; application of federal funds in aid of local planning activities;
audit

The State Planning Department may render financial or other
planning assistance to county, municipal or other local governments,
instrumentalities or planning agencies and to regional or metropoli-
tan planning commissions. Such assistance may be conditioned on
equal, larger or smaller contributions by the agency which requests
such assistance, but in any case in which funds or services are re-
quested and received by the State Planning office DEPARTMENT
from any federal agency for planning assistance to county, municipal
or other local governments, instrumentalities or planning agencies, or
to regional or metropolitan planning commissions, the condition im-
posed by federal law or regulation shall be carried out. Whenever fed-
eral laws or regulations condition such grants upon equal, larger or
smaller contributions without specification as to whether the state, or
the locality receiving planning assistance shall make such contribution,
the State Planning Department may supply such contribution or any
part thereof. Whenever the State Planning Department is requested
to render financial assistance to a regional, metropolitan, county,
municipal or other local planning agency, the Director of State Plan-
ning shall first consider the adequacy and competence of the particu-
lar agency. All local governments, instrumentalities or planning
agencies receiving financial or other planning assistance from the
State Planning Department shall at the request of the Director of
State Planning submit copies of their PLANNING budgets for plan-