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Section 4 of this Act; the remainder of the proceeds of said loan
shall be credited on the books of the State Treasury Department
to be expended as needed by the State, upon approval by the Board
of Public Works, to be used exclusively to supplement grants made
to municipalities in this State under the Water Pollution Control
Act of the Congress of the United States, as amended by Public
Law 660 of the Eighty-fourth Congress, and as further amended
from time to time.

(c) Any use of State funds shall be only for the construction of
necessary sewage treatment works to prevent the discharge of un-
treated or inadequately treated sewage or other waste into any waters
and for the purpose of reports, plans, and specifications in connection
therewith, under said Public Law 660, as amended from time to time.

(d) Any municipality in this State, as defined under the Water
Pollution Control Act of the United States, as amended by P. k
660 of the 84th Congress, which has received a Federal grant under
said Public Law 660, as amended from time to time, may petition the
State of Maryland for an equal and matching grant toward the cost
of the same project. This petition is subject to the limitation that the
State and Federal grants combined shall not exceed fifty per centum
(50%) of the total construction cost of any sewage treatment works.
The petition is subject to the further limitation that it may not
request the allocation of State money for any one project by any
one municipality in excess of the sum of Four Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($400, 000). The petition in the first instance shall be directed
to the State Board of Health, and upon the approval of the plans
by the State Board of Health, the Board shall promptly report the
petition to the Board of Public Works, together with its report that
the project has been approved both by the Surgeon-General of the
United States or other lawful Federal authority under the provisions
of said Public Law 660, as amended from time to time, and also
by the State Department of Health, and that the Board of Public
Works shall make available the necessary matching funds as pro-
vided hereunder.

(e) The Board of Public Works shall allocate from monies available
under this Act, to every municipality receiving such a Federal grant,
an equal and matching sum toward the cost of the same project. This
allocation is subject to the limitation that the State and Federal
grants combined shall not exceed fifty per centum (50%) of the total
construction cost of any sewage treatment works. The allocation is
subject to the further limitation that no monies in excess of the sum
of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400, 000) shall be provided by
the State to any one municipality for any one project. The Board
shall certify the allocation of State funds to the Treasurer of the
State, and the Treasurer shall make them available to the munici-
pality when needed for the construction of the project.

(f) The Board of Public Works is authorized in its discretion to
adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for receiving such peti-
tions from municipalities in this State and for the consideration of the
petitions and the disbursing of the funds to the petitioning munici-
palities, within the spirit and intent of this Act.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That until all of the interest on