454                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 214

report the result of its researches, and to make recommendations to
the governing boards of the public institutions of higher education
and to appropriate State officials with respect to the matters it has
considered. The functions of the Council shall include the following:

(1)   Preparation of programs for the orderly growth and over-all
development of the State system of public higher education to meet
trends in population and the changing social and technical require-
ments of the economy;

(2)   Investigation of the needs throughout the State for under-
graduate, graduate and adult education, for professional and tech-
nical training and for research facilities, and presentation of plans
and recommendations for the establishment and location of new
facilities and programs;

(3)   Study and [advice] advise regarding the Statewide coordina-
tion of the activities of the public institutions of higher learning,
academically, administratively and fiscally, with the objective of
achieving the most effective and economical employment of existing
educational facilities and of fostering a climate of cooperation and
unified endeavor in the field of public higher education.

(4)  Securing, evaluating, compiling and tabulating data, statistics,
and information on all matters pending before or of interest to the
Council, from the agencies and institutions having custody of and
responsibility therefor; and these several agencies and institutions
shall respond to and comply with any reasonable request of the
Council for such data, statistics, and information.

(5)   Such other studies and reports concerning public higher edu-
cation as the Governor or General Assembly may from time to time
request.

(b) The Council shall submit to the Governor and to the General
Assembly each year at the beginning of the session of the General
Assembly, an annual report of its activities, including a report of the
nature, progress or result of any studies it has undertaken or com-
pleted, together with such plans or recommendations respecting
public higher education as may be appropriate.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved April 29, 1966.

CHAPTER 214
(Senate Bill 439)

AN ACT to add new Sections 253 through 255L, inclusive, to the
Code of Public Local Laws of Howard County (1965 Edition,
being Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Howard County," to follow immediately after Section 252
thereof, and to be under a new subtitle "Pollution of Air," to
provide for the regulation and control of air pollution for Howard