SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       1713

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, is requested to promptly
order an end to segregation in off-base housing for military
personnel, and be it further

Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives in Congress from
Maryland are urged to take all necessary action to urge Secretary
McNamara to issue such a directive on segregated military housing,
and be it further

Resolved, That copies of this Resolution be sent to Secretary of
Defense Robert S. McNamara, Senators Brewster and Tydings and
Representatives Fallon, Friedel, Garmatz, Gude, Long, Machen,
Mathias and Morton.

Approved May 4, 1967.

No. 25
(Senate Joint Resolution 54)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the Governor of Maryland to
appoint a Commission to review the problems involved in the use
and spraying of herbicides and pesticides in order to submit
regulatory legislation to the 1968 General Assembly.

Whereas, There is a proven need for state controls on the use of
pesticides and herbicides, and

Whereas, Several incidents involving the use and spraying of
pesticides and herbicides indicate that control of those who use these
chemicals and their manner of use ought to be regulated by the
State, and

Whereas, Some of the uses pointing up the need for controls are:

1.    The contamination of streams from cleaning of equipment and
for utility right-of-way spraying, which resulted in damage to the
crops of a farmer drawing irrigation water from the stream;

2.    Pollution of aquatic life from spray drifting on the wind
over water areas adjacent to sprayed areas;

3.    Damage to trees and other life from spraying operations; and

Whereas, Serious harm can occur to plants, agricultural crops,
trees, shrubbery, aquatic and human life from the unintended
effects of the use of pesticides and herbicides. The effects of crop
dusting operations and mosquito control programs can lead to wide-
spread and indiscriminate spraying on adjacent lands and waters
with damage done to the lands and pollution caused to the waters.
There have been instances also when wells have been contaminated
by such operations.

Whereas, There now is practically a complete lack of regulation
in these crop dusting and mosquito control operations. The members
of the General Assembly of Maryland realize the importance of these
operations and would not want unduly to restrict them; at the same