Marvin Mandel, Governor                         579

sewage treatment plants and related facilities from $100,000,000
to $115,000,000 and decreasing the share allocated for loans for
sewer facilities from $25,000,000 to $10,000,000; to provide that
State grant offers shall equal the total cost of any project to
be operated by a State owned institution or facility; TO PERMIT
STATE INSTRUMENTALITIES HAVING EXPRESS POWER
TO DO SO TO PETITION FOR STATE GRANTS; to delete
provisions of the Water Quality Loan Act of 1968 which generally
require that the $4,000,000 share of the Water Quality Loan
of 1968 allocated for comprehensive river basin water quality con-
trol and abatement planning must be used to match and adminis-
ter federal grants, and deleting provisions which require that the
development of such plans must be pursuant to Section 3 (c)
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and that such plans
and the programs developed therein must be in compliance with
federal regulations and objectives; to delete the requirement that
a federal grant must have been offered for a river basin program
before the Department of Water Resources shall provide the
Board of Public Works with a budget covering the State share
of the cost of such program; to provide for the adoption of rules
and regulations concerning development of river basin-wide water
quality control and abatement programs by the Director of the
Department of Water Resources instead of by the Water Re-
sources Commission; and to correct an erroneous reference to
REFERENCES TO SECTION 387B AND TO Section 387C of
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland and relating gen-
erally to the Water Quality Loan Act of 1968.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 5 of Chapter 445 of the Acts of 1968, as amended by
Chapter 653 of the Acts of 1969, be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

5.

And be it further enacted, (a) That the actual cash proceeds from
the sale of Certificates of Indebtedness to be issued under this Act
shall be paid to the Treasurer of the State upon the warrant of the
Comptroller, and such proceeds shall be used exclusively for the
purposes set forth under the provisions of this Act. The Comptroller
shall immediately upon the sale of and payment for said Certifi-
cates, first, return to and credit the Treasury for a sum equivalent
to the amount expended as provided in Section 4 of this Act.

CONSTRUCTION GRANTS

(b) Of the actual cash proceeds from the sale of Certificates of
Indebtedness to be issued under this Act, the sum of [One Hundred
Million Dollars ($100,000,000)] One Hundred Fifteen Million Dol-
lars ($115,000,000), less a proportionate share of the costs specified
in Section 4 of this Act, shall be used exclusively to provide State
grants and prepay Federal grant offers to assist in the construction
of sewage treatment plants and related facilities eligible for grants
under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Any county, munic-
ipality, or any agency of the State or any of its subdivisions which
is entitled to receive a State Grant pursuant to the provisions of
Section 387(A)2 387B(A)2 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of