Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1115

387B.

(a) A Sanitary Facilities Fund is hereby established. It shall
consist of two parts, as follows:

1. The planning part which shall be available to the State De-
partment of Health to finance planning for water and sewerage facili-
ties and for solid waste disposal systems and solid waste acceptance
facilities and for collection and disposal of litter, refuse, or other

solid wastes programs. The State Department of Health is hereby

authorized to utilize funds appropriated in the program of the annual
State operating budget which provides for general local health serv-
ices, for this purpose. When so used, the proportion of State, county,
and local funds, respectively, shall be that specified for the financing
of minimum health services. The planning for water and sewerage
facilities, for solid waste disposal systems, and for solid waste accept
ance facilities and for collection and disposal of litter, refuse, or other
solid wastes programs to be financed in this manner may be financed
jointly by, or under the joint authority of the State Department of
Health and any county or Baltimore City, or the Washington Subur-
ban Sanitary Commission.

2. The construction part which shall be available to the Board of

Public Works to finance construction of basic main facilities of a

sewerage system, as defined in the Federal Water Pollution Control

Act, for the collection and treatment of sewage and industrial wastes

from lateral or collector sewers. Funds for this part shall be those

which may be available from specifically authorized sanitary facil-

ities sewerage loans. Such funds shall be available under the condi-

tions set forth in the legislation authorizing the funds.

(b) The State Department of Health and the local governments
authorized to enter into joint financing agreements for the utili-

zation of whatever federal grants may be available for any of the

purposes cited in this section.

(c) The counties and the municipalities of the State are hereby
authorized to appropriate general funds to participate in the program
authorized by this section.

(d) In the event a special governmental agency is charged with

providing sanitary facilities within a county or municipality, the

local and State general funds cited in this section may be available

to such agency for the purposes authorized by this section.

387C.

(a) Definitions: As used in this subsection:

1    "County plan" means a comprehensive plan and all amendments
and revisions thereof for the provision of adequate water supply
systems and sewerage and solid waste disposal systems and a syste-
matic program for the collection and disposal of litter, refuse, or
other solid material from, public and private property and solid waste
acceptance facilities throughout the county to include all towns, mu-
nicipal corporations, and sanitary districts therein.

2    "Community sewerage system" means any system, whether pub-
licly or privately owned, serving two or more individual lots for the
collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid