1528                            Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 714

circulation in the [respective counties] county. Where recommen-
dations have been received from the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission as provided for in subsection (b) (4)
(vii) hereof the Sanitary Commission does not agree therewith, the
Sanitary Commission shall submit, in writing, to the [applicable]
governing body of Prince George's County, its reasons for not accept-
ing such recommendations and furnish a copy to the said Park and
Planning Commission. Where recommendations for any change in a
proposed county plan are received from the Park and Planning Com-
mission, the [applicable] governing body of Prince George's County
shall separately consider and vote on each item which received such
recommendation. After the [respective] public hearing[s], [each]
the governing body of Prince George's County shall review and amend
as it may see fit the proposed plan or annual revision thereto and
thereafter shall approve the plan or annual revision and submit it
to the State Department of Health, all within the time requirements
as elsewhere set forth in this section. This subsection shall not apply
to the solid wastes management portion of the County plan.

(III) In Montgomery County, the County Council shall have the
responsibility for the approval of the plans and annual revisions of
such plans for Montgomery County. The County Council shall pre-
pare a statement of the objectives and policies to be achieved and
implemented by the plans and which shall include any or all related
aspects of planning, zoning, population estimates, engineering, eco-
nomics and State, regional, municipal, local and area plans to be
taken into consideration, included in, or noted by the plans. The
County Council may make such annual revisions in its established
objectives and policies as it deems necessary. The County Executive
shall have the responsibility for preparing the plans and annual
revisions of plans for Montgomery County to achieve the objectives
and policies established by the County Council. The Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission and the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission shall provide to the Council and
County Executive such information and assistance as may be reason-
ably required by either or both of them for their respective above-
stated functions in the preparation, review and adoption of the plans
and annual revisions thereof, with the procedures for the requests
and for the transmittal of responses, including a reasonable time-
table therefor, to be worked out among the County Executive and the
Council and the two Commissions. The Sanitary Commission shall
provide requested information as to engineering, design, present and
future capacities, available service projections and fiscal elements
of the water and sewerage plans and annual revisions thereof, and
the Park and Planning Commission shall provide requested infor-
mation as to population, growth projections, planning factors and
other developmental criteria specified by the County Council or
County Executive. The County Executive shall prepare and submit
to the County Council a preliminary draft for its consideration, re-
vision, modification, comments and approval as a preliminary plan.
The final plans or annual revision of plans shall be prepared by the
County Executive, conformable with the action of the Council in
approving the preliminary drafts, taking into consideration signifi-
cant intervening planning or development changes. The County
Council shall hold a public hearing on the proposed final county
plans and the annual review REVISION thereof, ten days notice of
which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper or newspapers