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(c)  To provide technical assistance to individual property owners,
municipalities and counties having specific shore and bank erosion
problems.

(d)  To design, or cause to be designed, shore erosion control struc-
tures, including vegetative cover, in shore erosion control districts.

(e)  To enter into agreements with persons, corporations, munic-
ipalities or counties for construction of shore erosion control struc-
tures.

(f)  To administer the State Shore Erosion Control Construction
Loan Fund to provide loans to persons, municipalities or counties
in support of construction of shore erosion control structures.

(g)  To supervise or make provision for the supervising of the
design and erection of all shore protective devices financed wholly
or in part by the State Shore Erosion Construction Loan Fund.

(h) To prepare requests for appropriation of funds necessary to
maintain the State Shore Erosion Control Construction Fund.

(i) To cooperate with the following agencies:

(1)  The State Roads Commission for shore erosion control where
essential to protect municipal, county or State roads.

(2)  The United States Army Corps of Engineers for the conduct
of shore erosion studies.

(3)  The Soil Conservation Service, United States Department of
Agriculture, in evaluation and application of vegetative measures for
shore erosion control.

(j) To design, construct and maintain shore erosion control works
on stateowned lands [when such projects are included in the annual
budget.] for the Shore Erosion Construction Loan Fund].

(k) To promulgate regulations for the administration and imple-
mentation of this subtitle.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 31, 1972.

CHAPTER 681
(Senate Bill 682)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 568V of
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement
Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "Health," subtitle "Health
Services Cost Review Commission," to re-define "fair return on
investment" as applied to the establishment of rates for patients in
non-profit and proprietary profit-making institutions by the Health
Services Cost Review Commission.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 568V of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland