1118                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                             Ch. 500

FACILITIES UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE COMMISSION IN
TERMS OF TREATMENT FACILITIES, SEWER LINES OF BOTH
PROGRAM AND LESS-THAN-PROGRAM SIZE, THEIR RESPECTIVE
DESIGN CAPACITY AND PRESENT VOLUME FLOW TO CAPACITY
RELATIONSHIP, CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULES, AND ANY PROPOSED
PROJECTS UNDER THE SIX-YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
PROGRAM OR TEN-YEAR WATER AND SEWERAGE PLAN;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT WITH RESPECT TO ANY REFERRED
APPLICATION, THE COMMISSION SHALL PROVIDE ANY
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION WHICH MAY BE REQUESTED BY
THE DISTRICT COUNCIL, ITS DESIGNEE OR HEARING EXAMINER,
NOT LATER THAN FIFTEEN (15) DAYS PRIOR TO THE REGULARLY
SCHEDULED PUBLIC HEARING ON THE APPLICATION OR WITHIN
FIFTEEN (15) DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THE REQUEST BY THE
COMMISSION, WHICHEVER IS LATER; AND PROVIDED FURTHER
THAT, UPON REQUEST OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL, ITS DESIGNEE
OR HEARING EXAMINER, THE COMMISSION SHALL MAKE
AVAILABLE MEMBERS OF ITS STAFF OR EMPLOYEES TO APPEAR
BEFORE THE DISTRICT COUNCIL, ITS DESIGNEE OR HEARING
EXAMINER, WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION WHICH THE
COMMISSION IS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE UNDER THIS SECTION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 501
(Senate Bill 1223)

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State debt in the aggregate amount of
Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($25,000,000) to be known as the "Supplemental
Public School Construction and Capital Improvement Loan of 1973", the
proceeds thereof to be [[uoed]] used to finance the construction, improvement
or renovation of certain public school buildings and facilities, including the
acquisition of real estate and interests in land by the counties of this State and
by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore providing generally for the issue
and sale of State general obligation bonds evidencing said loan, and providing
for the method by which such financial assistance is to be afforded to the
various counties and the City of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized and
empowered to issue a State loan to be known as the "Supplemental Public School
Construction and Capital Improvement Loan of 1973", in the aggregate amount of
Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($25,000,000). The certificates of indebtedness
(hereinafter called "bonds") evidencing said loan may be issued all at one time or,
in groups, from time to time, as hereinafter provided. All of said bonds evidencing
said loan, or any group thereof, shall be issued according to a serial maturity plan
to be established in the resolution authorizing the issuance of said loan or any
portion thereof, which plan need not be in equal par amounts or in consecutive
annual installments but shall be so worked out as to discharge the principal
represented by said bonds within fifteen (15) years from the date of issue. It shall