1314                                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                            [Ch. 291

EFFECT AS APPROVED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. WHEN THE

BOARD FINDS A CONFLICT BETWEEN STATE POLICIES AND ANY

LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLAN CONCERNING AN AREA OF CRITICAL

STATE CONCERN, THE BOARD SHALL SO ADVISE THE LOCAL

GOVERNMENT AND REQUIRE THE APPROPRIATE UNIT OF LOCAL

GOVERNMENT TO SUBMIT A REVISED PLAN IN ACCORD WITH STATE

POLICIES. THE PROCEDURES FOR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO

SUBMIT THE REVISED PLAN SHALL BE THE SAME AS THOSE SET

FORTH IN SECTION 20(A) CONCERNING THE SUBMISSION AND

RE-SUBMISSION OF DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS. IF THE BOARD

FINDS THAT THE REVISED PLAN DOES NOT COMPLY WITH STATE
POLICIES IN THE DESIGNATED CRITICAL AREA, THE BOARD SHALL
DISAPPROVE THE PLAN AND SHALL STATE IN DETAIL ITS REASONS
FOR THE DISAPPROVAL, AFTER WHICH TIME THE LOCAL

GOVERNMENT, WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF THE DATE OF

DISAPPROVAL, SHALL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RE-SUBMIT A

PLAN FOR THE DESIGNATED CRITICAL AREA. AFTER SUCH TIME,
HOWEVER, [[HOWEVER,]] WHERE THERE IS A CONFLICT WITH
STATE POLICIES AND ANY LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLAN CONCERNING
ANY DESIGNATED AREA OF CRITICAL STATE CONCERN, THE STATE
POLICIES SHALL SUPERSEDE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLAN AS THE
LATTER RELATES TO THE DESIGNATED AREA OF CRITICAL STATE
CONCERN. ANY AMENDMENT, REVISION, OR CHANGE OF A LOCAL
GOVERNMENT PLAN SHALL BE TREATED IN THE SAME MANNER AS IS
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLAN AS HEREINABOVE DESCRIBED.]] In
preparing the [[ [ ]] State development[[ ] ]] plan [[ [
]] or any part thereof, and in preparing, from time to
time, revisions, amendments, extensions or additions,[[ ]
]] the Department [of State Planning] SHALL SEEK THE
COMMENTS OF AND CONSULT WITH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF THE
AREAS WHICH ARE AFFECTED BY THE PLAN AND [may] SHALL seek
the cooperation and advice of OTHER appropriate
departments, agencies and instrumentalities of federal.
State and local government, regional and metropolitan
planning commissions, educational institutions and
research organizations, whether public or private, and of
civic groups and private persons and INTERESTED
organizations. The [[ [ ]] State development plan shall
embody the policy recommendations of the Department of
State Planning in regard to the economic and physical
development of the State and[[ ]]] [[PLAN]] shall
contain:

(1)    A statement of the objectives, standards and
principles sought to be expressed in the plan;

(2)   Recommendations for the most desirable general
pattern of land use within the State, in the light of the
best available information concerning topography,
climate, soil and underground conditions, water sources
and bodies of water, and other natural or environmental
factors, as well as in the light of the best available
information concerning the present and prospective
economic bases of the State, WATER AND SEWERAGE