1322                                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                           [Ch. 291

TRANSMIT COPIES THEREOF, TOGETHER WITH HIS COMMENTS, IF
ANY, TO THE HEADS OF ALL DEPARTMENTS, AND PRINCIPAL UNITS
NOT WITHIN A DEPARTMENT, OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
UPON FILING OF THE PLAN, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MAKE COPIES
OF THE PLAN AVAILABLE FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OR SALE.

(B)    UPON PREPARATION OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN
DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPHS (6) AND (7) IN SECTION 4(B), THE
SECRETARY SHALL SUBMIT THE SAME TO THE GOVERNOR, WHO MAY
FILE IT, TOGETHER WITH HIS COMMENTS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE
SECRETARY OF STATE. AFTER SUCH FILING, THE GOVERNOR
SHALL SUBMIT THE SAME TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, WITH HIS
COMMENTS, IF ANY, BY TRANSMITTING COPIES TO THE PRESIDENT
OF THE SENATE, AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, WITHIN TEN
DAYS AFTER THE NEXT REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY CONVENES. THE GOVERNOR ALSO SHALL TRANSMIT
COPIES THEREOF, TOGETHER WITH HIS COMMENTS, IF ANY, TO
THE HEADS OF ALL DEPARTMENTS, AND PRINCIPAL UNITS NOT
WITHIN A DEPARTMENT, OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. UPON
FILING OF THE PLAN, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MAKE COPIES OF
THE PLAN AVAILABLE FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OR SALE.

(C)    ANY AMENDMENT, CHANGE. OR REVISION TO THE PLAN

SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE SAME PROCEDURES AS SET FORTH IN

SUBSECTIONS (A) AND (B) OF THIS SECTION.

[6.] 8. State Program; annual budget.

The Department [of State Planning] shall prepare,
amend and keep up to date a five—year program of State
public works and major capital improvement projects
undertaken or recommended to be undertaken by the State.
Such program may also contain major projects undertaken
or recommended to be undertaken with State aid or under
State regulation. In preparing the program, the
Department [of State Planning] shall have the
collaboration of the Department of Budget and Fiscal
Planning. The program shall classify projects in regard
to the urgency and need for their realization, and shall
recommend a time sequence for their construction. The
program shall also contain the contract price or
estimated cost of each project and shall indicate
probable operating and maintenance costs and probable
revenues, if any, as well as existing sources of funds or
the need for additional sources of funds for the
construction and operation of each project. The capital
program shall, as far as possible, be based on existing
information in the possession of the Department [of State
Planning], the Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning
and other departments and agencies of State government.
Heads of departments and other agencies and
instrumentalities of State government shall transmit to
the Secretary [of State Planning] a statement of all
capital projects proposed to be undertaken by their