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(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection
(a) of this section, in any fiscal year the Department
may expend from the Waterways Improvement Fund without
legislative approval a total sum of not more than
[$150,000] $225,000. Of this amount, A SUM OF NOT MORE
THAN $125,000 may be expended for small projects under §
8—707 (3) and (4), subject to the limitation that no one
single project of this kind may exceed $5,000 in cost to
the waterways Improvement Fund, and A SUM OF NOT MORE
THAN [$25,000] $100,000 [shall] MAY be expended for
boating safety and education.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974.

CHAPTER 432
(House Bill 241)
AN ACT concerning

The Water Quality Loan Act of 1968

FOR the purpose of amending the provisions of the Water
Quality Loan Act of 1968 to permit the use of
certain proceeds from the sale of certificates of
indebtedness thereunder for the development of water
supply plans pursuant to the provisions of Title 3,
Subtitle 1, of the Natural Resources Article of the
Annotated Code of Maryland; and to correct certain
statutory references in the Act.

BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments.

Chapter 445 of the Acts of 19.68

Section 5 (g)

(As amended by Chapter 653 of the Acts of

1969, Chapter 246 of the Acts of 1970, and

Chapter 734 of the Acts of 1971)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 5(g) of Chapter 445 of the Acts of
1968, as amended by Chapter 653 of the Acts of 1969,
Chapter 246 of the Acts of 1970, and Chapter 734 of the
Acts of 1971) be and it is hereby repealed and