792                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [Ch. 176

the classified service and subject generally to all
privileges and responsibilities provided in this article.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
54B (b) of Article 78 — Public Service Commission Law, of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume
and 1973 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 78 — Public Service Commission Law
543.

(b) In cooperation with the Secretary of Natural
Resources as set forth in [§ 768 of Article 66C,] §3-304
OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES ARTICLE OF THE CODE, the
Commission shall be responsible for assembling and
evaluating annually the long—range plans of Maryland's
public electric utilities regarding generating needs and
means for meeting those needs. The chairman of the
Public Service Commission shall, on an annual basis,
forward to the Secretary of Natural Resources a ten—year
(10) plan listing possible and proposed sites, including
associated transmission routes, for the construction of
electric power plants within the State of Maryland.
Sites which are identified as unsuitable by the Secretary
of Natural Resources in accordance with the requirements
of [§ 768 of Article 66C] §3-304 OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES
ARTICLE OF THE CODE, 66C shall be deleted from the plan,
provided, however, nothing in this subsection shall
prevent the inclusion of such site in subsequent ten—year
(10) plans. The first ten—year (10) plan shall be
submitted on or about January 1, 1972.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections
12E(a), 19(d) and 326(g-1) of Article 81 - Revenue and
Taxes, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and they are
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 81 - Revenue and Taxes
12E.

(a) This section, to the exclusion of any other
public general law and any public local law except those
public local laws enacted pursuant to chapters 669 and
670 of the Acts of the Regular Session of 1965, and those
in which this section is specifically referred to,
controls and regulates exclusively the granting of any
special tax credit based upon land, exclusive of any