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JOINT RESOLUTIONS

development organizations, provide direct input to the
Department from representatives of the travel industry, and
assist the Department in the formulation of policy relating
to tourist development; and advise the General Assembly and
the Governor of the actions needed in the area of tourist
development; and be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Joint Resolution be sent
to the Honorable Blair Lee III, Acting Governor; the
Maryland Association of Travel Executives, P.O. Box 180,
Severna Park, Maryland 21146; the Maryland Hotel and Motor
Inn Association, P.O. Box 180, Severna Park, Maryland 21146;
the Maryland Restaurant Association, 5602 Baltimore National
Pike, Baltimore, Maryland 21228; the Maryland Association of
Campgrounds, Route 1, Box 172A, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
25425; the Maryland State Chamber of Commerce, 60 West
Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401; and the Tourism Council
of the Upper Chesapeake, P.O. Box 66, Centreville, Maryland
21617.

*Not signed by the Acting Governor.

No. 57*

(Senate Joint Resolution 81)

A Senate Joint Resolution concerning

Western Maryland Energy Crisis

FOR the purpose of requesting the Acting Governor of the
State of Maryland to ask the President of the United
States to declare Western Maryland, which is served
utilities by the Potomac Edison Company, a disaster
area entitled to federal economic assistance and
relief. because of the extreme cost of the pass through
fuel adjustment charges being placed on the customers
of the Potomac Edison System as a result of the coal
strike.

WHEREAS, The coal strike has prevented adequate
supplies of coal from reaching the Hatfields Ferry, Fort
Martin, Harrison and Albright power plants in the Allegheny
Power System of which the Potomac Edison Company is a part;
and

WHEREAS, Said coal shortages have required the Potomac
Edison Company to purchase forms of fuel other than coal to
generate energy 60 percent of their total kilowatt hours
from the grid system; and

WHEREAS, The other forms of fuel kilowatt hours
purchased by the Potomac Edison Company from the grid system