2272                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 551

take final action only after due consideration of the
recommendations of such governing bodies, the need to meet
present and future demands for service, effect on system
stability and reliability, economics, esthetics, historic
sites, aviation safety as determined by the State Aviation
Administration and the administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration, and, when applicable, the effect on air and
water pollution, AND, IN THE CASE OF ANY NUCLEAR GENERATING

STATION FOR WHICH AN APPLICATION IS RECEIVED BY THE

COMMISSION AFTER JULY 1, 1981, THE AVAILABILITY OF MEANS FOR
DISPOSAL OF PERMANENT STORAGE OF HIGH LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTES
THE AVAILABILITY OF MEANS FOR THE REQUIRED TIMELY DISPOSAL
OF WASTES PRODUCED BY ANY FOSSIL FUEL OR NONFOSSIL FUEL
GENERATING STATION FOR WHICH AN APPLICATION IS RECEIVED BY
THE COMMISSION AFTER, JULY 1, 1981. The Commission shall
allow State agencies 15 days after conclusion of the hearing
to modify their initial recommendations. The said public
hearing shall be advertised in a newspaper of general
circulation in the area affected once in each of the two
successive weeks immediately prior to the hearing. In no
event shall an electric company construct, or be authorized
by the Commission to construct, such an overhead
transmission line in line with, and within one mile of,
either end of any public airport runway, unless the Federal
Aviation Administration has determined that the construction
of such overhead transmission line will not constitute a
hazard to air navigation and such determination has been
concurred in by the State Aviation Administration. A
privately owned airport runway shall qualify as a public
airport .runway within the meaning of this section only when
it shall have been on file with the Federal Aviation
Administration for a period of two years as being open to
the public without restriction.

As used in this section and § 54B herein, the term
"construction" is defined to include any clearing of land,
excavation, or other action that would affect the- natural
environment of the site or route of bulk power supply
facilities, but does not include changes needed for
temporary use of sites or routes for nonutility purposes, or
uses in securing geological data, including necessary
borings to ascertain foundation conditions.

54AB.

(A) IN THIS SECTION, "HIGH LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTES"

MEANS:

(1) SPENT NUCLEAR REACTOR FUEL;

(2) LIQUID WASTES RESULTING FROM THE OPERATION
OF THE FIRST CYCLE SOLVENT EXTRACTION SYSTEM, OR ITS
EQUIVALENT, AND THE CONCENTRATED WASTES FROM SUBSEQUENT
EXTRACTION CYCLES, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, IN A FACILITY FOR
REPROCESSING SPENT NUCLEAR REACTOR FUEL; OR

(3) SOLIDS INTO WHICH LIQUID WASTES, AS PROVIDED
IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION, HAVE BEEN CONVERTED.