HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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RESOLVED, That the Department of Natural Resources
shall provide the necessary staff for the Commission Study;
and be it further

RESOLVED, That the findings and recommendations of the
Maryland Water Supply and Conservation Commission report its
findings and recommendations Study be submitted to the
Governor and General Assembly by July 1, 1982; and be it
further

RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to the
Honorable Harry Hughes, Governor of Maryland; the Honorable
Benjamin Cardin, Speaker of the House of Delegates; the
Honorable James Clark, President of the Senate of Maryland;
James B. Coulter, Secretary of the Department of Natural
Resources, Tawes State Office Building, Annapolis, Maryland
21401; Wayne A. Cawley, Jr., Secretary of the Department of
Agriculture, Parole Plaza Office Building, Annapolis,
Maryland 21401; Charles R. Buck, Jr., Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene, 5th Floor, 201 W. Preston Street,
Baltimore, Maryland 21201; Constance Lieder, Secretary of
the Department of State Planning, 301 W. Preston Street,
Baltimore, Maryland 21201; James O. Roberson, Secretary of
the Department of Economic and Community Development, 2525
Riva Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.

Signed May 12, 1981.

No. 20

(House Joint Resolution No. 50)

A House Joint Resolution concerning

Balanced Federalism

FOR the purpose of urging the Congress of the United States
and the Administration of President Reagan to take
certain steps to restore balanced federalism a proper
balance to our federal system in the United States.

WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United States created
a federal system of government in which power is distributed
shared between the national government and the several
states; and

WHEREAS, The federal system has become overloaded in
recent years, as demonstrated by the proliferation of more
than 500 categorical grant programs that either bypass the
states or treat them as administrative arms of the national
government, and by the widespread conviction that federal
programs are unmanageable, ineffective, costly, confusing,
and unaccountable to the public; and