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(D)  THE CONCESSIONS MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION
SHALL ADVISE THE SECRETARY OF NATURAL RESOURCES ON ANY PLANS
PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CONCESSIONS MANAGEMENT
PROPOSALS ON LANDS ADMINISTERED BY THE DEPARTMENT.

(E)  THE GOVERNOR SHALL SUBMIT THE PROPOSED PLAN AND
PROGRAM, AND ANY PERIODIC UPDATING, TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF MARYLAND NOT LATER THAN THE TENTH DAY OF THE NEXT REGULAR
LEGISLATIVE SESSION, FOR APPROVAL BY JOINT RESOLUTION.
SHOULD THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FAIL TO ENACT A JOINT RESOLUTION
APPROVING OR AMENDING THE PROPOSED PLAN AND PROGRAM BEFORE
THE END OF THE SESSION, IT SHALL STAND APPROVED AS
SUBMITTED. DURING THE INTERIM THE PROPOSED PLANS OR
PROGRAMS SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE LEGISLATIVE POLICY
COMMITTEE FOR APPROVAL.

(F) EACH CONCESSION FACILITY PROPOSED FOR A FISCAL
YEAR, REGARDLESS OF THE SOURCE OF FUNDING OF THE FACILITY,
SHALL BE INCLUDED IN THE ANNUAL GENERAL CONSTRUCTION LOAN
FOR THAT FISCAL YEAR WHICH IS SUBMITTED TO THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY FOR ITS CONSIDERATION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

May 19, 1981
The Honorable James Clark, Jr.
President of the Senate
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Dear Mr. President:

Senate Bill 624 authorizes the Department of Natural
Resources to enter into concession management agreements to
provide public concession facilities that enhance the
recreational use of the lands administered by the
Department. As amended, the bill entails a rather involved
process of review and approval before an agreement may be
effective.

As originally introduced, the bill proposed a
relatively simple program to seek private investment in
concession facilities while providing procedural safeguards,
including review and comment from local representatives, to
assure that the construction or operation of a facility
proposed under the program would not cause over
commercialization of the public land involved and otherwise
would be in the public's best interest. I think that the
bill in its original form was a fair attempt to accomplish a
laudable goal. The bill, however, was extensively amended.

Included among the amendments, under § 5-210.1(e) of
the Natural Resources Article, is a provision that provides: