HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Secretary may submit a revised plan at any time prior to
fourteen days before the end of that regular session. If the
General Assembly, by the adoption of a joint resolution, on
or before the end of that regular session, does not reject
the revised plan, the Secretary may submit the revised plan
to the United States Department of Transportation. If the
General Assembly by adoption of a joint resolution, on or
before the end of that regular session, rejects the revised
plan, the Secretary may not submit the revised plan to the
United States Department of Transportation.

(e) Except as provided in § 108, this section does not
apply to the plans for Section A of Phase I of the rapid
transit system. It does not apply to that part of Phase II
of the system providing for the northern central line
intended to terminate at Cockeysville if that line is
entirely surface light rail.

108.

(a)  The Secretary of Transportation of Maryland shall
obtain an in-depth study, including an independent review by
a qualified consultant, of light rail as an alternative to
heavy rail for Section A of Phase 1 of the rapid rail
transit system in the Baltimore Metropolitan Transit
District, and, if he finds it to be feasible and
appropriate, he shall present to the United States
Department of Transportation a proposal for the design and
construction of Section A of Phase 1 as a light rail system.
The Secretary shall report his findings and those of the
consultant to the committee on or before October 1, 1976.

(b)  The committee shall have the power to review the
study and findings as provided for in subsection (a) of this
section and to make recommendations it deems appropriate to
the General Assembly. The provisions of § 107 (a) through
(d) do not apply to this section.

(c)  The requirement for the study provided for in
subsection (a) of this section shall not preclude the
expenditure from any appropriation for Section A of Phase 1
of the rapid rail transit system prior to the Secretary
reporting the findings of the study to the committee nor
preclude the State of Maryland from accepting the grant of
federal matching funds for Section A of Phase 1 as presently
approved or from executing any documents pertaining thereto
within the time limits set by the United States Department
of Transportation, it being the intent of the General
Assembly that the State preserve and accept the commitment
of federal funds for said Section A of Phase 1, with such
design or construction changes as may thereafter be approved
by the United States Department of Transportation.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s) of
the Annotated Code of Maryland read(s) as follows: