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(vii) The St. Mary's County Nursing
Home[.]; AND

(VIII) THE MARYLAND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That membership
in the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland
remains limited to persons who joined that system prior to
January 1, 1980.

SECTION 2 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 364

(House Bill 462)

AN ACT concerning

State Standby Petroleum Fuel Set-Aside

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Natural
Resources to establish and maintain a standby petroleum
fuel set-aside program for use during an energy
emergency; specifying the maximum set-aside percentage
level for each type of fuel; specifying the activities
for which set-aside fuel can be made available;
authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to

promulgate rules and regulations governing the

set aside program; authorizing the Department to
collect certain information from prime suppliers during
an energy emergency; requiring suppliers to provide
set-aside product to applicants as authorized by the
Department; providing for expedited procedures for
appealing actions of the Department related to the
set-aside program during an energy emergency;
authorizing the Department to require prime suppliers
to release set-aside product into an area which has
been designated by the Governor as suffering from an
intrastate supply imbalance; requiring any State
set-aside program to be consistent with a federal
set-aside program if one is in effect; providing for
certain civil and criminal penalties; providing that
this statute terminates on July 1, 1987; and relating
generally to the establishment of a standby petroleum
fuel set-aside.