HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(a)  Not more than $7,000,000 may be used to provide a
State grant to repay costs incurred in construction, construction
inspection, and financing of the expansion and upgrading of
sewage treatment capacity at the Princess Anne Wastewater
Treatment Plant to replace capacity to be used by the Eastern
Correctional Institution.

(b)  The remainder of the proceeds shall be credited
to the Water Pollution Control Fund and expended, as authorized
under Title 9, Subtitle 3, Part VI of the Health Environmental
Article of the Code and subject to the further limitations of
this Act, for the following purposes:

(i) Proceeds may be used to provide grants to
assist in the construction of publicly-owned sewage treatment
works;

(ii) Not For FY 1987, not more than $5,000,000
may be used to provide grants for projects to remove nitrogen at
publicly-owned sewage treatment works; however, it is the intent
of the General Assembly that this allocation for nitrogen
removal shall be identified and adjusted annually to provide for
future capital needs as identified in an agreement between
Montgomery County, Prince George's County, the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), and the State of Maryland;

(iii) Not more than $5,000,000 may be used to
provide grants for projects to control agriculturally-related
nonpoint sources of water pollution; however, not more than
$1,000,000 of this amount may be expended for projects on public
lands; and

(iv) Not more than $1,000,000 may be used to
provide grants for projects to reduce pollution from stormwater
runoff in existing urban areas : .

(4) An annual State tax is imposed on all assessable
property in the State in rate and amount sufficient to pay the
principal of and interest on the bonds, as and when due and until
paid in full. The principal shall be discharged within 15 years
after the date of issue of the bonds.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 1(3)(e)
of Chapter 568 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1983, as
amended by Chapter 796 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
1984, be and it is hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments
to read as follows:

Chapter 568 of the Acts of 1983, as amended by

Chapter 796 of the Acts of 1984

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