Ch. 306                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND

(vii) The ability to adequately provide
emergency response plans to residents if a nuclear power plant is
considered for location at a site.

The Secretary shall state to the Public Service Commission
which possible and proposed sites, based on preliminary
environmental statement, justify an unsuitable classification.
Unless the electric company whose proposed site is involved
offers, the Secretary substantial evidence to the contrary, the
site shall be deleted from the plan. The site may be included in
a subsequent ten-year plan.

(3)  The Secretary with the advice of the Secretary of
[Health and Mental Hygiene,] THE ENVIRONMENT shall initiate a
detailed investigation of any site proposed in the ten-year plan
which appears desirable or acceptable on the basis of preliminary
environmental statements. With respect to any site in the plan on
which authorized construction has not commenced by July 1, 1974,
at least two years before construction is estimated to begin and
if the preponderance of newly offered scientific evidence does
not justify a revised classification as unsuitable, the Secretary
shall publish a detailed environmental, statement on the site. The
statement shall consider and include information developed in the
program outlined in § 3-303.

(4)  The Secretary, with the advice of the secretaries
of [Health and Mental Hygiene] THE ENVIRONMENT and State
Planning, shall publish on a biennial basis, commencing July 1,
1972, a cumulative environmental impact report on all electric
power plants operating in the State. The report shall include a
section specifying the changes that can occur as additional
electric power plants are constructed in accordance with the
ten-year plan. It shall include recommendations to the Governor
which delineate State environmental policy and objectives. The
Secretary of State Planning shall include a section devoted
exclusively to the question of growth and the specific growth
related factors which necessitate specific additional increments
of electric energy by development of a site in the ten-year plan.
In preparing this section, he shall consider the projected
estimates and recommendations of electric company
representatives.

3-3A-01.

(a)  In this subtitle the following words have the meanings
indicated.

(b)   "Acid deposition" means the process whereby acid
forming chemical compounds are transported from the atmosphere to
the surface of the earth.

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