Ch. 311

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(v) The acquisition of land for any facility
delineated in subparagraphs (4)(i), (4)(ii), and (4)(iii) of this
subsection;

(5)  The purchase, construction, or installation of
machinery, equipment, or a facility for utilizing groundwater as
a heat source for a heating system or as a heat sink for an air
conditioning system;

(6)  The purchase, construction, or installation of
machinery, equipment, or any facility for the development and
utilization of natural heat of the earth, or the energy, in
whatever form, below the surface of the earth present in,
resulting from, or created by, or which may be extracted from,
this natural heat, to provide useful energy in the form of heat
for direct use or for generation of electricity;

(7)  The purchase, construction, and installation of a
hydroelectric facility that is located at the site of an existing
dam, which facility uses the water power potential of the dam,
and which facility has not more than 30,000 kilowatts of
installed capacity;

(8)  (i) The construction of any fuel production
facility for the purpose of commercial production of a gaseous,
liquid, or solid fuel, or of a combination of these fuels, which
can be used as a substitute for petroleum or natural gas (or any
derivatives thereof, including chemical feedstocks) and which is
produced by chemical or physical transformation of coal or
mixtures of coal and other materials. The project may include
only:

1.  The fuel production facility,
including the equipment, plant, machinery, supplies and other
materials associated with the fuel production facility;

2.  The land and mineral rights required
directly for use in connection with the fuel production facility;

3.  Any other facility or equipment to be
used in the extraction of a mineral for use directly and
exclusively in the fuel production facility:

A.  Which is co-located with the fuel
production facility or is located in the immediate vicinity of
the fuel production facility; or, if not co-located or located in
the immediate vicinity, is incidental to the project (except in
the event of a coal mine where no other reasonable source of coal
is available to the project); and

B.  Which is necessary to the project; and

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