WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 123

(b)  Except as provided in subsection (5)(c) below, a
grant may not exceed 50% of the eligible costs of the work
proposed in the grant application.

(c)  A grant to a municipality for a facility or
system that will serve a State institution or agency, that will
serve regional needs, or that will incorporate a waste-to-energy
or recycling component may cover 100% of the eligible costs of the
work proposed.

(d)  Total grants for a single facility or system may
not exceed $700,000 except that total grants for a facility or
system that will serve regional needs or that will incorporate a
waste-to-energy or recycling component may not exceed $1,000,000.

(e)  All financial assistance provided under this Act
shall be in the form of reimbursable grants. In the event that
funds provided under this Act are used for the engineering,
financial or legal analyses or design of a facility or system
which is constructed or implemented, then the recipient of the
funds shall repay those funds to the State. The amount repaid
shall be limited to the amount provided under this Act for the
engineering, financial or legal analyses or design actually
incorporated into the facility or system which is constructed or

implemented. If a facility or system is not constructed or

implemented, then funds provided under this Act shall be deemed a
grant grants which shall be repaid by the recipients of the
funds.

(f)  Financial assistance may be provided under this
Act only for a facility or system of a municipality, and only if
the municipality and the Maryland Environmental Service execute
an agreement that is designed to assure compliance by the
municipality with the purposes and terms of this Act.

(g)  Each application for financial assistance under
this Act shall be submitted to the Maryland Environmental
Service. Copies of the application shall be submitted by the
applicant to the Departments of the Environment and State
Planning.

(h) The Maryland Environmental Service, in
consultation with the Departments of the Environment and State
Planning, shall periodically prepare and submit to the Board of
Public Works a list of pending applications for financial
assistance under this Act, together with a recommendation for the
priority and amount of funding of each application. High funding
priorities shall be assigned to facilities or systems that will
serve regional needs, that will incorporate waste-to-energy or
recycling components or other innovative or alternate solutions
to solid waste management problems, or that are necessary to
avoid a critical loss of solid waste disposal capability. The

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