WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 540

3-304.

In cooperation with the Public Service Commission and the
Secretary of the Environment, the Secretary shall implement a
long-range environmental evaluation of power plant building sites
projected for at least 10 years. To facilitate providing adequate
electric power on reasonable schedules at reasonable costs with
the least possible depreciation of the quality of Maryland's
environment, the following responsibilities and procedures are
set forth:

(4) The Secretary, with the advice of the
[Secretaries] SECRETARY of the Environment and [State] THE
DIRECTOR OF 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] DIRECTOR 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.

3-305.

(a) The expertise of the electric utilities in the basic
requirements, including environmental considerations, of a site
for power generation and generator lead route is a needed element
in site selection. Therefore, for the purposes of insuring
adequate power on reasonable schedules while also protecting the
quality of the State's environment, site acquisition and
generator lead route designation may occur as follows:

(1)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this
subtitle, any site either already owned or purchased in the
future by electric companies shall be included in the inventory
of possible and proposed sites.

(2)  The Secretary, on the advice of the Secretary of
Economic and Employment Development, shall acquire in the name of
the State a sufficient number of sites to satisfy the expected
requirements as submitted by the [Secretary] DIRECTOR of [State]
Planning, as provided in § 3-304(4) of this subtitle. Site
selection shall be based on research findings that show the site
is desirable for power plant construction. Following site
acquisition, the Secretary and the local governing bodies of the
areas through which the potential generator lead routes pass
shall designate mutually one or more desirable routes. After

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