S.B. 893                                                   VETOES

(f) Execute the powers and perform the duties set forth in Subtitle 7 of this title,
including the financing, acquisition, leasing, and operation of hazardous waste disposal
facilities.

3-106.

(a)     The director, after consultation with the Secretary of Natural Resources, the
Secretary of the Environment, the Director of Planning, and the municipalities affected,
shall determine appropriate boundaries for water supply service regions, wastewater
purification service regions, and solid waste disposal service regions. Service regions shall
be based upon needs set forth in, and provide integration of, approved. State-county
master plans for water and sewerage or solid waste disposal, adopted pursuant to the
Environment Article, but also may take account of other plans and studies.

(b)     As soon as possible after the determination of appropriate boundaries, the
director, after consultation with the municipalities affected, shall establish priorities for
designating water supply service regions, wastewater purification service regions, and
solid waste disposal service regions and formally designate the regions.

(c)     Identical service regions need not be designated for water supply, wastewater
purification and solid waste disposal projects. [However, every part of the State shall be
included in one of the service regions established in the State for water supply,
wastewater purification, and solid waste disposal.] No part of the State may be included
in more than one of these service regions.

. (d) As soon as possible after designation of a service region, the Service shall
cause surveys, plans, studies, and estimates to be made, and after consultation with the
municipalities located within the service region, prepare a five-year plan for each service
region for the most effective and economical means of providing water supply, wastewater
purification and solid waste disposal projects. In preparing a five-year plan, the Service
shall consider the effects of public versus private ownership of water and wastewater
facilities upon the provision of dependable, effective, and efficient water and wastewater
services. The five-year plans shall give due consideration to the need for water supply and
wastewater purification projects included in the approved county water and sewerage
plans adopted in compliance with Title 9 of the Environment Article. The five-year plans
shall designate the existing facilities or portions that are to be transferred to the
jurisdiction of the Service; improvements to and extension of existing facilities;
construction of new water supply, wastewater purification, and solid waste disposal
projects; proposed methods of acquisition, ownership, and operation by the Service or by
affected municipalities and persons, or both together with anticipated expenditures,
sources of revenue, and charges for projects to be levied against municipalities and
persons; and related matters the Service finds necessary or convenient.

(e) The Service may adopt a five-year plan only after at least one public hearing
in each of the counties affected. At least 60 days before a hearing, the proposed five-year
plan shall be submitted for review and comment to each county, [and person against
whom charges will be levied if the plan is adopted,] to each municipality which owns or
operates a public facility affected by the plan, and to the Secretaries of Natural Resources
and the Environment and the Director of Planning. A five-year plan can be adopted by
the Service only after it is submitted to and approved by resolution of the governing body

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