ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                         H.B. 1258

1-103.

(b) (1) The Secretary is responsible for the budget of his office and for the
budgets of the units within the Department.

(2) (I) UNLESS OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED BY STATUTE, THE
SECRETARY MAY USE MONEY IN A FUND OR ACCOUNT CREATED UNDER THIS
ARTICLE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES DIRECTLY RELATING TO THE PURPOSES
OF THE FUND OR ACCOUNT UP TO AN AMOUNT CALCULATED UNDER A GENERALLY
ACCEPTED METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING INDIRECT COSTS.

(II) THE SECRETARY SHALL SUBMIT ANY CHANGES TO THE
METHODOLOGY USED UNDER SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH FOR REVIEW
AND COMMENT TO THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AND THE SENATE
BUDGET AND TAXATION COMMITTEE WITHIN 45 DAYS BEFORE IMPLEMENTING THE
METHODOLOGY.

1-702.

(a) There is a State Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species Fund.

1-703.

(a)     (1) The Secretary may distribute not more than 5% of the net proceeds of
the Fund to a promotional account to be used to promote further donations to the
Fund.

(2) MONEYS IN THE FUND MAY BE USED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
CALCULATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH § 1-103(B)(2) OF THIS TITLE.

(b)     After making the [distribution] DISTRIBUTIONS allowed under subsection
(a) of this section, the Secretary shall distribute the remainder of the net proceeds of
the Fund as follows:

(1)     50% to the Chesapeake Bay Trust established under § 8-1901 of this
article, to be used by the Trust only as provided in § 1-704 of this subtitle; and

(2)     50% to an endangered species account, to be used only to conserve
nongame, threatened and endangered species as provided in § 1-705 of this subtitle.

3-302.

(a) There is an Environmental Trust Fund. For the purpose of this subtitle,
there is established as an added cost of electricity distributed to retail electric
customers within the State, an environmental surcharge per kilowatt hour of electric
energy distributed in the State to be paid by any electric company as defined in §
1-101 of the Public Utility Companies Article. The Public Service Commission shall
impose the surcharge per kilowatt hour of electric energy distributed to retail electric
customers within the State and shall authorize the electric companies to add the full
amount of the surcharge to retail electric customers' bills. To the extent that the
surcharge is not collected from retail electric customers, the, surcharge shall be
deemed a cost of distribution and shall be allowed and computed as such, together

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