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Whereas, the Allen Report, designing a master plan for park
development in Harford County has identified the Sod Run area of
the Bush River as an ideal waterfront property for public bathing
and other recreational activities; and

Whereas, since the completion of the Allen Report this Sod Run
property has been acquired by the Baltimore Gas and Electric Com-
pany for the purpose of constructing facilities for the generation and
transmission of electrical energy; and

Whereas, the Baltimore Regional Planning Council has adopted
a resolution which reads in part as follows:

Be it therefore resolved, That the Regional Planning Council (1)
finds the construction of this plant to be consistent with Suggested
General Development Plan for the Baltimore Region adopted by the
Council on September 15, 1967, and (2) urges that the recreation
potential along the waterfront portion of the remaining part of the
site, as shown on the Suggested General Development Plan, be recog-
nized in the future for this purpose; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the County
Commissioners of Harford County seek the cooperation of the Balti-
more Gas and Electric Company in making the Sod Run area of the
Bush River in Harford County a public recreational area; and be it
further

Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to the County Com-
missioners of Harford County, the Board of Parks and Recreation
of Harford County, and the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company.

Approved April 22, 1970.

No. 30
(Senate Joint Resolution 35)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the Legislative Council to study
possibilities for securing scientific and technological information
for the General Assembly of Maryland.

The members of the General Assembly of Maryland are keenly
aware of the desirability and necessity for their having a ready
source of access to scientific and technological information.

More and more often the General Assembly is faced with deci-
sions which in whole or in part could be expedited by the avail-
ability of information in areas concerning the physical sciences. It
would be of much help to the deliberations of this General Assembly
if it had some office or agency from which it could secure scientific
and technological information.

One possibility for such assistance would be from the National
Scientific Foundation. Recently the NSF raised the question with
Maryland legislators about possible assistance to them on these
problems.

A number of states have already moved to build up their fund of
information and resources in these scientific areas. Thus in the