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waterways pollution, and wildlife conservation. It
also conducts boating and hunting safety educa-
tional programs.
The Force operates the Natural Resources Po-
lice Academy at Matapeake, a central mainte-
nance and supply facility, and an aviation unit to
provide airborne surveillance and rescue services
to the enforcement programs and other agencies
of the Department of Natural Resources.
The Marine Division includes Headquarters,
Communications, and Field Force Sections.
Among its other duties, it recovers stolen or lost
boats and stolen outboard motors, renders other
water-oriented assistance to the boating public,
including delivery of emergency messages, regatta
patrols, towing disabled vessels into ports, remov-
al of persons from the water, first aid administra-
tion, searching for missing boats, fire fighting on
boats, engine repairs, and refloating of boats
grounded on shoals.
The Inland Division of the Natural Resources
Police Force is charged with the responsibility of
enforcing all laws and regulations relative to the
protection and preservation of wildlife and with
the welfare and safety of the citizenry. It appre-
hends persons for violations of the fish, game,
boating, and litter laws and regulations.
The Inland Officers assist Wildlife Law En-
forcement officials in contiguous states in the ap-
prehension of game and fish violators, assist State
and local police in the apprehension of felons,
and search for persons reported as lost or miss-
ing. They also search for and recover drowning
victims, relay emergency information to hunters
and fishermen, render assistance to boaters, and
recover drifting unmanned boats.
Thousands of people receive firearms training
and hunter safety instruction each year.
Units manned by the Force include patrol
boats, runabouts, vehicles, and one twin-engine
amphibian aircraft.
The Force inspects boats for conservation and
boating violations. It also inspects seafood pro-
cessing houses and trucks carrying seafood cargo.
It makes arrests and issues warnings for viola-
tions of boating and conservation laws. The
Force also investigates boating accidents and re-
ports them to the U.S. Coast Guard.
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ENERGY ADMINISTRATION
Dr. Paul Massicot, Director
Tawes State Office Building
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-2788
This Administration, created by order of the
Secretary of the Department of Natural Re-
sources on July 1, 1979, and originally incorpo-
rated into the Department as part of the Energy
and Coastal Zone Administration by Chapter
320, Acts of 1976, includes all energy-related
agencies in the Department of Natural Resources.
The common purpose of these agencies is to eval-
uate the production and conservation of energy
while keeping adverse environmental and fiscal ef-
fects to a minimum.
The three operating programs within the Ad-
ministration are Power Plant Siting and Research,
Bureau of Mines, and the Maryland Energy Of-
fice. These programs accomplish their tasks main-
ly through special and federal monies.
The Power Plant Siting Program, created by
Chapter 31, Acts of 1971, is responsible for the
administration of a long-range electric power
plant environmental research program, assessing
the impact of existing power plants, evaluating
proposed sites, and acquiring standby sites for a
land bank. Site evaluations calculate the impact
of future power plants at proposed sites. The site
evaluation work forms the basis of program rec-
ommendations to the Public Service Commission
for conditions relating to the design, construction,
and operation of power plants that are necessary
for the protection of the environment.
Research develops the understanding of Mary-
land's environmental resources and socio-econom-
ic structure necessary to site and operate power
plants successfully with a maximum benefit to so-
ciety and minimum detriment to the ecosystem.
Site acquisition identifies, investigates, acquires,
and holds in a land bank an inventory of sites
suitable for the construction and operation of
power plants.
The Bureau of Mines has two distinct areas of
responsibility: environmental control of active
mines and restoration of abandoned mines.
Active Mines: The Bureau evaluates mining
plans for proposed deep and strip coal mines. En-
vironmental controls are established and reclama-
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