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s1O,797, s54 POSTWAR
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Governor Herbert r. O'Conor has
made public a $10,797,954 Recon-
mended State Postwar Construction
Program which the Committee ON
Public Activities of the Maryland
Commission on Postwar Recon
struction and Development present
ed to Chairman Roy Barton White
of the Commission, October 81.
In line with assurances from Gov
ernor O'Conor that funds for prepar-
alton for architectural and engineer
ing plans are now available from the
100000 Postwar Appropriation
Of the 1943 General Assembly, the
subcommittee chairman, E. Brooke
Lee, is proposing that such plans be
initiated at once, covering the en-
tire recommended program.
The Committee on Public Activ-
tiles has held three meetings, Gov
ernor O'Conor said, and has based
the present group of recommended
construction projects on the results
of studies made by the Maryland
State Planning Commission and the
Department of Budget and Procure
ment. With architectural and engi-
neering plans completed, he declared,
this program will help greatly to-
wards the creation of worthwhile
backlog of needed public improve
ments that can be initiated prompt
ly after the war ends, or whenever
employment conditions render such
projects desirable.
Governor O'Conor pointed out that
the $7,O00,000 worth of recommend
ed public building construction list
ed as Glass Argent in the State
Planning Commission and Budget De-
partment Report actually were need
ed when the General Assembly met
this year and would, under normal
conditions, have been built in 1913
A with the proceeds of bond issues
which would customarily have been
approved by the 1943 session.
In second group, "Class B-De-
sirable," public construction totaling
$3,5OO,O0O was listed as likely to be
needed in 1945. This program nor
mally would have been presented to
the 1945 Legislature and If times
were normal, would be under con-
struction that year.
A third section of the Report,
Governor O'Conor added, put in
"Class CT a number of proposed pub,
lie buildings totaling $7,635,000 of
defined as "deferable. This repre-
sented improvements that were de-
sirable when the Report was prepar-
ed and, that likely would be needed
by the time the General Assembly
met in 1947, to take care of normal
growth Of population and consequent
needed expansion of hospitals and
other State institutions.
OF this approximately $18,000,000
of recommended projects, the Cover
nor pointed out, the Committee, at.
ter lengthy discussions at its three
meetings, voted to recon m d
prompt preparation of architectural
and engineering plans for all the
buildings listed as "Class A-Ur-
gent" as well as those in "Class b
Desirable"
In anticipation of greatly in
creased demands on educational ia
cilities, following the return of the
many young men now in military
services, Governor O'Conor added,
the Committee also voted to approve
preparation Of plans now for con-
struction listed for the University
of Maryland, College Park, at the
Baltimore schools, and at Princess
Anne, all of which were listed in the
State Planning Commission and Bud
get Department Report as "Class C
l-Deferrable."