LRB-0984/P3
ZDW:amn
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Frederick, BB0134 - Environmental bonding changes
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
environment
Water quality
This bill increases the authorized general obligation bonding limit for DNR to fund nonpoint source water pollution abatement projects by $5,900,000 and to provide financial assistance for projects that manage urban storm water and runoff and for flood control and riparian restoration projects by $3,000,000 and for projects that increase dam safety, including projects to maintain, repair, or remove a dam, by $4,000,000.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.866 (2) (tf) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.866 (2) (tf) Natural resources; nonpoint source. From the capital improvement fund, a sum sufficient for the department of natural resources to fund nonpoint source water pollution abatement projects under s. 281.65 (4c) and (4e). The state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed $37,900,000 $43,800,000 for this purpose.
Section
2. 20.866 (2) (th) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.866
(2) (th)
Natural resources; urban nonpoint source cost-sharing. From the capital improvement fund, a sum sufficient for the department of natural resources to provide cost-sharing grants for urban nonpoint source water pollution abatement and storm water management projects under s. 281.66, to provide municipal flood control and riparian restoration cost-sharing grants under s. 281.665, and to make the grant under
2007 Wisconsin Act 20, section
9135 (1i). The state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed
$49,900,000 $52,900,000 for this purpose. Of this amount, $500,000 is allocated in fiscal biennium 2001-03 for dam rehabilitation grants under s. 31.387.
Section
3. 20.866 (2) (tx) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.866 (2) (tx) Natural resources; dam safety projects. From the capital improvement fund, a sum sufficient for the department of natural resources to provide financial assistance to counties, cities, villages, towns, and public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts for dam safety projects under s. 31.385. The state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed $21,500,000 $25,500,000 for this purpose.
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