LRB-2112/P2
MCP:wlj
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Potts, BB0406 - TMDL Bonding
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Environment
Water quality
1. Local pollution control grants in TMDL watersheds
This bill requires DNR to award grants to municipalities and counties for water pollution control infrastructure projects within watersheds that have a total maximum daily load (TMDL) in effect. A TMDL is the maximum amount of pollutants that an impaired water body can assimilate while still meeting water quality standards. The bill provides for $4,000,000 in general obligation bonding authority for this purpose.
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
. 20.370 (7) (cu) of the statutes is created to read:
20.370 (7) (cu) Principal repayment and interest — water pollution control grants. From the conservation fund, a sum sufficient to reimburse s. 20.866 (1) (u) for the payment of principal and interest costs incurred in providing funds under s. 20.866 (2) (tj) for water pollution control infrastructure project grants under s. 281.54 and to make payments under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a).
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 20.866 (2) (tj) of the statutes is created to read:
20.866 (2) (tj) Natural resources; total maximum daily load grants. From the capital improvement fund, a sum sufficient for the department of natural resources to provide funds for water pollution control infrastructure project grants under s. 281.54. The state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed $4,000,000 for this purpose.
Section
3. 281.54 of the statutes is created to read:
281.54 Local pollution control grants in TMDL watersheds. The department shall award grants from the appropriation under s. 20.866 (2) (tj) to municipalities and counties for water pollution control infrastructure projects within watersheds for which a federally approved total maximum daily load under
33 USC 1313 (d) (1) (C) is in effect. The department shall promulgate rules for the administration of the program under this section.
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