This report addresses the activities of the Department of Transportation for Fiscal Year 1996, the period from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1996.
Sincerely,
charles h. thompson
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources
September 11, 1996
The Honorable, The Legislature:
We at the Department of Natural Resources are pleased to provide you with a copy of our annual Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act (WEPA) report. In fulfillment of Section
1.11(2)(j) of the state statutes, this document provides information on the numbers of environmental assessments (EA's) and environmental impact statements (EIS's) completed by the Department in the past fiscal year.
Questions about the report can be directed to George Albright, Chief of the Environmental Analysis and Liaison Section, Bureau of Integrated Science Services, phone 6-6437.
Sincerely,
george e. meyer
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Systems
September 10, 1996
The Honorable, The Legislature:
RE: Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act
The University of Wisconsin System is pleased to provide you with our annual Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act (WEPA) report. In fulfillment of Section
1.11 (2)(j),
Wisconsin Statutes, this document provides information on the numbers of environmental assessments (EA's) and environmental impact statements (EIS's) completed in the past fiscal year.
This report addresses the activities of the University of Wisconsin System for the period from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1996.
Questions regarding this report should be directed to Gary Brown, UW System Environmental Impact Officer. Gary may be reached at 263-4417.
Sincerely,
katharine C. Lyall
President
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
September 17, 1996
To the Honorable the Senate:
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At the direction of ss.13.685(7), Wisconsin Statutes, I am furnishing you with the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board that employ one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules, and notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers. For each recently registered organization I have included the organization's description of the general area of legislative or administrative action that it attempts to influence and the name of each licensed lobbyist that the organization has authorized to act on its behalf.
Organization recently registered:
Below is the name of an organization recently registered with the Ethics Board as employing one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules.
Charter Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Legislation to allow individuals, shareholders in tax-option corporations and partners to claim the income tax and franchise tax credit for sales taxes and use taxes paid on fuel and electricity that are used in manufacturing.
Christianson, Peter C.
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board as employers of lobbyists have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
Petroleum Marketers Assn of Wisconsin & Wisconsin Assn of Convenience Stores, Inc
Oakley, Kara
Public Power Inc SYSTEM, Wisconsin
Hilbert, Lisa
Organization's cessation of lobbying activity:
The following organization previously registered with the Ethics Board as an employer of lobbyists has indicated a cessation of all lobbying activity effective on the date shown.
Strong Capital Management, Inc. 9/9/96
Dragisic, John 9/9/96
Lemke, Thomas 9/9/96
Weitzer, John 9/9/96
Mulcahy, Charles 9/9/96
Hagerup, Chris 9/9/96
Elliott, Brian 9/9/96
Also available from the Wisconsin Ethics Board are reports identifying the amount and value of time state agencies have spent to affect legislative action and reports of expenditures for lobbying activities filed by the organizations that employ lobbyists.
Sincerely,
R. Roth Judd
Executive Director
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
September 12, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Lombard, Dennis L.,
of Manitowoc, as a member of the Credit Union Review Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2001.
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Agriculture, Transportation, Utilities and Financial Institutions.
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
September 5, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
This is to inform you that I am withdrawing the nomination of Mr. J. David Christenson for appointment to the Credit Union Review Board.
Mr. Christenson has notified my office that he is unable to accept the nomination at this time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Tommy G. Thompson
Governor
executive order #294
Relating to the Amendment of Executive Order #289
WHEREAS, the Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on 21st Century Jobs ("Commission") was created on July 1, 1996 by Executive Order #289; and
WHEREAS, Executive Order #289 fixed the size of the Commission at twenty-five (25) members; and
WHEREAS, the need exists to expand the membership of the Commission beyond twenty-five (25);
NOW, THEREFORE, I, TOMMY G. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of this State, and specifically by Section
14.019 of the Wisconsin Statutes, do hereby amend paragraph 2) of Executive Order#289 as follows:
2) Provide that the Commission shall consist of not more than thirty (30) members appointed by the Governor and that the Governor shall designate one member as chair.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the city of Madison this fifth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six.
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
executive order #296
Relating to a Proclamation that the Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State of Wisconsin be Flown Half-Staff as a Mark of Respect for the Late Corporal Richard G. Parquette of the Bayfield County Sheriff's Department
WHEREAS, on the morning of September 10, 1996, Corporal Richard G. Parquette was killed in the line of duty; and
WHEREAS, Corporal Parquette served the people of Bayfield County and the people of Wisconsin with distinction and honor;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, TOMMY G. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by Federal and State law, do hereby order that the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin shall be flown at half-staff at all buildings, grounds and military installations of the State of Wisconsin equipped with such flags beginning forthwith until sundown on September 13, 1996.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the city of Madison this eleventh day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six.
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
