Wednesday, September 30, 1998
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
September 11, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
1991 Wisconsin Act 273 created section 1.11(2)(j), Wis. Stats., which requires the submittal of an annual report to the chief clerk of each house of the Legislature by September 15 regarding the preparation of environmental assessments and environmental impact statements.
I am submitting the attached report prepared by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection for fiscal year 1998 to comply with this requirement.
Please contact Buzz Davis of my staff at 224-4593 if there are any questions regarding the report.
Sincerely,
Ben Brancel
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources
September 14, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
I am pleased to send you this report on the Future Funding for Recycling in Wisconsin. The report responds to the 1997-99 budget directive to the DNR to look at the alternatives for continuing the funding of recycling programs through the year 2004. Though the report is not due until December 31, 1998, I felt it was important to have this report finished and the alternatives available for discussion at the earliest possible date.
This report was prepared by a work group consisting of DNR and UW-Extension staff. Work group members relied on material prepared for the Legislative Council Special Committee on the Future of Recycling for much of the background for this report. The work group publicized and held a public meeting attended by thirty interested parties and accepted written comments for over six weeks before finalizing their report.
Based on their feedback, it became clear that there was no consensus among the various interested parties about the best approach to take. The work group decided that a reasonable course of action would be to lay out the most viable options and present them to you for consideration. Those options appear under the "Analysis of Alternatives" section.
If you have any comments or questions about this report please direct them to me, Sue Bangert, Director of Waste Management, (608-266-0014), or Kathy Curtner, Director of the Bureau of Community Financial Assistance, (608-266-0860). Thank you.
Sincerely,
George E. Meyer
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Groundwater Coordinating Council
August, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
This is the 1998 Groundwater Coordinating Council (GCC) Report to the Legislature. The GCC was formed in 1984 to help state agencies coordinate non-regulatory activities and exchange information on groundwater. The GCC has served as a model for interagency coordination and cooperation among state government officials, the Governor, local government and federal government. It has achieved the distinction of being one of the few groups in the nation to effectively coordinate groundwater activities in its state from an advisory position.
We hope you, your staff, and the public will find this report a useful reference in protecting Wisconsin's valuable groundwater resource.
Sincerely,
Susan L. Sylvester, Chair
Groundwater Coordinating Council
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
September 15, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate:
At the direction of s.
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's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
Consolidated Papers Inc.
Laatsch, Timothy
Termination of lobbying authorizations:
The following individuals are no longer authorized to lobby on behalf of the organizations listed below, as of the dates indicated.
Journal Communications Inc.
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Remsik, Jeffrey J 9/14/98
Nature Conservancy
Cieslewicz, David 9/14/98
Rural Water Assn., Wisconsin
Selchert, Robert 9/8/98
School Administrators, Assn. of Wisconsin
Laatsch, Timothy 9/9/98
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,
Roth Judd
