LRB-1254/P1
MCP:wlj
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hutter, BB0258 - Nonmetallic mining appropriation
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Environment
Mining
Nonmetallic mining appropriation
Under current law, fees relating to nonmetallic mining are deposited into the segregated environmental fund, to be used for environmental management activities. This bill instead directs that all moneys received from nonmetallic mining fees are to be used for the administration and enforcement of the state's nonmetallic mining regulations.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.370 (4) (mq) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.370 (4) (mq) General program operations — environmental fund. From the environmental fund, the amounts in the schedule for administration of environmental activities under subch. II of ch. 295 and chs. 160, 281, 283, 285, and 289 to 293, and 299.
Section
2. 20.370 (9) (gj) of the statutes is created to read:
20.370 (9) (gj) Nonmetallic mining operations. From the general fund, all moneys received under s. 295.15 for the administration of the nonmetallic mining program under subch. I of ch. 295.
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
3. 25.46 (1) (rr) of the statutes is repealed.
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