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1. Protecting or improving the ways in which rivers are used.
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2. Protecting or improving the quality of water in rivers.
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3. Protecting or improving the quality of natural riverine ecosystems.
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4. Protecting or improving fish populations, aquatic life or fish habitat in rivers.
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(c) Designate activities that are eligible for grants for management projects.
11Eligible activities under the rules for these grants shall include all of the following:
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1. The purchase of land or of a conservation easement, as defined in s. 700.40
13(1) (a) if the recipient enters into a contract under s. 281.71 and if the purchase will
14substantially contribute to the protection or improvement of the river's water quality
15or its natural ecosystem.
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2. The restoration of in-stream or shoreline habitat.
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3. The development of local regulations or ordinances that will protect or
18improve the river's water quality or its natural ecosystem.
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4. An activity that is approved by the department and that is needed to
20implement a recommendation made as a result of a plan to protect or improve the
21river's water quality or its natural ecosystem.
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5. Installation of pollution control practices.
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23(6) Eligibility; types of rivers. The department shall promulgate rules
24establishing the types of natural riverine ecosystems that are eligible for grants
25under this section.
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1(7) Eligibility; other. At the completion of a planning project, upon request
2of the recipient of the grant for the planning project, the department may approve
3as eligible activities for a management project grant the recommendations that were
4made as a result of the project.
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6281.72 River protection; contracts with nonprofit organizations. (1)
7Definition. In this section, "nonprofit conservation organization" means a river
8management organization that meets the qualifications under s. 281.70 (4) (b) or a
9nonprofit corporation, a charitable trust or other nonprofit association whose
10purposes include the protection of rivers and that is described in section
501 (c) (3)
11of the Internal Revenue Code and is exempt from federal income tax under section
12501 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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13(2) Requirements to receive contracts. The department shall provide
14contracts to nonstock, nonprofit corporations that are described under section
501 15(c) (3) or (4) of the Internal Revenue Code and that are organized in this state. For
16a nonstock, profit corporation to qualify for a contract, the corporation shall meet all
17of the following requirements:
AB133-SSA1,1274,1918(a) The corporation is exempt from taxation under section
501 (a) of the
19Internal Revenue Code.
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(b) The corporation provides support to nonprofit conservation organizations.
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(c) The corporation has a board of directors that has a majority of members who
22are representatives of nonprofit conservation organizations.
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(d) The corporation contributes, to be used with the contract, $1 for every $3
24it receives under the contract.
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1(3) Requirements under contracts. A corporation receiving a contract under
2this subsection shall do all of the following:
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(a) Assist in the establishment of nonprofit conservation organizations.
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(b). Provide technical assistance to nonprofit conservation organizations.
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(c) Conduct conferences on topics for which technical assistance is provided
6under par. (b).
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285.01
(40) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste
9treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and
10other discarded or salvageable materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or
11contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and
12agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solids
13or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation
14return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits
15under ch. 283, or source material, as defined in s. 254.31 (10), special nuclear
16material, as defined in s. 254.31 (11), or by-product material, as defined in s. 254.31
17(3) (1).
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(18) Adopt and apply objective performance measurements, for the
20subunit of the department that administers this chapter, relating to the issuance of
21permits under subch. VII and to overall performance of the subunit.
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(3) The department may not post on the Internet any information that
24is required to be reported to the department under this chapter and that relates to
25a facility's air emissions, including the nature and duration of specific emissions of
1an air contaminant source and any results of monitoring the emissions of a
2contaminant source or the ambient air in the vicinity of a contaminant source, unless
3the department certifies that the information is accurate on the date on which the
4information is posted.
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(2) (a) 1. That fees collected in a year
before 2002 are based on actual
7emissions of all regulated pollutants and any other air contaminant specified by the
8department in the rules in the preceding year.
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(2) (a) 4. That the fees collected in each year after 1994
and before 2002 11are calculated by increasing the fees collected in the preceding year by the percentage
12by which the consumer price index, as defined in
42 USC 7661a (b) (3) (B) (v),
13increased in the preceding year.
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(2) (a) 5. That fees are not based on emissions by an air contaminant
16source in excess of
4,000 5,000 tons per year of each regulated pollutant, except that,
17subject to par. (b), this limitation does not apply to a major utility, as defined in s.
18285.41 (1) (f), that owns or operates a phase I affected unit as listed in Table A of
42
19USC 7651c.
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(2) (a) 7. That the fees billed for a stationary source in each year after
222001 are based on the fees billed for the stationary source in 2001.
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8. That the fee billed for each stationary source in each year after 2001 is based
24on the actual emissions of all regulated pollutants, and any other air contaminant
1specified by the department in the rules, in the preceding 5 years, using a 5-year
2rolling average.
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9. That fees billed in years after 2001 are determined using a
4performance-based approach that increases a stationary source's fees in proportion
5to increases in the amount of pollutants emitted by the stationary source, as
6determined under subd. 8., and decreases a stationary source's fees in proportion to
7decreases in the amount of pollutants emitted by the stationary source, as
8determined under subd. 8.
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10. That no multiplier or similar mechanism is used that would increase a
10stationary source's fees to compensate for decreases in overall amounts of emissions.
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11. That no provision is used that would increase the fee per unit of pollutant
12emitted in order to compensate for decreases in overall amounts of emissions.
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(2) (b) The department may not charge a major utility fees on emissions
15in excess of
4,000 5,000 tons per year of each regulated pollutant beyond the amount
16necessary to recover the fees that would have been charged for any phase I affected
17unit listed in Table A of
42 USC 7651c owned by that major utility if the prohibition
18in par. (a) 6. did not exist.
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(3) Asbestos inspection fees. The department may promulgate rules
21for the payment and collection of fees for inspecting nonresidential asbestos
22demolition and renovation projects regulated by the department. The fees under this
23subsection may not exceed
$200 $210 per project. The fees collected under this
24subsection shall be credited to the appropriation under s. 20.370 (2) (bi) for the direct
1and indirect costs of conducting inspections of nonresidential asbestos demolition
2and inspection projects regulated by the department.
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4285.86 Asbestos citations. (1) The department may follow the procedures
5for the issuance of a citation under ss. 23.50 to 23.99 to collect a forfeiture from a
6person who commits a violation specified under sub. (2).
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7(2) The department shall promulgate rules that specify violations of rules
8relating to asbestos abatement and management that are promulgated under ss.
9285.11, 285.13, 285.17 and 285.27 to which sub. (1) applies. In a rule promulgated
10under this subsection, the department may limit the applicability of sub. (1) based
11on the frequency of violation and on health and environmental risks caused by the
12violation.
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13(3) The department shall submit any proposed rules under sub. (2) to the
14department of justice. The department may not promulgate a rule under sub. (2)
15unless the rule is approved by the department of justice.
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(5) (c) 2. Except as provided in subd.
5. 2m. or sub. (5e), for all other
19responsible units, the amount of the grant for 1993 through
2000 2001 equals either
2066% of the difference between eligible expenses and avoided disposal costs or
33% of
21eligible expenses, whichever is greater.
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222m. If the amount determined under subd. 2. is greater than $8 times the
23population of the responsible unit,
whichever is less
the grant equals $8 times the
24population of the responsible unit.
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(5e) Proration. If available funds are insufficient, under sub. (5) (c)
2. 32m., to pay $8 times the population of all of the responsible units that are entitled
4to that amount, the department shall distribute the funds so that each responsible
5unit that would be entitled to $6 times its population if the per person amount in sub.
6(5) (c)
2. 2m. were $6 receives $6 times its population and shall prorate the remaining
7funds.
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(7) Sunset. No grant may be awarded under this section for any year
10after the year
2000 2001.
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(33) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste
13treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and
14other discarded or salvageable materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or
15contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and
16agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solids
17or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation
18return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits
19under ch. 283, or source material, as defined in s. 254.31 (10), special nuclear
20material, as defined in s. 254.31 (11), or by-product material, as defined in s. 254.31
21(3) (1).
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23289.54 Disposal of certain dredged materials. (1) In this section, "PCBs"
24has the meaning given in s. 299.45 (1) (a).
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1(2) The department may not approve a request by the operator of a solid waste
2disposal facility to accept dredged materials that contain PCBs or heavy metals in
3a concentration of less than 50 parts per million for disposal in the solid waste
4disposal facility until after the department holds a public meeting in the city, village
5or town in which the solid waste disposal facility is located. At the public meeting,
6the department shall describe the nature of the requested disposal and shall solicit
7public comment.
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(2) (b) 1. A generator of hazardous waste shall pay a base fee of
$125 10$210 if the generator has generated more than zero pounds in that particular year,
11plus
$12 $20 per ton of hazardous waste generated during the reporting year.
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2. No generator may pay a fee that is greater than
$10,000 $17,000.
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(3) The department shall study whether the list of hazardous wastes
15under s. 291.05 (2) should be revised as it relates to commercial chemical products.
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(7) (d) 1m. The department may negotiate and enter into an agreement
18containing a schedule for conducting nonemergency actions required under sub. (3)
19with a local governmental unit, as defined in sub. (9) (e) 1., that is acting on behalf
20of owners of contaminated property within one of the following:
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a. A business improvement district, as defined in s. 66.608 (1) (b).
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b. An area designated by the local governmental unit if the area consists of 2
23or more properties affected by a contiguous region of groundwater contamination or
24contains 2 or more properties that are brownfields, as defined in s. 560.60 (1v).
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(7) (d) 2. The department may charge fees, in accordance with rules that
2it promulgates, to offset the costs of negotiating and entering into an agreement
3under subd. 1
. or 1m.
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(9) (e) 1.
"Local In this paragraph, "local governmental unit" means a
6municipality, a redevelopment authority created under s. 66.431, a public body
7designated by a municipality under s. 66.435 (4)
, a community development
8authority or a housing authority.
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9Section
2573. 292.11 (9) (e) 1m. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
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(9) (e) 1m. (intro.)
A Except as provided in subds. 2., 4., 6. and 7., a local
11governmental unit is exempt from subs. (3), (4) and (7) (b) and (c) with respect to
12discharges of hazardous substances on or originating from property acquired by the
13local government unit
before, on or after the effective date of this subdivision ....
14[revisor inserts date], if any of the following applies:
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(9) (e) 1m. b. The local governmental unit acquired the property from
17a local governmental unit that
acquired is exempt under this subdivision with
18respect to the property
under a method described in subd. 1m. a.
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(9) (e) 1m. e. The local governmental unit acquired the property through
21escheat.
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(9) (e) 1m. f. The local governmental unit acquired the property using
24funds appropriated under s. 20.866 (2) (tz).
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(9) (e) 1s.
An Except as provided in subds. 2. and 4. to 6., an economic
2development corporation described in section
501 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code,
3as defined in s. 71.22 (4), that is exempt from federal taxation under section
501 (a)
4of the Internal Revenue Code, or an entity wholly owned and operated by such a
5corporation, is exempt from subs. (3), (4) and (7) (b) and (c) with respect to property
6acquired before, on or after October 14, 1997, if the property is acquired to further
7the economic development purposes that qualify the corporation as exempt from
8federal taxation.
