LRB-0381/5
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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0162 - Stewardship bonding authority
For 2013-2015 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
natural resources
Other natural resources
Current law authorizes the state to incur public debt for certain conservation activities under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson Stewardship 2000 Program (stewardship program), which is administered by DNR. The state may incur this debt to acquire land for the state for conservation purposes and for property development activities and may award grants or state aid to certain local governmental units and nonprofit conservation organizations to acquire lands for these purposes.
The stewardship program consists of five subprograms. Current law establishes the amounts that DNR may obligate in each fiscal year through fiscal year 2019-20 for expenditure under each of these subprograms. This bill decreases the amount that DNR may obligate under the land acquisition subprogram for fiscal years 2013-14 and 2014-15 and makes a corresponding increase to the amount that DNR may obligate for those fiscal years under the subprogram for property development and local assistance. The bill does not change the amounts established in current law that DNR may obligate under these subprograms for fiscal years 2015-16 through fiscal years 2019-20 nor does it change the total bonding authority established in current law under the stewardship program.
Under current law, bonding under the property development and local assistance subprogram may be used only for nature-based outdoor recreation, as defined in rules promulgated by DNR, with limited exceptions. This bill authorizes DNR to set aside specified amounts under the property development and local assistance subprogram to be obligated for the purpose of infrastructure improvements to the Kettle Moraine Springs fish hatchery.
For further information see the state 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:
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1. 23.0917 (3) (br) of the statutes is renumbered 23.0917 (3) (br) (intro.) and amended to read:
23.0917 (3) (br) (intro.) Beginning with fiscal year 2010-11 and ending with fiscal year 2019-20, in In obligating moneys under the subprogram for land acquisition, the department shall set aside in each fiscal year not less than $12,000,000 the following amounts that may be obligated only to provide for grants awarded to nonprofit conservation organizations under s. 23.096.:
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2. 23.0917 (3) (br) 1. of the statutes is created to read:
23.0917 (3) (br) 1. For each fiscal year beginning with 2010-11 and ending with fiscal year 2012-13, $12,000,000.
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3. 23.0917 (3) (br) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
23.0917 (3) (br) 2. For fiscal years 2013-14 and 2014-15, $9,000,000.
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4. 23.0917 (3) (br) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
23.0917 (3) (br) 3. For each fiscal year beginning with 2015-16 and ending with fiscal year 2019-20, $12,000,000.
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5. 23.0917 (3) (dm) 6g. of the statutes is created to read:
23.0917 (3) (dm) 6g. For fiscal years 2013-14 and 2014-15, $32,000,000.
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6. 23.0917 (3) (dm) 7. of the statutes is amended to read:
23.0917 (3) (dm) 7. For each fiscal year beginning with 2013-14 2015-16 and ending with fiscal year 2019-20, $42,500,000.
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7. 23.0917 (4) (c) 4. of the statutes is created to read:
23.0917 (4) (c) 4. Infrastructure improvements to the Kettle Moraine Springs fish hatchery. This subdivision does not apply after June 30, 2017.
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8. 23.0917 (4) (d) 1m. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
23.0917 (4) (d) 1m. c. For each fiscal
year beginning with years 2013-14 and ending with fiscal year 2019-20, $15,000,000 2014-15, $25,500,000.
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9. 23.0917 (4) (d) 1m. d. of the statutes is created to read:
23.0917 (4) (d) 1m. d. For each fiscal year beginning with 2015-16 and ending with fiscal year 2019-20, $15,000,000.
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10. 23.1985 of the statutes is renumbered 23.1985 (1) (intro.) and amended to read:
23.1985 (1) (intro.) Beginning in fiscal year 2006-07 and ending in fiscal year 2019-20, from From the appropriation under s. 20.866 (2) (ta), the department shall set aside $2,000,000 in each fiscal year the following amounts that may be obligated only to acquire land from the board of commissioners of public lands under s. 24.59 (1).:
(2) For purposes of s. 23.0917, moneys provided from the appropriation under s. 20.866 (2) (ta) shall be treated as moneys obligated under the subprogram under s. 23.0917 (3).
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11. 23.1985 (1) (a) of the statutes is created to read:
23.1985 (1) (a) For each fiscal year beginning with 2006-07 and ending with fiscal year 2012-13, $2,000,000.
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12. 23.1985 (1) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
23.1985 (1) (b) For fiscal years 2013-14 and 2014-15, $1,000,000.
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13. 23.1985 (1) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
23.1985 (1) (c) For each fiscal year beginning with 2015-16 and ending with fiscal year 2019-20, $2,000,000.
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14. 23.1987 of the statutes is created to read:
23.1987 Fish hatchery infrastructure project. From the moneys appropriated under s. 20.866 (2) (ta), the department shall set aside $7,000,000 in fiscal year 2013-14 and $7,000,000 in fiscal year 2014-15 that may be obligated only for infrastructure improvements to the Kettle Moraine Springs fish hatchery. For purposes of s. 23.0917, moneys obligated under this section shall be treated as moneys obligated under the property development and local assistance subprogram under s. 23.0917 (4). Section 23.0917 (5g) does not apply with respect to amounts obligated before July 1, 2017, under this section.
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