LRB-0843/P2
MCP:emw
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Frederick, BB0105 - Nonpoint source funding changes
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Environment
Water quality
This bill creates a separate appropriation for producer led watershed protection grants. The bill also allows moneys in the environmental fund that have been received for the purpose of environmental management to be considered to have been received for debt service payments for certain nonpoint source water pollution abatement projects, in the amount of $3,152,500 in each fiscal year.
For further information see the state and local 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:
Section
1. 20.115 (7) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:
20.115 (7) (cm) Soil and water management; aids; producer led watershed protection grants. The amounts in the schedule for producer led watershed protection grants under s. 93.59. The department shall allocate funds, in an amount that does not exceed $250,000 in each fiscal year, for the producer led watershed protection grants.
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 20.115 (7) (qf) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.115 (7) (qf) Soil and water management; aids. From the environmental fund, the amounts in the schedule for cost-sharing grants and contracts under the soil and water resource management program under s. 92.14, but not for the support of local land conservation personnel, and for producer led watershed protection grants under s. 93.59. The department shall allocate funds, in an amount that does not exceed $250,000 in each fiscal year for the producer led watershed protection grants.
Section 9133.
Nonstatutory provisions; Natural Resources.
(1) Environmental fund. Of the moneys in the environmental fund that are received for the purpose of environmental management, $3,152,500 shall, in each fiscal year of the 2017-19 fiscal biennium, be considered to have been received for the purposes under section 20.370 (7) (cr) and (cs) of the statutes.
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