LRB-0409/P2
ZDW:amn
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Potts, BB0092 - Great Lakes erosion control loan
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
natural resources
Navigable waters
Great Lakes erosion control loan program
This bill requires DNR to administer a revolving loan program to assist municipalities and owners of homes located on the shore of Lake Michigan or Lake Superior where the structural integrity of municipal buildings or homes is threatened by erosion of the shoreline. Under the bill, moneys for the program are provided from the environmental fund, the segregated fund used to finance environmental management programs administered by DNR and pollution abatement programs administered by DNR and DATCP. The bill requires DNR to promulgate rules to administer the program, including eligibility requirements and income limitations, and authorizes DNR to promulgate emergency rules for the period before permanent rules take effect.
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:
Section
1. 20.370 (9) (pq) of the statutes is created to read:
20.370 (9) (pq) Great Lakes erosion control revolving loan program. As a continuing appropriation, from the environmental fund, the amounts in the schedule for the Great Lakes erosion control revolving loan program under s. 23.199. All moneys received as loan origination fees and repayments of loan principal and interest under s. 23.199 shall be credited to this appropriation account.
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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. 23.199 of the statutes is created to read:
23.199 Great Lakes erosion control revolving loan program. (1) The department shall administer a revolving loan program to assist municipalities and owners of homes located on the shore of Lake Michigan or Lake Superior where the structural integrity of municipal buildings or homes is threatened by erosion of the shoreline.
(2) The department shall make loans under this section from the appropriation under s. 20.370 (9) (pq).
(3) The department shall promulgate rules to administer this section, including rules establishing eligibility criteria and income limitations for loans under this section.
Section 9132.
Nonstatutory provisions; Natural Resources.
(1) Emergency rule-making authority; Great Lakes erosion control program. The department of natural resources may use the procedure under s. 227.24 to promulgate emergency rules under s. 23.199 for the period before the date on which permanent rules under s. 23.199 take effect. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (c) and (2), emergency rules promulgated under this subsection remain in effect until the first day of the 25th month beginning after the effective date of the emergency rules, the date on which the permanent rules take effect, or the effective date of the repeal of the emergency rules, whichever is earlier. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3), the department of natural resources is not required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this subsection as emergency rules is necessary for the preservation of public peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule promulgated under this subsection.
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