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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, To Require the State Entomologist To Work with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Board of Pesticides Control To Develop Best Management Practices To Address the Browntail Moth Infestation’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 State Entomologist to work with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Board of Pesticides Control to develop best management practices to address the browntail moth infestation to provide to municipalities. Resolved: That the State Entomologist within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry shall work with the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Board of Pesticides Control to develop best management practices for municipalities to address the browntail moth infestation and provide those best management practices to municipalities across the State; and be it further
Sec. 2 State Entomologist to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Resolved: That the State Entomologist shall report to the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry by January 15, 2018 with the best management practices recommended to municipalities pursuant to section 1 and the results in municipalities that followed the recommendations.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment is the minority report of the committee. It replaces the bill with a resolve that requires the State Entomologist within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to work with the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Board of Pesticides Control to develop best management practices for municipalities to address the browntail moth infestation and provide those best management practices to municipalities across the State. It also requires the State Entomologist to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry by January 15, 2018 with those best management practices recommended to municipalities and the results in municipalities that followed the recommendations.