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Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the enacting clause the following:
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‘Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and
Whereas,  this legislation needs to take effect before the expiration of the 90-day period in order to provide protection for funds in the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund as soon as possible; and
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore,’
Amend the bill in section 2 in §1808 in the first paragraph in the last line (page 1, line 21 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "2018" and inserting the following: '2021'
Amend the bill by inserting after section 3 the following:
‘Sec. 4. 12 MRSA §1849, sub-§3, as repealed by PL 2013, c. 368, Pt. LLLL, §2, is reenacted to read:
 
3.  Expenditures from fund.    Expenditures from the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund are subject to legislative approval in the same manner as appropriations from the General Fund. Money may not be expended without allocation by the Legislature. The joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs must approve the allocations.’
Amend the bill in section 5 in paragraph G in the last line (page 2, line 2 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "and"
Amend the bill in section 6 in paragraph H in the last line (page 2, line 7 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "growth." and inserting the following: 'growth; and'
Amend the bill by inserting after section 6 the following:
‘Sec. 7.  12 MRSA §1853, sub-§1, ¶I  is enacted to read:
 
I. An update on capital plans for road construction and road maintenance, including a list and description of roads built and roads maintained in the preceding fiscal year and a list and description of roads to be built and roads to be maintained in the succeeding fiscal year.’
Amend the bill in section 7 in §1859 in the first line (page 2, line 9 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: " logging " the following: ' and forestry '
Amend the bill in section 7 in §1859 in subsection 1 in the 5th line (page 2, line 14 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: "new loggers" the following: 'and foresters'
Amend the bill in section 7 in §1859 by striking out all of subsections 2 and 3 (page 2, lines 18 to 30 in L.D.) and inserting the following:
 
‘2.  Educational grant program established; eligibility.     The bureau shall establish, maintain and administer an educational grant program, referred to in this section as "the grant program," and an application system for the grant program to allow an eligible public secondary program, career and technical education program and public postsecondary educational program to apply for an educational grant under the grant program. Only an educational program at a public secondary or public postsecondary educational institution or career and technical education center that is related to logging or forestry, referred to in this section as "an eligible educational program," is eligible to receive funding under the grant program.
 
3.  Grants; source of funds; limits.    An approved eligible educational program may receive grants of up to $50,000, if available, from the grant program. The source of the funds for the grants is the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund established under section 1849, subsection 2. Total distributions from the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund under the grant program may not exceed $300,000 in the 2 fiscal years of the state budget biennium.’
Amend the bill in section 9 in the last line (page 3, line 27 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: "lists." the following: 'After that meeting, the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over public reserved lands matters shall rank the projects on the priority lists submitted by the bureau and, if funding is available, make recommendations to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs for funding projects.'
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 11 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 11. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
 
AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY, DEPARTMENT OF
 
Land Management and Planning Z239
 
Initiative: Provides an allocation for STA-CAP costs.

OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS	2017-18	2018-19	
All Other	$3,250	$0	
			
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL	$3,250	$0	

Land Management and Planning Z239
 
Initiative: Provides an allocation to develop infrastructure projects to comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 for the State's public reserved lands.

OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS	2017-18	2018-19	
All Other	$50,000	$0	
			
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL	$50,000	$0	

Land Management and Planning Z239
 
Initiative: Provides an allocation to conduct a detailed forest inventory of the State's public reserved lands and public nonreserved lands.

OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS	2017-18	2018-19	
All Other	$0	$65,000	
			
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL	$0	$65,000	

Land Management and Planning Z239
 
Initiative: Provides allocations for educational grants to programs related to logging or forestry at public secondary or public postsecondary educational institutions or career and technical education centers.

OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS	2017-18	2018-19	
All Other	$150,000	$150,000	
			
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL	$150,000	$150,000	

AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY, DEPARTMENT OF			
DEPARTMENT TOTALS	2017-18	2018-19	
			
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS	$203,250	$215,000	
			
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS	$203,250	$215,000	
 
Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this legislation takes effect when approved.’
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment:
1. Changes the date in the bill that a detailed forest inventory of the State’s public reserved lands and nonreserved public lands must be conducted by from March 15, 2018 to March 15, 2021 and keeps the requirement that an inventory must be done every 5 years thereafter;
2. Reenacts a provision of law regarding expenditures from the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund in the statute governing revenue from public reserved lands that states that money may not be expended without allocation by the Legislature. The allocations must be approved by the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs;
3. Adds a list and description of roads built and roads maintained in the preceding fiscal year and a list and description of roads to be built and roads to be maintained in the succeeding fiscal year to the items that must be included in the annual report dealing with public reserved lands submitted by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands;
4. Adds forestry to the programs eligible to receive funding under the educational grant program established in the bill;
5. Adds career and technical education programs to the types of programs that are eligible to apply for an educational grant related to logging and forestry;
6. Removes language specifying that educational grants are only one-time grants, specifies that those grants may be given to an approved eligible educational program if funds are available and provides that the total distributions from the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund under the grant program may not exceed $300,000 in the state budget biennium; and
7. Requires the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over public reserved lands matters, after public input, to rank the statewide priority list of recreational infrastructure projects for the State's public reserved lands and the statewide priority list of projects under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 for the State's public reserved lands submitted by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands and to make recommendations, if funding is available, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs for funding projects.
This amendment adds an appropriations and allocations section.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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