- 2020 LEGISLATURE LRBa0359/1LRB-3383/1 EHS:cdc SENATE AMENDMENT 1, TO SENATE BILL 252 JuneMay 18,30, 2019 - OfferedIntroduced by SenatorETROWSKISenatoETROWSKI, .BEWLEY, ANSEN , INGHAND and WANGGAARD , cosponsored by RepresentativeTEINEKE, B.MEYERS, NYGREN, ANDERSON, B ROSTOFF, E DMING, E MERSON, K ERKMAN , M ILRO, M URSAU, NEUBAUER , OHNSTAD, O TT, QUINN, R AMTHUN , ROHRKASTE , SKOWRONSKI, SPREITZE, T HIESFELD, TUSLER, VANDER M EER and S TUBBS.
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1.A N A CT to repeal 20.370 (4) (ad);
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deleterelating theto: material beginning with “The department shall" and ending with “June 30, 2021." on line 21 and substitute “The department shall require Ashland County to submit to the department a progress report summarizing the results to date of its demonstration projects no later than June 30, 2021.”.
a flood risk reduction pilot project and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill appropriates $150,000 of general purpose revenue and requires the Department of Natural Resources to allocate that money in the 2019-21 fiscal biennium to Ashland County to design, implement, and evaluate not more than three demonstration projects that test natural flood risk reduction practices in that county.
The bill provides that allocated money may be used for engineering and design, materials, construction, pre-construction and post-construction monitoring, and project management.
Under the bill, DNR must require Ashland County to submit a report no later than June 30, 2021 summarizing the results of its demonstration projects, and DNR must submit to the legislature and to the Division of Emergency Management in the Department of Military Affairs a report summarizing the results of the demonstration projects and recommendations for how existing state policies or funding streams could be adapted to create incentives to protect and restore natural infrastructure and reduce floods.
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:
- 2020 Legislature - 2 - LRB-3383/1 EHS:cdc SENATE BILL 252 SECTION 1 SECTION 1.
20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes:
at the appropriate place, insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
2019-20 2020-21 20.370 Natural resources, Department of (4) ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (ad) Flood risk reduction pilot project GPR B 75,000 75,000 SECTION 2.
20.370 (4) (ad) of the statutes is created to read:
20.370 (4) (ad) Flood risk reduction pilot project.
Biennially, from the general fund, the amounts in the schedule for the pilot project under 2019 Wisconsin Act ....
(this act), section (4) (1).
SECTION 3.
20.370 (4) (ad) of the statutes, as created by 2019 Wisconsin Act ....
(this act), is repealed.
SECTION 4.0Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) FLOOD RISK REDUCTION PILOT PROJECIn the 2019-21 fiscal biennium, the department of natural resources shall allocate $150,000 to Ashland County to design, implement, and evaluate not more than three demonstration projects that test natural flood risk reduction practices in that county.
Project expenditures for the moneys allocated may be used include engineering and design, materials, construction, pre-construction and post-construction monitoring, and project management.
The department shall require Ashland County to submit to the department a report summarizing the results of its demonstration projects no later than June 30, 2021.
The department shall submit to the legislature, in the manner provided under section 13.172 (2), and to the division of emergency management in the department of military affairs a report summarizing the results of the LRB-3383/1 - 2020 Legislature - 3 - EHS:cdc SECTION 4 SENATE BILL 252 demonstration projects and recommendations for how existing state policies or funding streams could be adapted to create incentives to protect and restore natural infrastructure and reduce floods.
SECTION 5.0Effective dates.
This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after publication of the 2019 biennial budget act, whichever is later, except as follows:
(1) The treatment of s.
20.370 (4) (ad)ECTION 3) takes effect on July 1, 2021.