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House File 2485

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  1  1                                            HOUSE FILE 2485
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS WITHIN THE SOIL AND 
  1  5    WATER ENHANCEMENT ACCOUNT OF THE RESOURCE ENHANCEMENT AND 
  1  6    PROTECTION FUND.  
  1  7 
  1  8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  9 
  1 10    Section 1.  Section 455A.19, subsection 1, paragraph c,
  1 11 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  1 12    c.  Twenty percent shall be allocated to the soil and water
  1 13 enhancement account.  The moneys shall be used to carry out
  1 14 soil and water enhancement programs including, but not limited
  1 15 to, reforestation, woodland protection and enhancement,
  1 16 wildlife habitat preservation and enhancement, protection of
  1 17 highly erodible soils, and clean water programs.  The division
  1 18 of soil conservation, by rule, shall establish procedures for
  1 19 eligibility, application, review, and selection of projects
  1 20 and practices to implement the requirements of this paragraph.
  1 21 There is appropriated from the soil and water enhancement
  1 22 account to the soil conservation division the amount in that
  1 23 account, or so much thereof as is necessary, to carry out the
  1 24 programs as specified in this paragraph.  Remaining funds of
  1 25 the soil and water conservation enhancement account shall be
  1 26 allocated to the accounts of the water protection fund
  1 27 authorized in section 161C.4.  Annually, fifty percent of the
  1 28 soil and water enhancement account funds, not to exceed one
  1 29 million dollars, shall be allocated to the water quality
  1 30 protection projects account.  The balance of the funds shall
  1 31 be allocated to the water protection practices account.  An
  1 32 appropriation made under this paragraph shall continue in
  1 33 force for two fiscal years after the fiscal year in which the
  1 34 appropriation was made or until completion of the project for
  1 35 which the appropriation was made, whichever date is earlier.
  2  1 All unencumbered or unobligated funds remaining at the close
  2  2 of the fiscal year in which the project is completed or at the
  2  3 close of the third fiscal year, whichever date is earlier,
  2  4 shall revert to the soil and water enhancement account.  
  2  5 
  2  6 
  2  7                                                             
  2  8                               BRENT SIEGRIST
  2  9                               Speaker of the House
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  2 11 
  2 12                                                             
  2 13                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2 14                               President of the Senate
  2 15 
  2 16    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  2 17 is known as House File 2485, Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
  2 18 
  2 19 
  2 20                                                             
  2 21                               ELIZABETH ISAACSON
  2 22                               Chief Clerk of the House
  2 23 Approved                , 2000
  2 24 
  2 25 
  2 26                               
  2 27 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  2 28 Governor
     
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