House Amendment 1836


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend Senate File 551, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 9, by inserting after line 3 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  IOWA RESOURCES ENHANCEMENT AND
     1  6 PROTECTION FUND.  Notwithstanding the amount of the
     1  7 standing appropriation from the general fund of the
     1  8 state to the Iowa resources enhancement and protection
     1  9 fund as provided in section 455A.18, there is
     1 10 appropriated from the general fund to the Iowa
     1 11 resources enhancement and protection fund, in lieu of
     1 12 the appropriation made in section 455A.18, for the
     1 13 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, and ending June
     1 14 30, 2008, the following amount, to be allocated as
     1 15 provided in section 455A.19:
     1 16 .................................................. $ 15,500,000>
     1 17 #2.  Page 11, line 5, by striking the figure
     1 18 <2,550,000> and inserting the following:  <2,700,000>.
     1 19 #3.  Page 11, line 26, by striking the figure
     1 20 <1,500,000> and inserting the following:  <2,000,000>.
     1 21 #4.   Page 11, line 33, by striking the figure
     1 22 <7,000,000> and inserting the following:  <7,850,000>.
     1 23 #5.  Page 13, line 24, by striking the word <For>
     1 24 and inserting the following:  <1.  For>.
     1 25 #6.  Page 13, by inserting after line 28 the
     1 26 following:
     1 27    <2.  For deposit in the unsewered community
     1 28 revolving loan fund as provided in section 16.135, if
     1 29 enacted in this Act, for purposes of supporting the
     1 30 unsewered community revolving loan program as provided
     1 31 in that section:
     1 32 .................................................. $  1,000,000
     1 33    The appropriation in this subsection is contingent
     1 34 upon the enactment of section 16.135 as provided in
     1 35 this Act.>
     1 36 #7.  Page 15, line 9, by striking the figure
     1 37 <500,000> and inserting the following:  <2,000,000>.
     1 38 #8.  Page 15, by inserting after line 19 the
     1 39 following:
     1 40    <10.  For a light detection and ranching project
     1 41 which provides statewide aerial photography to create
     1 42 a database for natural resource planning:
     1 43 .................................................. $  1,500,000
     1 44    11.  For the dredging of lakes, including necessary
     1 45 preparation for dredging, in accordance with the
     1 46 department's classification of Iowa lakes restoration
     1 47 report:
     1 48 .................................................. $  1,000,000
     1 49    12.  For support of the restore the outdoors
     1 50 program as provided in section 461A.3A:
     2  1 .................................................. $  3,000,000
     2  2    13.  a.  For a statewide program to support
     2  3 projects that assist targeted communities when
     2  4 demolishing any building located in the community
     2  5 which is abandoned or dilapidated and to dispose of
     2  6 materials or equipment associated with such building
     2  7 in order to provide for the health and safety of the
     2  8 community's population and to allow for redevelopment
     2  9 of the building site:
     2 10 .................................................. $  1,000,000
     2 11    b.  As used in paragraph "a", "targeted community"
     2 12 means a community having a population of not more than
     2 13 350 individuals or a disadvantaged community.  The
     2 14 department shall establish criteria for determining a
     2 15 disadvantaged community's status based on the
     2 16 community's median household income.
     2 17    c.  If the department determines that moneys
     2 18 appropriated in paragraph "a" are not adequate to
     2 19 fully support all projects which would have otherwise
     2 20 been approved under the program, the department shall
     2 21 prioritize the allocation of moneys to support those
     2 22 projects which are necessary to protect the health and
     2 23 safety of a community's population from the most
     2 24 immediate and highest risk.>
     2 25 #9.  Page 15, by striking lines 20 through 30.
     2 26 #10.  Page 16, by inserting after line 12 the
     2 27 following:
     2 28                      <DIVISION    
     2 29          CODE LANGUAGE == UNSEWERED COMMUNITY
     2 30                  LOAN PROGRAM AND FUND
     2 31    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  16.135  UNSEWERED
     2 32 COMMUNITY REVOLVING LOAN PROGRAM == FUND.
     2 33    1.  The authority shall establish and administer an
     2 34 unsewered community revolving loan program.
     2 35 Assistance under the program shall consist of
     2 36 no=interest loans with a term not to exceed forty
     2 37 years and shall be used for purposes of installing
     2 38 sewage disposal systems in a city without a sewage
     2 39 disposal system or in an area where a cluster of homes
     2 40 is located.
     2 41    2.  An unsewered community may apply for assistance
     2 42 under the program.  In awarding assistance, the
     2 43 authority shall encourage the use of innovative,
     2 44 cost=effective sewage disposal systems and
     2 45 technologies.  The authority shall adopt rules that
     2 46 prioritize applications for disadvantaged unsewered
     2 47 communities.
     2 48    3.  For purposes of this section, "an area where a
     2 49 cluster of homes is located" means an area located in
     2 50 a county which includes six or more homes but less
     3  1 than five hundred homes.
     3  2    4.  An unsewered community revolving loan fund is
     3  3 created in the state treasury under the control of the
     3  4 authority and consisting of moneys appropriated by the
     3  5 general assembly and any other moneys available to and
     3  6 obtained or accepted by the authority for placement in
     3  7 the fund.
     3  8    5.  Repayments of moneys loaned and recaptures of
     3  9 loans shall be deposited in the fund.
     3 10    6.  Moneys in the fund shall be used to provide
     3 11 assistance under the unsewered community revolving
     3 12 loan program established in this section.
     3 13    7.  Moneys in the fund are not subject to section
     3 14 8.33.  Notwithstanding section 12C.7, interest or
     3 15 earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to
     3 16 the fund.>
     3 17
     3 18
     3 19                               
     3 20 DE BOEF of Keokuk
     3 21 SF 551.513 82
     3 22 da/je/8871

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