First Substitute H.B. 276

Representative Bradley T. Johnson proposes to substitute the following bill:

1 CONSERVATION DISTRICT TECHNICAL
2 ASSISTANCE APPROPRIATION
3 1998 GENERAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: Bradley T. Johnson
6 AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS; APPROPRIATING $1,000,000 FROM THE
7 GENERAL FUND FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998-99 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
8 AGRICULTURE AND FOOD FOR DISTRIBUTION TO SOIL CONSERVATION
9 DISTRICTS; INDICATING AN INTENT FOR AN ONGOING APPROPRIATION; AND
10 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11 This act enacts uncodified material.
12 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
13 Section 1. Appropriation.
14 (1) There is appropriated $1,000,000 from the General Fund for fiscal year 1998-99 to the
15 Department of Agriculture and Food for distribution to soil conservation districts, organized under
16 Title 17A, Chapter 3, Part 8, Soil Conservation Districts, for:
17 (a) developing conservation plans for farmers and ranchers to keep the state's farmland
18 productive and rivers and lakes clean;
19 (b) engineering loans from the Agriculture Resource Development Loan program and the
20 Nonpoint Source Pollution program;
21 (c) helping counties and cities identify critical natural resources and development
22 constraints;
23 (d) educating the state's consumers about the necessity of important agricultural lands and
24 protecting the state's natural resources; and
25 (e) providing technical assistance to implement best management practices in carrying out

1 state and federal conservation programs.
2 (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that this appropriation be ongoing.
3 Section 2. Effective date.
4 This act takes effect on July 1, 1998.

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