H.B. 111

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APPROPRIATION FOR WATER QUALITY
2 PROTECTION
3 2001 GENERAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: Brent D. Parker
6 This act appropriates an ongoing appropriation of $75,000 from the General Fund for fiscal
7 year 2001-02 to Utah State University Extension for a program to assist agricultural
8 producers in identifying and implementing management practices that prevent
9 contamination of water by animal wastes. This act takes effect on July 1, 2001.
10 This act enacts uncodified material.
11 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
12 Section 1. Appropriation.
13 (1) Subject to future budget constraints, there is appropriated, as an ongoing appropriation,
14 $75,000 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2001-02 to Utah State University Extension for a
15 program to assist agricultural producers in identifying and implementing management practices
16 that prevent contamination of water by animal wastes.
17 (2) (a) The money appropriated in Subsection (1) may be used to hire personnel and pay
18 operating expenses necessary to conduct activities to assist agricultural producers in employing
19 management practices that improve water quality, including:
20 (i) on-farm trials in which agricultural producers, with the assistance of extension agents,
21 identify, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of management practices; and
22 (ii) training workshops.
23 (b) On-farm trials and training workshops shall be conducted in different areas of the state.
24 (3) The money appropriated in Subsection (1) is nonlapsing.
25 Section 2. Effective date.
26 This act takes effect on July 1, 2001.

Legislative Review Note
as of 1-15-01 10:39 AM

A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

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