Bill Text: NY S02442 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires additional 10% matching grant funding of agricultural environmental programs implemented in watersheds deemed, by the commissioner of environmental conservation, to be critical to recreational fishing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S02442 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02442-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2442
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 17, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  funding
         of  agricultural  environmental  management  programs  implemented  in
         watersheds deemed critical to recreational fishing
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 151 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended
    2  by chapter 375 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 151. Agricultural environmental management program. There is  hereby
    4  established  within the department an agricultural environmental manage-
    5  ment program to assist farmers in maintaining the economic viability  of
    6  their  farm operations while addressing environmental impacts from those
    7  operations, including, but not limited to, soil, air and water pollution
    8  and greenhouse gas emissions. The program may also include assistance to
    9  farmers for the development of agriculturally-derived  renewable  energy
   10  sources.  The  program  may  consist of planner certification to qualify
   11  persons to prepare AEM plans; technical assistance  to  farmers  partic-
   12  ipating in the program; financial assistance, within funds available, to
   13  soil  and water conservation districts and farmers to prepare and imple-
   14  ment plans PROVIDED THAT FOR  PLANS  IMPLEMENTED  IN  WATERSHEDS  DEEMED
   15  CRITICAL  TO  RECREATIONAL FISHING, AS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF
   16  ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, SHALL RECEIVE  NOT  LESS  THAN  TEN  PERCENT
   17  ADDITIONAL  FINANCIAL  ASSISTANCE  WHEN  SUCH  ASSISTANCE IS DISTRIBUTED
   18  THROUGH A MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM; other incentives for  program  partic-
   19  ipation;  and  evaluation  of  program procedures and projects to assess
   20  effectiveness.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00139-01-3