Appropriations-General Services Committee

Filed: 5/20/2008

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6432

    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 6432, by deleting everything after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

“ARTICLE 1

    Section 5.  The sum of $4,112,300, new appropriation, is appropriated, and the sum of $14,430,478, or so much thereof as may be necessary and as remains unexpended at the close of business on June 30, 2008, from appropriations heretofore made in Article 250, Section 5 of Public Act 95-348, are reappropriated from the Partners for Conservation Fund to the Department of Natural Resources for the Partners for Conservation Program to implement ecosystem-based management for Illinois' natural resources.

   Section 85.  The following named sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, respectively, for the objects and purposes hereinafter named, are appropriated to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of Natural Resources:

OFFICE OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION

For an Urban Fishing Program in

 conjunction with the Chicago Park

 District to provide fishing and

 resource management at the park

 district lagoons:

  Payable from Wildlife and Fish Fund.............. 247,800

For workshops, training and other activities

 to improve the administration of fish

 and wildlife federal aid programs from

 federal aid administrative grants

 received for such purposes:

  Payable from Wildlife and Fish Fund............... 11,400

    Total                                          $259,200

    Section 110.  The following named sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, respectively, for the objects and purposes hereinafter named, are appropriated to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of Natural Resources:

OFFICE OF MINES AND MINERALS

For the purpose of reclaiming surface

 mined lands, with respect to which a

 bond has been forfeited:

  Payable from Land Reclamation Fund............... 350,000

    Total                                          $350,000

    Section 115.  The following named sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the objects and purposes hereinafter named, are appropriated to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of Natural Resources:

OFFICE OF WATER RESOURCES

For payment of the Department’s share

 of operation and maintenance of statewide

 stream gauging network, water data

 storage and retrieval system, in

 cooperation with the U.S. Geological

 Survey:

  Payable from the Wildlife and Fish Fund.......... 200,000

For execution of state assistance

 programs to improve the administration

 of the National Flood Insurance

 Program (NFIP) and National Dam

 Safety Program as approved by the

 Federal Emergency Management Agency

 (82 Stat. 572):

  Payable from National Flood Insurance

   Program Fund.................................... 480,700

    Total                                          $680,700

    Section 125.  The sum of $5,290,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the DNR Federal Projects Fund to the Department of Natural Resources for expenditure by the Office of Water Resources for Floodplain Map Modernization as approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

ARTICLE 999

Section 999.  Effective Date.  This Act takes effect July 1, 2008.”.