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HB1835 Engrossed                     LRB093 04960 JAM 05019 b

 1        AN ACT concerning conservation.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The Illinois Conservation Enhancement Act is
 5    amended by changing Section 1-2 as follows:

 6        (505 ILCS 35/1-2) (from Ch. 5, par. 2401-2)
 7        Sec. 1-2.  Purpose and policy.  This Act creates 2  major
 8    programs,  the Save Illinois Topsoil Program and the Illinois
 9    Natural Resource Enhancement Program.  It is the  purpose  of
10    this  Act  that certain marginal agricultural land is be kept
11    or taken out of crop production or pasture  to  protect  soil
12    and  water  quality  and  to  protect  and  support  fish and
13    wildlife habitat.   It  is  State  policy  to  encourage  the
14    retirement  of  marginal,  highly erodible agricultural land,
15    particularly land adjacent  to  public  waters  and  drainage
16    systems,  from  crop production and to reestablish a cover of
17    perennial  vegetation  in  order  to  conserve,  protect  and
18    enhance important water and land resources.
19    (Source: P.A. 85-960; 86-1475.)