93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6075

 

Introduced 2/6/2004, by Tom Cross

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
505 ILCS 35/1-2   from Ch. 5, par. 2401-2

    Amends the Illinois Conservation Enhancement Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the legislative purpose and policy of the Act.


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A BILL FOR

 

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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 this
10 Act that certain marginal agricultural land is be kept or taken
11 out of crop production or pasture to protect soil and water
12 quality and to protect and support fish and wildlife habitat.
13 It is State policy to encourage the retirement of marginal,
14 highly erodible agricultural land, particularly land adjacent
15 to public waters and drainage systems, from crop production and
16 to reestablish a cover of perennial vegetation in order to
17 conserve, protect and enhance important water and land
18 resources.
19 (Source: P.A. 85-960; 86-1475.)