CHAPTER 89

S.P. 446 - L.D. 1358

Resolve, To Reestablish the Commission To Study the Needs

and Opportunities Associated with the Production of Salmonid

Sport Fish in Maine

Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and

Whereas, the 119th Legislature originally established the Commission to Study the Needs and Opportunities Associated with the Production of Salmonid Sport Fish in Maine in Resolve 1999, chapter 82 and the 120th Legislature reestablished it in Public Law 2001, chapter 462; and

Whereas, Private and Special Law 2001, chapter 71 authorized a general fund bond in the amount of $7,000,000 to raise funds to construct and upgrade water pollution control facilities, to remove discharges and to make renovations and enhance wastewater treatment at the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife's fish-rearing facilities; and

Whereas, authorization of this commission for an additional period is essential to allow the commission to provide legislative policy guidance on the expenditures of those funds; and

Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore, be it