An Act To Authorize Bond Issues for Ratification by the Voters for the June and November 2007 Elections
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 1796
Committee Amendment CA_A-SA_D_S30 (Senate)

SENATE AMENDMENT "1),, to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 640, 
L.D. 1796, Bill, "An Act To Authorize Bond Issues for Ratification by the Voters for the 
June and November 2007 Elections" 
Amend the amendment in Part C in section 1 in the 3rd line (page 6, line 4 in 
amendment) by striking out the following: "$43,500,000" and inserting the following: 
'$22,000,000' 
Amend the amendment in Part C by striking out all of section 6 (page 6, lines 27 to 
and page 7, lines 1 to 27 in amendment) and inserting the following: 
'Sec. C-6. Allocations from General Fund bond issue. The proceeds of the 
sale of the bonds authorized under this Part must be expended as designated in the 
following schedule. 
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM 
Provides funds for interior and exterior 
building renovations, improvements and 
additions at all campuses of the 
University of Maine System. 
MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY 
Provides funds for interior and exterior 
building renovations, improvements and 
additions at the Maine Maritime 
Academy campus. 
MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 
SYSTEM 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
$3,000,000 
$1,500,000 
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SENATE AMENDMENT "']),, to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 640, L.D. 1796 
Provides funds for interior and exterior 
building renovations, improvements and 
additions at all campuses of the Maine 
Community College System. 
MAINE STATE CULTURAL 
AFFAffiS COUNCIL 
New Century Community Program 
Provides funds to revitalize downtown 
areas, preserve and strengthen state and 
community historic and cultural assets 
and expand access to digital and 
educational resources. 
$15,500,000 
$2,000,000 
Amend the amendment in Part C in section lOin the question in the first line (page 8, 
line 5 in amendment) by striking out the following: "$43,500,000" and inserting the 
following: '$22,000,000' 
Amend the amendment in Part D in section 1 in the 3rd line (page 8, line 26 in 
amendment) by striking out the following: "$55,000,000" and inserting the following: 
'$50,000,000' 
Amend the amendment in Part D by striking out all of section 6 (page 9, lines 8 to 44 
and page 10, lines 1 and 2 in amendment) and inserting the following: 
'Sec. D-6. Allocations from General Fund bond issue. The proceeds of the 
sale of the bonds authorized under this Part must be expended as designated in the 
following schedule. 
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC 
AND COMMUNITY 
DEVELOPMENT 
Maine Technology Institute 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
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SENATE AMENDMENT"~" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 640, L.D. 1796 
Provides funds for research, development 
and commercialization as prioritized by 
the Office of Innovation's 2005 Science 
and Technology Action Plan for Maine. 
The funds must be allocated to 
biotechnology, aquaculture and marine 
technology, composite materials 
technology, environmental technology, 
advanced technologies for forestry and 
agriculture, information technology and 
precision manufacturing technology 
through a competitive process, and must 
be awarded to Maine-based public and 
private entities to leverage matching 
funds on at least a one-to-one basis. 
$50,000,000 
Amend the amendment in Part D in section 10 in the question in the 2nd and 3rd lines 
(page 10, lines 24 and 25 in amendment) by striking out the following: "$5,000,000 in 
loans and grant funds and would provide" 
Amend the amendment in Part E in section 1 in the 3rd line (page 11, line 4 in 
amendment) by striking out the following: "$35,500,000" and inserting the following: 
'$15,000,000' 
Amend the amendment in Part E in section 1 in the 4th line (page 11, line 5 in 
amendment) by striking out the following: "$21,875,000" and inserting the following: 
'$7,500,000' 
Amend the amendment in Part E by striking out all of section 5 (page 11, lines 24 to 
and page 12, lines 1 to 25 in amendment) and inserting the following: 
'Sec. E-S. Disbursement of bond proceeds. The proceeds of the bonds must be 
expended as set out in this Part under the direction and supervision of the Executive 
Department, Land for Maine's Future Board. The proceeds of the bonds to be 
administered by the Land for Maine's Future Board must be expended for acquisition of 
land and interest in land for conservation, water access, outdoor recreation, wildlife and 
fish habitat and farmland preservation in accordance with the provisions for such 
acquisitions under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 353, including all costs 
associated with such acquisitions, except that use of the proceeds of these bonds is 
subject to the following conditions and requirements. 
1. Hunting, fishing, trapping and public access may not be prohibited on land 
acquired with bond proceeds, except to the extent of applicable state, local or federal laws 
and regulations and except for farmland protection projects. 
2. Payment from bond proceeds for acquisitions of local or regional significance, as 
determined by the Land for Maine's Future Board, may be made directly to cooperating 
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SENATE AMENDMENT "J)" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 640, L.D. 1796 
entities as defined in Title 5, section 6201, subsection 2 for acquisition of land and 
interest in land by cooperating entities, subject to tenns and conditions enforceable by the 
State to ensure its use for the purposes of this Part. In addition to the considerations 
required under Title 5, chapter 353, the board shall give a preference to acquisitions under 
this subsection that achieve benefits for multiple towns and that address regional 
conservation needs including public recreational access, wildlife, open space and 
fannland. 
3. The bond funds expended for conservation, recreation, fannland and water access 
must be matched with at least $7,500,000 in public and private contributions. Seventy 
percent of that amount must be in the fonn of cash or other tangible assets, including the 
value of land and real property interest acquired by or contributed to cooperating entities 
when property interests have a direct relationship to the property proposed for protection, 
as detennined by the Land for Maine's Future Board. The remaining 30% may be 
matching contributions and may include the value of project-related, in-kind 
contributions of goods and services to and by cooperating entities as defined in Title 5, 
section 6201, subsection 2. 
4. Of the bond proceeds allocated to the Land for Maine's Future Board, $1,700,000 
must be made available to acquire public access to water in accordance with Title 5, 
section 6203-A. 
5. Of the bond proceeds allocated to the Land for Maine's Future Board, $1,700,000 
must be made available to protect farmland in accordance with Title 5, section 6207. 
6. To the extent the purposes are consistent with the disbursement provisions in this 
Part, 100% of the bond proceeds may be considered as state match for any federal 
funding to be made available to the State.' 
Amend the amendment in Part E by striking out all of section 6 (page 12, lines 26 to 
and page 13, lines 1 to 44 in amendment) and inserting the following: 
'Sec. E-6. Allocations from General Fund bond issue. The proceeds of the 
sale of the bonds authorized under this Part must be expended as designated in the 
following schedule. 
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 
State Planning Office 
Land for Maine's Future Board 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
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SENATE AMENDMENT "J>" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 640, L.D. 1796 
Provides funds in order to leverage 
$7,500,000 in other funds to be used for 
the acquisition of land and interest in land 
for conservation; water access, which 
must receive $1,700,000; outdoor 
recreation; wildlife and fish habitat; and 
farmland preservation, which must 
receive $1,700,000. 
$15,000,000 
Amend the amendment in Part E in section 10 by striking out all of the question 
(page 14, lines 21 to 26 in amendment) and inserting the following: 
"'Do you favor a $15,000,000 bond issue to invest in land conservation, 
water access, wildlife habitat, outdoor recreation opportunities, including 
hunting and fishing and farmland and to invest in state parks, historic 
sites and riverfront, community and farm infrastructure to be matched by 
at least $7,500,000 in private and public contributions?'" 
Amend the amendment by striking out all of Part F. 
Amend the amendment in Part G in section I in the 3rd line (page 17, line 9 in 
amendment) by striking out .the following: "$29,725,000" and inserting the following: 
'$76,725,000' 
Amend the amendment in Part G by striking out all of section 6 (page 17, lines 32 to 
39, page 18, lines 1 to 40 and page 19, lines 1 to 33 in amendment) and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. G-6. Allocations from General Fund bond issue. The proceeds of the 
sale of the bonds authorized under this Part must be expended as designated in the 
following schedule. 
DEPARTMENT OF INLAND 
FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE 
Dam repair 
Provides funds for major rehabilitation of 
dams. 
DEPARTMENT OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
Uncontrolled hazardous waste 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
$300,000 
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SENATE AMENDMENT '1>" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 640, L.D. 1796 
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Provides funds to investigate and clean up 
$2,000,000 
uncontrolled hazardous substance 
contamination at sites posing 
unacceptable threats to public health and 
water quality. 
Municipal landfills 
Provides funds to identify and address 
$800,000 
pollution problems at closed landfills 
under a statutory mandate to monitor and 
inspect closed municipal facilities. Bonds 
will repay municipalities that conducted 
remedial actions such as waterline 
extensions or landfill gas collection to 
protect nearby residential property. 
Industrial landfills 
Provides funds to address public health 
$300,000 
and environmental threats by preventing 
pollution from abandoned landfills left 
behind by corporations that went 
bankrupt. 
Air quality monitoring 
Provides funds to replace aging or 
$300,000 
obsolete equipment used to monitor air 
quality for public health concerns. The 
State can no longer rely on federal 
funding to support this effort. 
DEPARTMENT OF 
TRANSPORTATION 
Highway and Bridge Improvements 
$60,000,000 
Ferry and Port Improvements 
$500,000 
Airports 
$200,000 
Transit and Bus Improvements 
$1,000,000 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
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SENATE AMENDMENT "1>" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 640, L.D.1796 
Pedestrian and Bicycle Trails 
Passenger and Freight Rail Improvements 
Provides funds for reconstruction of a 
bulkhead and wharf at the former United 
States Coast Guard facility in Portland. 
$950,000 
$9,675,000 
$700,000 
Amend the amendment in Part G in section 10 by striking out all of the question 
(page 20, lines 11 to 13 in amendment) and inserting the following: 
"'Do you favor a $76,725,000 bond issue for natural resource, 
agricultural 
and 
transportation 
infrastructure 
that 
will 
leverage 
$110,080,000 in other funds?'" 
Amend the amendment by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter 
or section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment increases the bond for the improvement of roads and bridges to be 
voted on in June 2008 by $50,000,000 to $60,000,000, but maintains the total amount of 
the bond package at $295,000,000 by: 
1. Reducing the bond for the Executive Department, Land for Maine's Future Board 
by $2,000,000 to $15,000,000 and the bond for University of Maine System infrastructure 
by $20,000,000 to $3,000,000; 
2. Eliminating the proposed bonds of $1,500,000 for the Department of Education, 
School Revolving Renovation Fund; 
3. Eliminating the proposed bonds of $1,500,000 for the Economic Recovery Loan 
Program, $1,000,000 for the Regional Economic Development Revolving Loan Program 
and $1,000,000 for the Agricultural Marketing Loan Fund, all in the Finance Authority of 
Maine; 
4. Eliminating the proposed bonds of $1,500,000 for the Maine Rural Development 
Authority; 
5. Eliminating the proposed bonds of $1,500,000 for the Department of Agriculture, 
Food and Rural Resources, agricultural water source development grant program; 
6. 
Eliminating the proposed bonds of $7,500,000 for the Department of 
Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands for capital improvements; 
7. Eliminating the proposed bonds of $5,000,000 and $1,500,000 to the Department 
of Economic and Community Development for investments under the Riverfront 
Community Development Program and for public service infrastructure grants and loans 
from the Municipal Investment Trust Fund, respectively; 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
SENATE AMENDMENT 'J>" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 640, L.D. 1796 
8. 
Eliminating the proposed bonds of $3,000,000 for working waterfront 
preservation; 
9. Eliminating the proposed bonds of $2,000,000 for upgrades to fish hatcheries; and 
10. Eliminating the proposed bonds of $1,000,000 for funding of small community 
grants. 
This amend 
eliminates the Riverfront Community Development Program 
established i Committee 1\ endment "A." 
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(Senator NASS, R.) 
COUNTY: York 
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SENATE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 04/04/07 hae. 
LD 1796 
LR 2594(13) 
An Act To Authorize Bond Issues for Ratification by the Voters for the June and November 2007 
Elections 
Fiscal Note for Senate Amendment Ii)) " to Committee Amendment "A" 
Sponsor: Sen. Nass, R. of York 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
No net fiscal impact 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This amendment decreases the funding for selected bond issue programs by $50,000,000 and adds the same amount 
for Highway and Bridge Improvements. 
LR2594(l3) - Fiscal Note - Page I of 1