An Act To Enhance Funding Opportunities for the Youth Conservation Corps
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 1040
Committee Amendment CA_A_S86 (Senate)
Amends: 38 MRSA §480-I

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A " to S.P. 366, L.D. 1040, Bill, "An Act To 
Enhance Funding Opportunities for the Youth Conservation Corps" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §480-II is enacted to read: 
§4S0-ll. Program to reduce erosion and protect lake water quality 
1. 
Program. 
The commissioner shall contract with a private organization to 
establish and administer a program to reduce shoreline erosion and protect lake water 
quality. as described in subsections 2 and 3. as long as the commissioner determines that 
there are sufficient funds available to support the program and that a suitable private 
organization is available to establish and administer the program. 
2. Informational material to be provided. The program established pursuant to 
this section may provide for the distribution of informational material on erosion control 
measures, including planting shrubs, bushes and other vegetation near the shoreline. 
spreading mulch on bare soil, placing rock riprap along shorelines and building 
infiltration steps and trenches to direct water into the ground or woods or away from the 
shoreline. 
3. 
Erosion control measures to be implemented. 
The program established 
pursuant to this section must facilitate the performance of necessruy erosion control 
measures on or near the shoreline of a lake, pond or great pond. 
4. Proeram {undine. The program established pursuant to this section is funded by 
sums that are appropriated by the Legislature or transferred from time to time by the State 
Controller. 
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Sec. 2. Department of Environmental Protection to contract with private 
organization in 2016 and 2017. For the years 2016 and 2017, the Department of 
Environmental Protection shall distribute the funds appropriated in section 3 through a 
competitive bid process to a private organization to establish and administer the program 
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to reduce erosion and protect lake water quality under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
38, section 480-II. The department shall ensure that any contract entered into with a 
private organization under this section requires that: 
1. The erosion control measures described in Title 38, section 480-II, subsection 3 be 
performed in the summers of 2016 and 2017 with labor provided by a youth conservation 
corps organized or based in the State; 
2. No more than 10% of the funds appropriated by the Legislature for the program in 
section 3 or received by the contracted organization as matching funding is used for the 
administration of the program by the contracted organization; 
3. 
The scope of the program as implemented by the contracted organization is 
determined by the amount of funds appropriated in section 3; and 
4. The contracted organization disburses to a youth conservation corps no more than 
$1 from the funds appropriated for the program in section 3 for every $2 in matching 
funds contributed to the program by that youth conservation corps. Federal and state 
funds may not be considered matching funds under the program. 
Sec. 3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
ENVlRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF 
Land and Water Quality 0248 
Initiative: Provides ongoing funding to contract with a private organization to reduce 
shoreline erosion and protect lake water quality. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
2015-16 
$20,000 
$20,000 
2016-17 
$20,000 
$20,000 
SUNrndARY 
This amendment replaces the bill and creates a program to reduce shoreline erosion 
and protect lake water quality to be implemented and administered by a private 
organization contracted with by the Department of Environmental Protection. Under the 
bill, the department would administer the program. 
The amendment directs the 
department to distribute appropriated funds through a competitive bid process to 
implement and administer the program and stipulates that the contracted private 
organization must use labor from a youth conservation corps in the summers of 20 16 and 
2017 to implement erosion control measures and that the contracted organization is 
allowed to disburse to a youth conservation corps no more than $1 of state funding for 
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every $2 in matching funds contributed by that youth conservation corps. 
The 
amendment adds an appropriations and allocations section. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 05105115 
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LD 1040 
LR 1081(02) 
An Act To Enhance Funding Opportunities for the Youth Conservation Corps 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment '~t'{S -~ 
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Committee: Environment and Natural Resources 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/Allocations 
General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2015-16 
FY 2016-17 
$20,000 
$20,000 
$20,000 
$20,000 
Projections 
FY 2017-18 
$20,000 
$20,000 
Projections 
FY 2018-19 
$20,000 
$20,000 
The bill includes annual General Fund appropriations of $20,000 beginning in fiscal year 2015-16 to the Department 
of Environmental Protection to contract with a qualifying private organization to establish and administer a program 
to reduce shoreline erosion and protect lake water quality. 
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