An Act To Increase Funding for the Youth Conservation Corps
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 0894
Committee: Environment and Natural Resources
Sponsors: SAVIELLO, BLACK

Legislative Document
No. 894
S.P. 296
In Senate, March 7, 2017
An Act To Increase Funding for the Youth Conservation Corps
Reference to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources suggested and ordered 
printed.
HEATHER J.R. PRIEST
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator SAVIELLO of Franklin.
Cosponsored by Representative: BLACK of Wilton.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  Department of Environmental Protection to contract with private 
organization in 2018 and 2019.  For the years 2018 and 2019, the Department of 
Environmental Protection shall distribute the funds appropriated in section 2 through a 
competitive bid process to a private organization to establish and administer the program 
to reduce erosion and protect lake water quality under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
38, section 480-JJ.  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-JJ, subsection 3 be 
performed in the summers of 2018 and 2019 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 2 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 2; and 
4.  The contracted organization disburses to a youth conservation corps no more than 
$1 from the funds appropriated for the program in section 2 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. 2.  Appropriations and allocations.  The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF 
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Initiative:  Increases from $20,000 to $40,000 per year beginning in fiscal year 2018-19 
ongoing funding to contract with a private organization to reduce shoreline erosion and 
protect lake water quality. 
SUMMARY 
This bill increases funding beginning in fiscal year 2018-19 for the program 
established by the 127th Legislature 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.  The bill directs the department for the 
GENERAL FUND 
2017-18
2018-19
All Other 
$0
$20,000
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
$0
$20,000
years 2018 and 2019 to distribute appropriated funds for the program through a 
competitive bid process and requires the contracted private organization to use labor from 
a youth conservation corps in the summers of 2018 and 2019 to implement erosion 
control measures.  It provides that the contracted organization is allowed to disburse to a 
youth conservation corps no more than $1 of state funding for every $2 in matching funds 
contributed by that youth conservation corps.