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ND SB2267
Bill
Status
1/19/2015
Primary Sponsor
Joan Heckaman
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AI Summary
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State water commission shall create and administer a terminal lake assistance program to purchase land under Devils Lake that was taken from owners through increases in navigable water creating sovereign lands
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Federal funding must provide matching funds not exceeding 50% of total purchase price, $400 per acre for previous crop or hay land, or $200 per acre for previous pasture or grazing land
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Funding must be equitably distributed among eligible applicants, with total purchase price not exceeding fair market value of the land if it had not been flooded
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$25,000,000 appropriated from the general fund to the state water commission to provide minimum 50% of funds for land purchases under the program
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Funds available for the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2017
Legislative Description
A BILL for an Act to provide for the purchase of inundated land under a terminal lake; and to provide an appropriation.
Last Action
Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 14 nays 33
2/3/2015