September 25, 2012, Introduced by Reps. McBroom, McMillin, Foster, Gilbert, Opsommer, Shirkey, Cotter, Huuki, Somerville, Agema, MacMaster, Pscholka, Horn, Yonker, Bumstead, Farrington, Daley, Johnson, Franz, Poleski, Pettalia, Genetski and Kowall and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled
"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"
by amending section 1907 (MCL 324.1907), as amended by 2008 PA 229.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1907. (1) The board shall determine which lands and
rights in land within the state should be acquired and which public
recreation facilities should be developed with money from the trust
fund and shall submit to the legislature in January of each year a
list of those lands and rights in land and those public recreation
facilities that the board has determined should be acquired or
developed with trust fund money, compiled in order of priority. The
lands that the board determines should be acquired or developed
shall be specifically identified. The list shall not include broad
references such as ecoregions in listing the lands to be acquired
or developed. In preparing the list under this subsection, the
board shall give particular consideration to the acquisition of
land and rights in land for recreational trails that intersect the
downtown areas of cities and villages.
(2) This list shall be accompanied by estimates of total costs
for the proposed acquisitions and developments.
(3) The board shall supply with each list a statement of the
guidelines used in listing and assigning the priority of these
proposed acquisitions and developments.
(4) The legislature shall approve by law the lands and rights
in land and the public recreation facilities to be acquired or
developed each year with money from the trust fund.