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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB2743
Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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505 ILCS 35/1-2 |
from Ch. 5, par. 2401-2 |
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Amends the Illinois Conservation Enhancement Act. Makes a technical change in
a Section concerning the legislative purpose and policy of the Act.
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A BILL FOR
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HB2743 |
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LRB096 07766 JDS 17867 b |
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| AN ACT concerning agriculture.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Conservation Enhancement Act is |
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| amended by changing Section 1-2 as follows:
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| (505 ILCS 35/1-2) (from Ch. 5, par. 2401-2)
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| Sec. 1-2. Purpose and policy. This Act creates 2 major |
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| programs,
the
the Save Illinois Topsoil Program and the |
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| Illinois
Natural Resource Enhancement Program. It is the |
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| purpose of this Act that
certain marginal agricultural land be |
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| kept or taken out of crop production
or pasture to protect soil |
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| and water quality and to protect and support
fish and wildlife |
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| habitat. It is State policy to encourage the retirement
of |
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| marginal, highly erodible agricultural land, particularly land |
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| adjacent
to public waters and drainage systems, from crop |
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| production and to
reestablish a cover of perennial vegetation |
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| in order to conserve, protect
and enhance important water and |
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| land resources. |
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| (Source: P.A. 85-960; 86-1475.)
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