96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0872


 
Introduced 2/10/2009, by Rep. Jim Watson
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













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    Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Subject to appropriation, requires the Department of Natural Resources to establish a one-year pilot program to reduce asian carp by stimulating its bulk harvest in the Illinois River and by increasing the number of native fish. Requires the Department to issue a report with the results of the Asian Carp Reduction Pilot Program to the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2010. Imposes conditions on any rulemaking authority. Repeals the provisions January 1, 2011.  Effective immediately.
    















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    AN ACT concerning fish.

 
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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 Fish and Aquatic Life Code is amended  by 
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adding Section 20-82 as follows:
 
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    (515 ILCS 5/20-82  new)
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    Sec. 20-82. Asian Carp Reduction Pilot Program.
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    (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department of Natural 
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Resources shall establish a one-year pilot program to stimulate 
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the bulk harvest of Bighead Carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) 
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and Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) in the Illinois 
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River and to increase the number of native fish.
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    (b) The General Assembly may appropriate an amount not to 
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exceed $3,000,000 to the Department of Natural Resources for 
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the purposes of this pilot program. From the amounts 
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appropriated, the Department may enter into contracts with 
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licensed commercial fishermen and other organizations for the 
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administration, staffing, materials, and equipment necessary 
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for the program, and the Department may also use appropriated 
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funds to establish grants to natural resource conservation 
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organizations that serve the Illinois River basin for the 
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purposes of this program.
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    (c) The pilot program shall include the development of a 
 


 






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scientific plan to reduce or remove Bighead Carp and Silver 
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Carp from the river system.
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    (d) The Department shall issue a report with the results of 
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the Asian Carp Reduction Pilot Program to the General Assembly 
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no later than December 31, 2010.
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    (e) Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act 
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of the 96th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the 
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rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the 
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Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and 
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procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; any 
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purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is 
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unauthorized.
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    (f) This Section is repealed on January 1, 2011. 
 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.