May 21, 2009, Introduced by Senators BROWN, CROPSEY, KUIPERS, JELINEK, GILBERT, VAN WOERKOM, JANSEN and PAPPAGEORGE and referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Bioeconomy.
A bill to amend 1923 PA 312, entitled
"An act to empower the United States of America to acquire lands in
the state of Michigan by purchase or otherwise for establishing,
consolidating, and extending national and state forests; to grant
to the United States of America all rights necessary for the proper
control and administration of lands so acquired; and to authorize
cooperative agreements between the state of Michigan and the United
States for the acquisition, management, and operation of public
forest lands,"
by amending section 1a (MCL 3.401a).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
1a. Authority is hereby given for the conservation The
commission
to of agriculture may enter into cooperative agreements
with
such the federal agencies as have or may be that have been
given
such authority by act of congress for the purpose of
acquisition, management, and operation of public forest lands.
Under
such these cooperative agreements, forest lands purchased by
the
United States shall be administered by the conservation
commission of agriculture as state forest lands and, during the
period the agreement remains in force, 1/2 of the gross proceeds
from all lands covered by the agreement and to which the United
States holds title shall be paid by the state to the United States.
:
Provided, That However, when the amount of such these payments
shall
equal the total sum expended by the
United States in
acquiring
said the lands, title to said the lands
shall be
transferred
from the federal government to the state. : And
provided
further, That in In the event of the termination of said
the
cooperative agreements where the title
to said the lands is in
the United States, then the federal government shall reimburse the
state for so much of the state funds as have been expended in the
administration, development, and management of the lands involved
as the secretary of agriculture may decide to be fair and
equitable.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No. 603
of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.