4. To seek input from the public; and from organizations representing snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle and watercraft users, including the Maine Snowmobile Association, the University of Maine Agricultural Research Station and the Maine Marine Trade Association; and from other interested persons or organizations. In seeking that input, the commission shall, within its budgeted resources, hold its meetings in geographically diverse locations throughout the State;

5. To review a strategic boating plan developed by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the Department of Conservation and the Department of Marine Resources. Those departments are required to jointly prepare and submit to the commission a strategic boating plan that includes a plan for meeting the future freshwater and saltwater access and enforcement needs of the State; and

6. To collect other data and make such other recommendations as the commission considers appropriate on the issue of off-road fuel consumption.

The resolve requires the commission to submit its report, along with any implementing legislation, to the First Regular Session of the 120th Legislature no later than November 1, 2000. The bill also includes an appropriation for the per diem and expenses of legislative members of the commission and other expenses of the commission, including expenses for meeting notices and printing of the required report.