AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND RURAL RESOURCES,

DEPARTMENT OF

Division of Quality Assurance and Regulation

Positions - Legislative Count (1.000)

Personal Services $57,475

All Other 110,636

Appropriates additional funds for one additional Supervising Inspector position and necessary operating costs to initiate a poultry and meat inspection program.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND

RURAL RESOURCES ________

TOTAL $168,111

FISCAL NOTE

2000-01

APPROPRIATIONS/ALLOCATIONS

General Fund $168,111

This bill includes a General Fund appropriation of $168,111 in fiscal year 2000-01 for the Division of Quality Assurance and Regulation within the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources to implement a meat and poultry inspection program. For fiscal year 2000-01, the appropriation includes funds for one additional Supervising Inspector position and necessary operating costs to initiate the program. As the program is implemented, one additional Consumer Protection Inspector position and 1/2 of a State Veterinarian position will be needed in fiscal year 2001- 02 and one additional Consumer Protection Inspector position will be needed in fiscal year 2002-03. The estimated future costs are $202,732 and $245,440 in fiscal years 2001-02 and 2002-03, respectively.

Beginning in fiscal year 2001-02, the Federal Government will reimburse the State of Maine for 50% of the ongoing costs