| | Sec. C-1. 7 MRSA §3153-A, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 120, §2, is | amended to read: |
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| §3153-A. Dairy stabilization subsidy |
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| | If the base price of milk falls below $16.94 per hundredweight | in any month beginning September 1, 2003 and ending December 31, | 2003 May 31, 2004, the administrator of the Maine Milk Pool shall | distribute to Maine milk producers on a per hundredweight basis | 55% 40% for the months of January to May 2004 of the difference | between $16.94 per hundredweight and the base price of milk per | hundredweight. The amount distributed for milk produced during | the period between September 1, 2003 and December 31, 2003 May | 31, 2004 may not exceed $3,000,000 $2,100,000. The Governor | shall provide these funds to the Maine milk pool administrator | for distribution to Maine milk producers, as provided for in this | section, during the months of October 2003 to January June 2004. | The base price of milk is the Suffolk County, Massachusetts Class | I price of milk as determined for each month by the Northeast | Market Administrator of the United States Department of | Agriculture. The Governor shall seek a General Fund appropriation | during the Second Regular Session of the 121st Legislature if | needed for the purposes of this section. |
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| | Sec. C-2. Pollution Control Structures - Carrying Account; lapsed balances. | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, up to $290,064 of the | encumbered balance forward in fiscal year 2003-04 in the | Pollution Control Structures - Carrying Account, General Fund | account in the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural | Resources is disencumbered. The amount of $290,064 in this | account lapses to the General Fund no later than June 30, 2004. |
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| | Sec. C-3. Transfer of funds. Notwithstanding any other provision of | law, the State Controller shall transfer $103,566 from the Maine | Milk Pool, Other Special Revenue Funds account in the Department | of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources to the unappropriated | surplus of the General Fund no later than June 30, 2004. |
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| | Sec. D-1. Division of Forest Protection; lapsed balances. Notwithstanding any | other provision of law, $207,187 of unencumbered balance forward | in fiscal year 2003-04 in the Division of Forest Protection, | General Fund account in the Department of Conservation lapses to | the General Fund in fiscal year 2003-04. |
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