Non-General Fund resources that contribute to funding costs related to general departmentwide functions, such as accounting, personnel administration, maintenance of property records and general purchasing, that have been made available to an account by legislative action may be consolidated into one or more administrative accounts, unless such a consolidation is expressly prohibited by state or federal law.__All resources and costs affected by such a consolidation must be properly identified and included in the budget process in accordance with chapter 149.__ When the Legislature is not in session and upon recommendation of the State Budget Officer, the Governor may approve necessary adjustments to these consolidations for a period not to extend beyond the end of the current fiscal year.__The Director of the Office of Fiscal and Program Review must be notified of any such action.__The unencumbered balance of each administrative account established pursuant to this section must be carried forward at the end of each fiscal year, and the budgeted transfers to the administrative account for the ensuing fiscal year must be proportionally reduced by the amount of that carried balance.

PART U

Sec. U-1. 12 MRSA §685-E, first ¶, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 528, Pt. LL, §1 and affected by Pt. RRR and enacted by c. 591, Pt. LL, §1, is amended to read:

Notwithstanding section 685-D, beginning with fiscal year 1991-92 2005-06, funding for planning services and activities of the commission must be assessed and allocated to the unorganized territory in an amount not to exceed 10% 18% of the total General Fund appropriation to the commission.

Sec. U-2. 12 MRSA §9326 is enacted to read:

§9326.__Pilot project for issuing permits electronically

The Director of the Bureau of Forestry shall develop or cause to be developed a system to electronically issue permits for burning using a publicly accessible site on the Internet.__ Beginning July 1, 2005, the director may issue permits electronically for burning within the unorganized territory and