38 M.R.S. § 998 Commission Operating Procedures

• Library: Maine Revised Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through 131st (2023-2024) Legislature Chapter 486
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 38 M.R.S. § 998

1.Shared costs. The State and the Province of New Brunswick shall share the costs of developing and managing the St. Croix International Waterway Commission. To the extent feasible, the commission may seek to enter into arrangements with agencies of Canada and the United States to provide necessary services as the commission may request.

[ 1987, c. 470, § 2 (NEW) .]

2.Committees. There shall be 4 working committees: Land use; recreation; fisheries and wildlife; and nonrecreational uses, established to undertake the planning and to oversee the management of the uses and resources in the waterway area. The committees shall be staffed by personnel from line agencies of the State and the Province of New Brunswick. The working committees may appoint subcommittees as needed.

[ 1987, c. 470, § 2 (NEW) .]

3.Ex officio members; committee functions; plans. The working committees may invite elected community representatives, representatives from federal agencies, private citizens, members of citizen organizations and representatives from private sector commercial interests to serve on the committee in an ex officio capacity. Each committee shall prepare a preliminary plan designed to optimize the management of the uses or resources for which it has responsibility. These plans shall be submitted to the executive director of the commission who shall work with the committees to resolve conflicts and to integrate the plans into a unified management plan that is in accord with the objectives set forth in section 994 or as may be further spelled out by the commission. The executive director shall solicit public comments on the plan in both the State and the Province of New Brunswick. The executive director shall work with the working committees to revise, if necessary, the plan before presenting it to the commission for final adoption. The commission shall formally adopt the plan by consensus. The commission shall reassess the recreational and resource management plan at least once in every 4 years and shall submit its assessment, with any recommendations, to the State and the Province of New Brunswick.

[ 1987, c. 470, § 2 (NEW) .]

4.Budget. The commission shall submit annually to the State and the Provincial Government of New Brunswick a budget covering total anticipated expenditures to be financed from all sources and shall conduct its operations in accordance with the budget as approved by the State and the Province of New Brunswick.