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0692S
The
Senate Natural Resources and the Environment Committee offered the following
substitute to SB 380:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Part 2 of Article 1 of Chapter 23 of Title 50 of the Official Code of
Georgia Annotated, relating to the water supply division of the Georgia
Environmental Facilities Authority, so as to provide that the division shall
have the authority to make loans and grants to local governments for the
expansion of existing reservoirs; to provide criteria; to repeal conflicting
laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Part
2 of Article 1 of Chapter 23 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to the water supply division of the Georgia Environmental
Facilities Authority, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as
follows:
"50-23-28.1.
(a)
The division may make loans and grants to a local government to pay all or any
part of the cost of expanding and increasing the capacity of existing
reservoirs. Such loans and grants shall be made as provided in Code Section
50-23-6. The criteria used in consideration for requests for assistance shall
include, but not be limited to:
(1)
The effect of recurring drought on the region;
(2)
Interconnectivity of the requesting entity's water supply system with one or
more surrounding local governments;
(3)
Facilitating public-private partnerships; and
(4)
Unique regional conditions.
(b)
The division shall issue requests for proposals not later than July 1, 2010.
All such proposals shall be submitted to the division not later than September
1, 2010. Awards shall be made not later than October 1,
2010."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.