8003d

The Environmental Quality Board shall contract, if it should deem necessary, to be charged to its next three annual budgetary appropriations and starting at the beginning of the next fiscal year, such services as indispensable so that within a term of three years, all works, research and studies of a scientific nature in existence on the subject of the environment and the natural resources recommended by the Advisory Council which are not on digitized format, are recorded into computer-accessible formats. The Environmental Quality Board shall begin with works, research or studies deemed to be essential for starting a National Digitized Environmental Information System, for which purpose, the Board shall follow the recommendations of the Advisory Council. History —Sept. 22, 2004, No. 416, § 27, eff. 6 months after Sept. 22, 2004.