8003g

The Environmental Quality Board is hereby authorized to use up to a maximum amount of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) available in the Environmental Emergency Fund each year for the next three (3) fiscal years to defray the installation and setting into operation of the National Digitized Environmental Information System. The Environmental Quality Board may also use, in order to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, any Commonwealth funds available to the Board in its special accounts or budgetary appropriations, as well as the federal funds available to the Board at present for this purpose or which it may receive in the future. As of Fiscal year 2005-2006, the Environmental Quality Board shall solicit funds as necessary in order to maintain and operate the System by incorporating this item into its annual budgetary appropriation. History —Sept. 22, 2004, No. 416, § 30, eff. 6 months after Sept. 22, 2004.