HB 62: Natural Resources Large Project Funding
2007 General Session

Sponsor: Select Natural Resource Funding Committee

In 2005, the Legislature established a permanent trust account (the Wildlife and Natural Resource Funding Act) to preserve wildlife and wildlife habitat in Wyoming. While the corpus of the account is inviolate, interest income is dedicated to fund projects carried out by government and nonprofit agencies to improve and maintain fish and wildlife habitat and to mitigate the impacts of residential, mineral and industrial development across the state. Individual projects that cost $200,000 or more require legislative approval.

HB 62 authorized funding for two large projects under the Wildlife and Natural Resource Funding Act that have been approved by the board of the trust fund. The Bates Creek Watershed Restoration project received $200,000 and the Lander Front mule deer project received $230,000.

HB 62 received unanimous support during every vote it encountered, including all committee votes and House and Senate third reading (final passage) votes.

Enrolled