PRINTER'S NO. 1780
No. 1276 Session of 1984
INTRODUCED BY RHOADES, ANDREZESKI, BRIGHTBILL, KUSSE, WENGER,
SHUMAKER, HOPPER, O'CONNELL, STOUT, HELFRICK, SHAFFER,
KELLEY, REIBMAN, WILT, CORMAN, LOEPER, O'PAKE, STREET,
LINCOLN, MUSTO, ZEMPRELLI, MELLOW, EARLY, BODACK, PECORA,
SINGEL, SCANLON, MOORE, KRATZER, SNYDER, LLOYD, STAPLETON AND
LEWIS, FEBRUARY 29, 1984
REFERRED TO GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 29, 1984
AN ACT
1 Providing for the adoption of capital projects to be financed
2 from current revenues of the Game Fund.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Short title.
6 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Game Fund
7 Capital Budget Act for 1984-1985.
8 Section 2. Total authorization.
9 (a) Subject to the limitations set forth in subsection (b),
10 the total authorization for the capital projects in the category
11 of public improvement projects to be acquired by the
12 Pennsylvania Game Commission and to be financed from current
13 revenues of the Game Fund pursuant to executive authorizations
14 shall be $4,839,267.
15 (b) Notwithstanding the total authorization in subsection
16 (a), the total executive authorizations for fiscal year 1984-
1 1985 for the capital projects itemized in section 3 shall not
2 exceed $3,000,000, which sum contains the amount of $944,634,
3 which is one-third of the purchase price for the Blair County
4 tract, the remaining two-thirds of the price to be paid in
5 fiscal years 1985-1986 and 1986-1987.
6 Section 3. Itemization of capital projects.
7 The individual capital projects in the category of public
8 improvement projects to be acquired by the Pennsylvania Game
9 Commission and to be financed from current revenues of the Game
10 Fund pursuant to executive authorizations are hereby itemized
11 together with their respective estimated costs as follows:
12 County and Township Acres Cost
13 (1) Blair County
14 (i) Land Acquisi-
15 tion - Antis
16 & Snyder Twps.
17 (Payment of
18 this acquisition
19 to be on an
20 installment basis
21 for three fiscal
22 years:
23 one-third in
24 1984-1985;
25 one-third in
26 1985-1986;
27 one-third in
28 1986-1987) 16,750 $2,833,900
29 (2) Centre County
30 (i) Land Acquisi-
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1 tion - Half
2 Moon Twp. 325 122,000
3 (3) Elk County
4 (i) Land Acquisi-
5 tion - Spring
6 Creek Twp. 1,775 523,200
7 (4) Jefferson County
8 (i) Land Acquisi-
9 tion - Heath
10 Twp. 1,760 519,900
11 (5) Monroe County
12 (i) Land Acquisi-
13 tion Tunkhannock
14 & Jackson
15 Twps. 1,400 420,000
16 (6) Northampton County
17 (i) Land Acquisi-
18 tion - Upper
19 Mt. Bethel
20 Twp. 500 150,000
21 (7) Somerset County
22 (i) Land Acquisi-
23 tion - Stoneycreek
24 Twp. 1,350 270,267
25 Section 4. Effective date.
26 This act shall take effect July 1, 1984 or, if enacted
27 subsequent to that date, then immediately.
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