All Fish and Wildlife Legislation - Kentucky

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 151 to define "fees-in-lieu," hydrologic unit code," "mitigation organization," "mitigation," "restoration," "riparian," "Section 404 permit," "watershed," "USACE" and "2020 water management planning council"; require restoration and mitigation planning to be on a watershed basis; grant permissive authority for the creation of seven-member Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authorities for each watershed in the Commonwealth; specify the function and powers of the Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authorities; allow 2020 water management planning councils to contact water service coordinators to request assistance with establishing authorities and nominate members; require members of the authority to serve ex officio on 2020 water management planning councils; attach the authorities to the Department for Natural Resources; vest authorities with public stewardship responsibility over the watershed's water resources and riparian environments; require authorities [...]

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Amend KRS 148.795 to define certain terms related to the operation of the Kentucky Recreational Trails Authority; to expand the membership of the authority with representation from the Kentucky Motorcycle Association, League of Kentucky Sportsmen, Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts, ATV association representatives, hiking or backpacking organizations, Kentucky Horse Council, and others; authorize the Kentucky Recreational Trails Authority and other governmental entities to enter into recreational land use agreements through contractual arrangements establishing allowable purposes; establish provisions that these recreational land use agreements do not ensure certain privileges or rights; allow governmental entities to construct, improve, renovate, finance or otherwise provide for recreational activities and facilities on designated public and private lands where owners have entered into land use agreements with the authority or a governmental entity; provide for establishment [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 150 to define "adjacent property owner," "department-owned lakes," "structures," and "approved structures"; allow adjacent property owners that own land adjacent to a lake owned by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to apply for a permit to erect structures on the banks, shoreline, or into the water of the lake; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations to establish the process, forms, fees, and criteria for review of applications; require a decision on an application be given in not more than 90 days; allow the department to inspect structures and remove those found to be noncompliant; allow the department to order owners to remove structures found to be noncompliant; waive all structures constructed on or before July 1, 2007, on department-owned lakes of more than 675 acres situated in the Green River basin; prohibit demolition of waived structures except under certain circumstances; amend KRS 150.990 to establish fines [...]

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