Series 2558: Constituent Correspondence, 2000-2003
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From: <Mccaleb5thdist@aol.com> To: jesse@mail.osa.state.ms.us; administrator@sos.state.ms.us; GMcWhorter@sos.state.ms.us CC: johnstossel@abcnew.com; roxanne.russell@dmr.state.ms.us; Governor Musgrove; Susan Fijman Created: 7/16/2000 10:58 AM Subject: Miss-Code Ann section 49-15-301 (1972) Message: Secretary of State Eric Clark I do not believe the Wildlife Rehabilitation & Nature Preservation Society, Inc. Located in the wood on land owned by the University of Southern Mississippi. In Pass Christian, Mississippi is qualified for, "Public Access projects and 50% be dedicated to Management projects." MISS. CODE ANN. Section 49-15-301 (1972) provides for the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources to be the sole administrator of the Public Trust Tidelands Act. The commissionGs fifteen-year plan proposes that 50% of Tidelands Funds be dedicated to Public Access projects and 50% be dedicated to Management projects. Public Access projects involve the construction and acquisition of coastal resources (i.e., boat ramps, breakwaters, marinas, harbor repairs, piers), while Tidelands Management projects involve the conservation, reclamation, education, enhancement, preservation, and acquisition of marine-related coastal resources. The commission annually provides the Legislature with its recommended funding distribution plan for Management projects, as well as a list of applicants for Public Access projects. In appropriating funds to DMR, the Legislature designates projects to be funded with Tidelands Funds in accordance with MISS. CODE ANN. Section 29-15-9. Upon receiving the Tidelands Funds from the Secretary of State in September or October, DMR enters into grant agreements with each local governing authority or private entity designated by the Legislature and distributes the appropriated amount of funds to each. DMR enters into a grant agreement with each local governing authority or entity designated by the Legislature to receive Tidelands Funds for Public Access or Management projects. PEER reviewed the thirty-one FY 1998 projects to determine if local entitiesG compliance with DMR grant agreement provisions. One hundred percent of local governing authorities or private entities which received FY 1998 Tidelands Funds for Public Access projects failed to comply with DMR grant agreement provisions. Only two of the seventeen local governing authorities or private entities which received FY 1998 Tidelands Funds for Management projects complied with DMR grant agreement provisions. Local governing authoritiesG and private entitiesG failure to comply with DMR grant agreement provisions decreases the entitiesG accountability for Tidelands Funds, and, thus, the stateGs management of such funds. Steven A. McCaleb - Attachment Filename: C:\archives\governor\mail\Governor Musgrove\_attach\Miss-Code Ann section 49-15-301 (1972)\Mime.822
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