2013 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 12: CONSERVATION
Chapter 803: FOREST HEALTH AND MONITORING
12 §8430. Research

Part 11: FORESTRY
Subchapter 4-A: MAINE SPRUCE BUDWORM MANAGEMENT ACT

8430. Research

1. Authority. The Bureau of Forestry, acting through its director, with the approval of the commissioner, may make grants of funds and enter into contracts for purposes of research related to forest management strategies, insecticide and spray application technologies, integrated pest management techniques, forest product marketing and utilization and other issues pertinent to the purposes of this subchapter. This research may be funded with any funds available, provided that the cost of environmental and health monitoring of spray projects shall be part of annual spray project costs and not paid out of General Fund moneys.

[ 1981, c. 278, 12 (AMD); 2011, c. 657, Pt. W, 7 (REV); 2013, c. 405, Pt. A, 23 (REV) .]

2. Research on public lands. The commissioner, director or other chief executive officer of any state agency having jurisdiction over any public land may make that land available on such terms and conditions as he deems reasonable to any public or private nonprofit entity engaged in spruce budworm control research and related silvicultural control research. The director shall likewise encourage private landowners within the State to make their lands available for the same purposes.

[ 1987, c. 183, 4 (AMD) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1979, c. 737, 12 (NEW). 1981, c. 278, 12 (AMD). 1987, c. 183, 4 (AMD). 2011, c. 657, Pt. W, 7 (REV). 2013, c. 405, Pt. A, 23 (REV).