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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 3134 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6644 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 3134 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. HAMPTON, 16th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT REQUIRING AN EVALUATION OF PUBLIC LANDS IN THE | |
| 19 | 19 | CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE, BIODIVERSITY AND PUBLIC | |
| 20 | 20 | HEALTH. | |
| 21 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 22 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 24 | 24 | That the general statutes be amended to quantify the contribution of 1 | |
| 25 | 25 | state-owned working and natural lands to mitigate negative air 2 | |
| 26 | 26 | emissions and determine the future stewardship of public lands in the 3 | |
| 27 | 27 | context of projected landscape-scale changes in the state in the next 4 | |
| 28 | 28 | fifty years, particularly regarding the capacity for natural lands to 5 | |
| 29 | 29 | sequester carbon, mitigate flooding and protect native biodiversity and 6 | |
| 30 | 30 | wildlife corridors and to evaluate the contribution of public lands to 7 | |
| 31 | 31 | physical and mental health across the state, including aspects such as 8 | |
| 32 | 32 | clean air and water, disease prevention, recreation and solace. Finally, 9 | |
| 33 | 33 | to identify and protect any old growth forest habitat. 10 | |
| 34 | 34 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 35 | 35 | To evaluate to role of public lands to mitigate negative emissions in | |
| 36 | 36 | order to achieve the state's climate goals. |