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| 3 | 3 | | - 82nd Session (2023) |
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| 4 | 4 | | Senate Bill No. 88–Committee on Natural Resources |
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| 6 | 6 | | CHAPTER.......... |
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| 8 | 8 | | AN ACT relating to natural resources; requiring the Joint Interim |
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| 9 | 9 | | Standing Committee on Natural Resources to conduct an |
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| 10 | 10 | | interim study of state agencies that regulate natural resources; |
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| 11 | 11 | | and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
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| 12 | 12 | | Legislative Counsel’s Digest: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Existing law creates the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Natural |
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| 14 | 14 | | Resources, consisting of certain members of the Assembly and Senate, to study |
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| 15 | 15 | | issues related to natural resources during the legislative interim period. (NRS |
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| 16 | 16 | | 218E.320, 218E.330) This bill requires the Committee to conduct a study during |
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| 17 | 17 | | the 2023-2024 interim concerning state agencies that regulate natural resources in |
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| 18 | 18 | | this State. The study must include, without limitation, an examination of the |
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| 19 | 19 | | composition, mission and scope of such state agencies. The Committee must |
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| 20 | 20 | | examine, without limitation, the Board of Wildlife Commissioners, the |
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| 21 | 21 | | Commission on Mineral Resources, the State Department of Conservation and |
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| 22 | 22 | | Natural Resources and the State Environmental Commission. Further, the |
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| 23 | 23 | | Committee must submit a report of its findings and any recommendations for |
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| 24 | 24 | | legislation relating to the study to the 83rd Session of the Nevada Legislature. |
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| 26 | 26 | | EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. |
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| 29 | 29 | | THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN |
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| 30 | 30 | | SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: |
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| 32 | 32 | | Section 1. 1. The Joint Interim Standing Committee on |
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| 33 | 33 | | Natural Resources shall conduct a study during the 2023-2024 |
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| 34 | 34 | | interim concerning state agencies that regulate natural resources. |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2. The study must include, without limitation, the examination |
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| 36 | 36 | | of the composition, mission and scope of state agencies that regulate |
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| 37 | 37 | | natural resources in this State. |
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| 38 | 38 | | 3. The Committee shall examine, without limitation: |
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| 39 | 39 | | (a) The Board of Wildlife Commissioners; |
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| 40 | 40 | | (b) The Commission on Mineral Resources; |
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| 41 | 41 | | (c) The State Department of Conservation and Natural |
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| 42 | 42 | | Resources; and |
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| 43 | 43 | | (d) The State Environmental Commission. |
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| 44 | 44 | | 4. The Committee shall include its findings and |
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| 45 | 45 | | recommendations for legislation relating to this study in the report |
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| 46 | 46 | | required by subsection 4 of NRS 218E.330 to be prepared and |
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| 47 | 47 | | submitted to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for |
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| 48 | 48 | | transmittal to the 83rd Session of the Legislature. |
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| 49 | 49 | | Sec. 2. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2023. |
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