MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Appropriations

By: Representatives Simpson, Ishee

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 4 OF CHAPTER 50, LAWS OF 1998, TO REVISE THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE CITY OF GULFPORT MAY EXPEND AN ALLOCATION OF MONIES FROM THE TIDELANDS FUND; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 4, Chapter 50, Laws of 1998, is amended as follows:

Section 4. Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of Section 2 and allocated in Section 3, funds in the amount of Five Million Two Hundred Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($5,225,000.00) shall be derived from the Tidelands Fund, Fund No. 3450, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the following projects:

Department of Marine Resources Marina -

Back Bay Marina Biloxi/Biloxi Port

Commission $ 500,000.00

Department of Marine Resources -

Discretionary Funds $ 1,050,000.00

Department of Marine Resources -

Derelict Vessel Removal Program $ 100,000.00

Hancock County Bayou Caddy Marina $ 300,000.00

Pass Christian Harbor Emergency

Retrofit, Phase I $ 200,000.00

Long Beach Pier, Phase II $ 100,000.00

Long Beach Small Craft Harbor, Phase I $ 200,000.00

City of Biloxi Marina Point $ 200,000.00

Expansion of Maritime and Seafood

Industry Museum $ 200,000.00

City of D'Iberville Marina, Phase III $ 350,000.00

Jackson County Board of Supervisors (Gautier)-

Graveline Bayou extension $ 150,000.00

Pascagoula Round Island Project $ 100,000.00

Gulf Coast Research Lab -

Stock Assessment & Data Acquisition $ 75,000.00

Gulf Coast Research Lab - Blue

Crab Recruitment Dynamics $ 47,000.00

Gulf Coast Research Lab - Monitoring

Exotic Viruses in Mississippi Shrimp $ 87,000.00

Gulf Coast Research Lab - Project Marine

Discovery on the Road $ 50,000.00

Gulf Coast Research Lab - Optimizing Shellfish

Harvest and Management in the Mississippi

Sound $ 97,000.00

Gulf Coast Research Lab - Mississippi Planned

Grand Bay Preserve - Prep Research/Base

Line Study $ 19,000.00

Gautier City Park - Phase II $ 100,000.00

Waveland - Garfield Ladner Pier $ 300,000.00

Bay St. Louis - Ulman Ave. Pier $ 400,000.00

DMR - Keegan Bayou Project $ 50,000.00

Moss Point Waterfront Access & Dev. $ 250,000.00

Gulfport - Restoration of storm

damage to Moses Pier $ 200,000.00

DMR/Department of Environmental Quality -

Non-point Source Pollution Control $ 100,000.00

TOTAL $ 5,225,000.00

Each political subdivision receiving funds authorized in this section shall be held responsible for complying with Section 29-15-9, Mississippi Code of 1972, and shall be subject to an audit by the State Auditor and shall submit detailed reports on December 31 and June 30 to the Commission on Marine Resources on how funds authorized in this section were expended.

It is the intention of the Legislature that any political subdivision seeking to qualify for Tidelands Funds for the subsequent fiscal year shall submit a proposal to the Commission on Marine Resources no later than July 1, 1998.

It is the intention of the Legislature that if the amount of Tidelands Funds appropriated in this act exceed the actual amount of Tidelands Funds available, the available funds shall be allocated on a pro rata basis between projects listed in this section.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.