SB 5435-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

     Directs the commission to develop recommendations for legislative and executive consideration and implementation that will:  (1) Increase the reliance upon environmental strategies that emphasize market incentives, pollution prevention, public education, and technical assistance;

     (2) reduce inefficiency, duplication, and inconsistency in program implementation by local, state, and federal agencies;

     (3) achieve greater consistency among the goals, standards, and objectives of existing environmental quality statutes, and assist the legislature in better integrating new statutory goals and objectives to existing statutory provisions;

     (4) build upon the recommendations of the land use study commission for integrating the state's environmental and growth management program;

     (5) ensure that the relative priority of environmental threats to the state is a central consideration in the development of state  operating and capital budgets for environmental programs;

     (6) achieve a uniform, consistent, and high-quality periodic assessment of the state's environmental quality, improve monitoring and data management relating to environmental quality, and establish a system to assess state-wide environmental trends over time to assist in developing policies and budgets; and

     (7) reduce or eliminate environmental programs or activities that do not provide a substantial contribution to maintaining the state's environmental quality.