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Highlights of sportsmen–related testimony during the 2013 NY DEC budget hearing

DEC Commissioner Joe Martens

Discusses FWS audit of budget causing problems with eligibility for federal sport fish and wildlife restoration funds:

CFAB, FWMB, and NYSCC

License fees and Conservation Fund, among other things.

Mark Grisanti, 60th Senate District, Chairman of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee

License fees, pheasant farm, conservation fund, federal sport fish and wildlife restoration funds

Sean Ryan 48th Senate District

Pheasant farm, fish hatcheries

Sweeney assembly

Federal sport fish and wildlife restoration funds

Daniel Stec 114th District Assembly

Opposes Land Acquisition with EP funds which were increased $19 million this year

Otis, 91st District Assembly

Wants the DEC to emphasis engineering solutions for flood mitigation over eco-based land solutions. In other word; construction instead of restoration of natural systems which buffer storms and floods with associated benefits to recreation and ecology.

NY Audubon Society

Testifies about federal sport fish and wildlife restoration funds and sweeping of conservation fund. Hunters may be surprised that a NY bird watchers organization, has been watching the federal funds paid into by sportsmen via excise taxes on guns, ammo, archery gear, and some hunting and fishing equipment other than guns and ammo and outboard oil.

Nature Conservancy

Explains its role as a land trust, including its purchase of the Finch property to be sold to the DEC over a five year installment.

William Cook, Citizens Campaign for the Environment

Explains he was involved in from the beginning of the EPF and indicates the original intent had only the purpose of land acquisition. This fund now has several accounts for diverse uses, however it puts the strain on the DEC to administer the fund into those diverse uses, such as pumping water in Queens to alleviate basement flooding of residents.

Grisanti - Asks DEC to look at an agriculture special interest “ASAP”

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