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SCS/SB 198 - Current law permits the Department of Natural Resources to enter into cooperative agreements with nonprofit organizations that provide cooperative, interpretive, or educational services to any one state park. This act adds facility enhancement to the list of permissible activities for a cooperative agreement and allows organizations to provide services to any state park as opposed to just one. The act allows the Department to provide incidental staff support to an organization with which the Department has a cooperative agreement. Cooperative agreements created under this act must require the organizations to reimburse the Department for actual costs of park facility space and staff support as well as demonstrate the fiscal, interpretive, educational, and facility enhancement benefits to the state. Proceeds from the sale of any services provided under a cooperative agreement must be used by the cooperative organization for interpretive or educational services in state parks. This act is identical to HB 75 (2007). ERIKA JAQUES
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