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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 27A. ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

  § 27A-3-3-108. Long-range program and annual work plan - Annual report - Dissemination of works and activities information.  

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  • A.  1.  Each district organized under the Conservation District Act shall prepare and keep current a long-range program for the conservation of all the renewable natural resources of the district.  The program shall be directed toward conservation of resources for their best uses and in a manner that will best meet the needs of the district and the state, and be consistent with the best uses of the renewable natural resources of the state.

    2.  The program shall include:

    a.an inventory of all renewable natural resources in the district,

    b.a compilation of current resource needs,

    c.projections of future resource requirements,

    d.priorities for various resource activities,

    e.projected timetables, and

    f.provisions for coordination with other resource programs.

    B.  The district shall also prepare an annual work plan, that shall describe the action programs, services, facilities, materials, working arrangements and estimated funds needed to carry out the parts of the long-range program that are of the highest priorities.

    C.  1.  Every district shall publish an annual report of its plans, programs, activities, budget, receipts, and expenditures.

    2.  The report shall include therein:

    a.descriptions of its official Resources Conservation Program,

    b.the current annual program related thereto, and

    c.the status of all activities initiated under the program.

    3.  Each district:

    a.shall submit copies of each annual report to the Governor of the state and to the State Conservation Commission, which shall furnish a copy thereof to the appropriate state legislative officers, in accordance with rules concerning the reports to be issued by the Commission,

    b.shall make copies of the reports, and summaries and digests thereof, available to all federal, state and local cooperating agencies and shall make suitable distribution to the general public, and

    c.may publish additional information and reports as may be necessary and appropriate.

    D.  Every district shall, through public hearings, publications and other means, keep the general public, and all operators or occupiers of land within the district, informed of the works and activities planned and administered by the district, of the purposes these will serve, of the income and expenditures of the district, the purposes for which the funds are expended, and of the results achieved annually by the district.

    E.  Each district shall submit to the Commission its proposed long-range program and annual work plans for adoption, rejection, modification or revision.

Added by Laws 1971, c. 346, § 15-601, operative July 1, 1971.  Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 222, eff. July 1, 1993.  Renumbered from Title 82, § 1501-601 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.  Amended by Laws 2008, c. 110, § 4, emerg. eff. May 2, 2008.