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1998 SESSION
HB 671 Fishery Resource Grant Program; created.
Introduced by: Alan A. Diamonstein | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Commercial fishery grants. Establishes the Fishery Resource Grant Program. This program, to be administered by the Graduate Marine Science Consortium, a consortium made up of the graduate marine education departments at the College of William and Mary, Old Dominion University, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, will award grants to commercial fishermen for the following: new fisheries equipment, environmental pilot studies, aquaculture of marine-dependent species, or seafood technology. The bill also creates a seven-member advisory board to review grant proposals.
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HISTORY
- 01/22/98 House: Presented & ordered printed 986005204
- 01/22/98 House: Referred to Committee on Chesapeake and Its Tributaries
- 02/06/98 House: Reported from Ches. & Its Trib. w/amd. (18-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/98 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/14/98 House: Continued to 1999 in Appropriations (28-Y 0-N)