| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §436, as amended by PL 1999, c. 72, §8, is further | | amended to read: |
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| | | §436. Grants for technical assistance and research |
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| | | The commissioner may use all or a portion of the accrued | | interest in the cash balance of the Agricultural Marketing Loan | | Fund and interest portion of loan repayments, up to a maximum of | | $250,000 per year, for grants for technical assistance and the | | agricultural development grant program in chapter 10. The | | commissioner may expend grant dollars designated to an applicant | | in one fiscal year during the following fiscal year. |
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| | | This bill allows grants for technical assistance as one | | category of grants available under the Maine Revised Statutes, | | Title 7, section 436, which were inadvertently deleted in Public | | Law 1999, chapter 72. |
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