2.__Report.__By February 1st of each year, the commissioner shall submit an annual report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over fisheries and wildlife matters and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs.__ The report must detail the amount of money collected in the fund over the course of the prior year and the expense of managing and maintaining the Maine Wildlife Park.__The commissioner shall make recommendations concerning how the fund may be increased or expenses reduced or both so that the Maine Wildlife Park becomes increasingly financially self-sustaining.

§10255.__Maine Environmental Trust Fund

1.__Fund established.__The Maine Environmental Trust Fund, referred to in this section as the "fund," is established as a nonlapsing fund administered by the commissioner for the purposes of improving state parks and historic sites by supporting the Maine State Parks Fund established in section 1825, subsection 2 and managing nongame wildlife by supporting the Maine Endangered and Nongame Wildlife Fund established in section 10253, subsection 1.__Money deposited with the Treasurer of State to the credit of the fund may be invested as provided by law.__Income from these investments must be credited to the fund.

2.__Fund sources.__The fund receives money deposited by the Treasurer of State pursuant to Title 29-A, section 455 and any other gift, grant or other source of revenue deposited for that use.

3.__Distribution from fund.__Money distributed from the fund may be used for marketing the plates and for the production and marketing of goods using the environmental plate design.__After the Treasurer of State has reimbursed the Secretary of State for costs of producing and issuing environmental registration plates in accordance with Title 29-A, section 455, the Treasurer of State shall, at the end of each quarter in the fiscal year, distribute the balance in the fund as follows: