(3)__Ten percent of each fee or surcharge must be credited to the county in which the river is located for distribution among the affected municipalities and for use in the affected unorganized townships.

B.__All money from the fund must be expended solely for purposes related to river recreation, with primary emphasis on those activities that relate to whitewater trips, including, but not limited to, administration, regulation, safety education, enforcement, mitigation of environmental and safety problems and mitigation of any adverse effect on competing use of the river.__The fund may not be used to pay the cost of administering the whitewater outfitters' license program or the guide license program.

C.__Any amount of the fund that is not expended at the end of a fiscal year does not lapse but must be carried forward.

D.__The Legislature shall appropriate to the department in each fiscal year an amount equal to the administrative costs incurred by the department in collecting revenue under this section.__Those costs must be verified by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services.

SUBCHAPTER 6

MAINE OUTDOOR HERITAGE FUND

§10301.__Definitions

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.

1.__Acquisition.__"Acquisition" means fee ownership, easement, lease, right-of-way and other less-than-fee interests in land.

2.__Board.__"Board" means the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund Board.

3.__Coordinator of the Natural Areas Program.__"Coordinator of the Natural Areas Program" means the person appointed by the Commissioner of Conservation to be responsible for coordinating the Natural Areas Program.