Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 289 - Solid waste facilities.
289.68 - Payments from the waste management fund and related payments.

289.68 Payments from the waste management fund and related payments.
(1) Payments from the waste management fund. The department may expend moneys in the waste management fund only for the purposes specified under subs. (3) to (6) and 1991 Wisconsin Act 39, section 9142 (2w). The department may expend moneys appropriated under s. 20.370 (4) (dq) for the purposes specified under subs. (3) and (5) and 1991 Wisconsin Act 39, section 9142 (2w). The department may expend moneys appropriated under s. 20.370 (4) (dt) for the purposes specified under sub. (4). The department may expend moneys appropriated under s. 20.370 (4) (dy) and (dz) for the purposes specified under sub. (6).
(2) Payments from the investment and local impact fund. The department may expend moneys received from the investment and local impact fund only for the purposes specified under sub. (3), only for approved mining facilities and only if moneys in the waste management fund are insufficient to make complete payments. The amount expended by the department under this subsection may not exceed the balance in the waste management fund at the beginning of that fiscal year or 50 percent of the balance in the investment and local impact fund at the beginning of that fiscal year, whichever amount is greater.
(3) Payments for long-term care after termination of proof of financial responsibility. The department may spend moneys appropriated under s. 20.370 (4) (dq) for the costs of long-term care of an approved facility for which the plan of operation was approved under s. 289.30 (6) before August 9, 1989, that accrue after the requirement to provide proof of financial responsibility expires under s. 289.41 (1m) (b) or (f) as authorized under s. 289.41 (11) (b) 2.
(4) Payment of closure and long-term care costs; forfeited bonds and similar moneys. The department may utilize moneys appropriated under s. 20.370 (4) (dt) for the payment of costs associated with compliance with closure and long-term care requirements under s. 289.41 (11) (b) 1.
(5) Prevention of imminent hazard. The department may utilize moneys appropriated under s. 20.370 (4) (dq) for the payment of costs associated with imminent hazards as authorized under s. 289.41 (11) (c) and (cm).
(6) Payment of corrective action, forfeited bonds and recovered moneys. The department may utilize moneys appropriated under s. 20.370 (4) (dy) and (dz) for the payment of costs of corrective action under s. 289.41 (11) (bm).
(7) Report on waste management fund. With its biennial budget request to the department of administration under s. 16.42, the natural resources board shall include a report on the fiscal status of the waste management fund and an estimate of the receipts by and expenditures from the fund in the current fiscal year and in the future.
History: 1995 a. 227 s. 590, 591; 2017 a. 59.

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