| 1997 Fiscal Review Appropriations - Environment |
Pollution Control Agency
The 1997 Legislature appropriated $94.1 million to the Pollution Control Agency (PCA) for the 1997-99 biennium which is an 18.2 percent increase over the last biennium. The major sources of the increase are $6.4 million appropriated in the bonding bill from the waste tire account in the Environmental Fund for Superfund and several other General Fund initiatives including $2.1 million for water quality monitoring, $1.9 million in funding for the water quality program, and $1 million for the individual sewage treatment systems grant program. The major sources of appropriations for the PCA are the environmental fund (47.9%) and the General Fund (30.2%). The environmental fund appro-priations consist of fees collected by the PCA and other money transferred to the fund. The table below provides a list of the funds along with the amounts and percentage of total funding.
| Fund | 1997-99 | % of Total |
| General | $ 28,411,000 | 30.2% |
| Petroleum Tank | 6,404,000 | 6.8% |
| State Government Special Revenue | 85,000 | 0.1% |
| Special Revenue | 1,495,000 | 1.6% |
| Environmental | 45,119,000 | 47.9% |
| Metropolitan Landfill Contingency | 277,000 | 0.3% |
| Solid Waste | 12,307,000 | 13.1% |
| Total | $ 94,098,000 | 100.0% |
| Purpose | 1997-99 | % of Total |
| Protection of the Water | $ 26,427,000 | 28.1% |
| Protection of the Air | 15,984,000 | 17.0% |
| Protection of the Land | 37,856,000 | 40.2% |
| General Support | 13,831,000 | 14.7% |
| Total | $ 94,098,000 | 100.0% |
The 1997 Legislature appropriated $41.1 million to the Office of Environmental Assistance (OEA) for the 1997-99 biennium, a .04 percent increase over the last biennium. Of this total, $38.5 million is from the General Fund and $2.6 million is from the environmental fund. Within the General Fund appropriation to the OEA is $28 million for recycling grants to counties based on population. The recycling grants program was established as a part of recycling legislation in 1989.
Public Facilities Authority
The 1997 Legislature appropriated $7 million for the wastewater infrastructural program. $3 million is from the General Fund and $4 million is from bond proceeds. This appropriation is added to the $22.1 million in bond proceeds appropriated to the program by the 1996 Legislature.