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I • CITY OF INO LAKES Local Water Management Plan Policy Document 10/24/94 Administration "customer" provides 50% cost share in the form of cash. The COE then completes the preliminary design or study. Wallop- Breaux Funds The program is called Wallop- Breaux referring to the Dingell Johnson program and the names for its sponsors, program and names primary s onsors Senator Malcolm Wallop (R -WY) and Senator John Breaux (D-LA). Its formal Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, of which name is for sportfishing enhancement ($215.3 million, part is used for is used for boating safety � 1992) and part S ty in each state ($70 million, in 1992). Wallop - Breaux is an example of a user-pays/user- benefits program, where taxes on an activity back into the activity's ' are strictly maintenance. The Internal Revenue Service collects the money and gives it to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service percent off the top for After taking 6 P administration, the service gives money to each state based on its relative size and the number of resident fishermen. No state receives more than 5 percent of the total, less than 1 percent. To obtain Wallop- Breaux funds,.. a. state sends a proposal to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service offi project must be "substantial in �- its- region.�� The there is no r character and design," but sport fishermen�inl requirement that percent went to�s�,benefits research. About half of the 6 percent the service surveys and for the staff that administers the funds. takes the $12 million a The rest of the $12 Year in administrative money is used for various special projects. Wallop - Breaux is supposed to be new money for new fishery improvements. But some of the money is being used to replace state funding from licenses and the general Ply treasury. conduit of dollars to Wildlife Service views itself as the states. SEH NO: LINOL9402.00 Page 43