• Certifies the reimbursement amount due.

• Certifies, based on documentation filed in the county, that the cost-shared practice is properly designed, installed and paid for (see above).

Cost-share funds may be used to finance conservation practices identified in this rule (see above), except that bond revenues may not be used to finance any of the following practices:

• Conservation tillage.

• Contour farming.

• Cropland cover (green manure).

• Intensive grazing management.

• Nutrient or pesticide management.

• Strip-cropping.

DATCP may not use cost-share grant funds to reimburse a county for costs incurred after December 31 of the grant year (or paid after January 31 of the following year). Unspent funds remain with DATCP, for distribution under a future year's allocation plan. If a landowner signs a funded cost-share contract by December 1 of the initial grant year, but does not complete that contract in that grant year (e.g., because of bona fide construction delays), DATCP may extend funding to the next year. DATCP will normally extend funding if the county requests the extension by December 31. DATCP will not extend funding for more than one year.

A county land conservation committee must keep all of the following records related to cost-share grant funds received from DATCP:

• Copies of all county cost-share contracts with landowners.

• Documentation to support each county reimbursement request to DATCP (see above).

• Documentation showing all county receipts and disbursements of grant funds.

• Other records needed to document county compliance with this rule and the grant contract.

A county land conservation committee must retain cost-share records for at least 3 years after the committee makes its last cost-share payment to the landowner, or for the duration of the required maintenance period, whichever is longer. The committee must make the records available to DATCP and grant auditors upon request.

DATCP currently provides grants to pay for county soil and water conservation staff (see above). Under the redesigned nonpoint source pollution abatement program, DATCP will also fund county and local staff who are still engaged in DNR's priority watershed program. Funding for these county staff will be added to, and included in, DATCP's annual staffing grants to counties.

For each type of agricultural engineering practice, the rating form identifies 5 job classes requiring progressively more complex planning, design and construction. Under this rule, the field engineer must identify the most complex of the 5 job classes for which the applicant is authorized to certify that the practice is properly designed and installed. A certified practitioner may not certify any agricultural engineering practice in a job class more complex than that for which the practitioner is certified.

If the appeal is not resolved, DATCP must schedule an informal hearing before a qualified DATCP employee other than the field engineer. After the informal hearing, the presiding officer must issue a written decision that affirms, modifies or reverses the field engineer's action. If the applicant disputes the presiding officer's decision, the applicant may request a formal hearing under ch. 227, Stats.

Counties must submit relevant ordinances for review. They need not obtain DATCP approval of their proposed ordinances, except in specific cases provided by statute. This rule, like current rules, establishes specific standards for county and local ordinances related to manure storage and agricultural shoreland management (see below).

Under this rule, a county or local manure storage ordinance adopted under s. 92.16, Stats., must require persons constructing manure storage systems to obtain a county or local permit. A person constructing a manure storage system must have a nutrient management plan that complies with this rule, and must comply with applicable design and construction standards.

A manure storage ordinance may prohibit any person from abandoning a manure storage system unless that person submits an abandonment plan and obtains an abandonment permit. The rule spells out suggested abandonment requirements for those ordinances that regulate abandonment.

NRCS technical guide nutrient management standard 590 is attached as Appendix D to this rule. Appendix B contains a summary of UWEX publication A-2809, Soil Test Recommendations for Field, Vegetable and Fruit Crops (copyright 1998), for selected crops. The department is seeking permission from the attorney general and revisor of statutes to incorporate the complete UWEX publication by reference in this rule. The complete publication and the summary are available from UW-extension, and will be on file with the department, the secretary of state and the revisor of statutes.

You may obtain a free copy of the environmental assessment by contacting Bonnie Shebelski at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Bureau of Land and Water Resources, 2811 Agricultural Drive, P.O. Box 8911, Madison, Wisconsin 53708-8911, telephone: 608/224-4620. Copies will also be available at the hearings.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to authority vested in the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers and Land Surveyors in ss. 15.08 (5) (b) and 227.11 (2), Stats., and interpreting s. 443.06 (2) (am), Stats., the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers and Land Surveyors will hold a public hearing at the time and place indicated below to consider an order to amend s. A-E 6.04 (2) (b), relating to the number of required semester credits in land surveying for an applicant applying with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

Interested persons are invited to present information at the hearing. Persons appearing may make an oral presentation but are urged to submit facts, opinions and argument in writing as well. Facts, opinions and argument may also be submitted in writing without a personal appearance by mail addressed to the Department of Regulation and Licensing, Office of Administrative Rules, P.O. Box 8935, Madison, Wisconsin 53708. Written comments must be received by October 25, 2001 to be included in the record of rule-making proceedings.

Statute interpreted: s. 443.06 (2) (am), Stats.

Current rules of the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers and Land Surveyors require a land surveyor applicant applying with a degree in civil engineering of not less than 4 years duration from a college or university, to have only 12 credits in courses concentrating on land surveyor education. The proposed rule will require a candidate to complete core land surveying courses that the Land Surveyors Section deems necessary as the minimal competency educational standard for the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the citizenry of Wisconsin.

SECTION 1. A-E 6.04 (2) (b) is amended to read:

A-E 6.04 (2) (b) Received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering of not less than 4 years duration from a college or university accredited by a regional accrediting agency approved by the state where the college or university is located. The curriculum shall include no less than 12 24 semester credits in courses concentrating on the legal principles of land surveying and the technical aspects of land surveying. These courses shall include areas of study such as research of public and private records, principles of evidence and the interpretation of written documents used in boundary determination, the study of the legal elements of land surveying including those involving resurveys, boundary disputes, defective descriptions, riparian rights and adverse possession, the study of the professional and judicial functions of a land surveyor, the study of surveying methods for measuring distance and angular values, note keeping, computation and writing descriptions and the study of the Wisconsin statutes and local ordinances relating to the preparation of subdivision maps and plats.

1. The anticipated fiscal effect on the fiscal liability and revenues of any local unit of government of the proposed rule is: $0.00.

2. The projected anticipated state fiscal effect during the current biennium of the proposed rule is: $0.00.

3. The projected net annualized fiscal impact on state funds of the proposed rule is: $0.00.

These proposed rules will be reviewed by the department through its Small Business Review Advisory Committee to determine whether there will be an economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses, as defined in s. 227.114 (1) (a), Stats.

Copies of this proposed rule are available without cost upon request to: Pamela Haack, Department of Regulation and Licensing, Office of Administrative Rules, 1400 East Washington Avenue, Room 171, P.O. Box 8935, Madison, Wisconsin 53708 (608) 266-0495.