This new approach, compensatory mitigation for marine bycatch (CMMB), is conceived as a way to replace or reduce mandated restrictions on fishing activities with compensatory activities (e.g., removal of introduced predators from islands) funded by levies placed on fishers.
In his State of the State address in January, he said his administration would seek to reduce state mandates by the Legislature's deadline to pass a budget, on April 1.
To help ease the pain of the $4 billion reduction in state financing for public education, and in an attempt to reduce state mandates at the district level, lawmakers exempted school districts from having to collect and report the data on a significant number of students.
He has talked about reducing the mandates and paperwork that principals face and encouraging them to be "entrepreneurial risk-takers".
I agree with you on some key points — the state must find ways to reduce the unfunded mandates it puts upon schools, counties and municipalities; to bring its personnel costs under control; and to facilitate school district consolidations when appropriate.
Mandates reduce the ability of any specific party to manipulate or hinder the market by limiting access to biofuels.
If we reduce the RFS mandates in the energy bill (as some have called for) we are likely to reduce the investment in next generation cellulosic fuels with disastrous consequences for our energy security and the environment.
The material left over at ethanol factories, called distiller's grains, are still animal feed, Bob Dinneen, president of the group, pointed out, and reducing the mandate would not lower corn prices, he said.
Restoration on farmland however threatens agricultural output and the livelihoods of small family farmers, leading to weak enforcement of the law and a national debate over the Code which resulted in revisions in 2012 that significantly reduced legally mandated restoration.
One possible explanation is that annual eye and foot exams, unlike SMBG, require more effort from health providers than from the patients, and state mandates do not directly affect providers' practice pattern, although the mandates reduced the burden of filing paperwork claiming authorization[ 24].
