Bill > S472

This bill establishes a comprehensive adaptation management plan in response to climate change in Massachusetts. The key provisions include: - Requiring the Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs and the Secretary of Public Safety and Security to develop, adopt, and revise a comprehensive adaptation management action plan at least once every 10 years, with input from a 21-member advisory commission. - Outlining the required components of the plan, including goals and principles for resiliency, data on climate trends, assessment of vulnerabilities in emergency response and infrastructure, and strategies to preserve and protect natural resources. - Requiring state agencies, state authorities, and public utilities to develop and update vulnerability and adaptation assessments for their assets based on the plan. - Establishing a regional comprehensive climate change adaptation management action plan grant program to assist regional planning agencies in developing and implementing adaptation plans. - Authorizing the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs to acquire land that has been substantially and repeatedly damaged by severe weather for conservation and recreation purposes. The bill also removes the expiration date for a previous climate change adaptation report required by the legislature.

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Budget and Finance

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S472