Appropriates and transfers from the General Fund $34,500,000 to the Fire Suppression Deficiency Fund for fiscal year 2017.

This is a fiscal year 2017 appropriation and transfer of $34.5 million from the General Fund to the Fire Suppression Deficiency Fund. It is the average of the last three years of estimated fire suppression costs paid by the Idaho Department of Lands to suppress wild fires on lands protected by the state and two timber protective associations. That is, $34.5 million is the average of $15.6 millionforcalendaryear2013, $27.7millionforcalendaryear2014, and$60.2millionforcalendar year 2015.