This amendment increases the fee for a Resident Small Game Hunting and Fishing Permit to reflect a more current cost adjustment based on changes in the Consumer Price Index.
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Title 3 – Department of Conservation
Division 10 – Conservation Commission
Chapter 5—Wildlife Code: Permits
Proposed Amendment
Proposed Amendment
To chase, pursue, take, possess and transport fish, frogs, mussels, clams, turtles, crayfish, live bait, birds (except turkeys) and mammals (except black bears, deer and elk), and to sell furbearers taken by hunting. Fee: [nineteen dollars ($19)]twenty dollars and fifty cents ($20.50).
PUBLIC ENTITY COST: This proposed amendment will not cost state agencies or political subdivisions more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate.
PRIVATE ENTITY COST: This proposed amendment will cost private entities an estimated one hundred fifty-three thousand eight hundred thirty-seven dollars ($153,837) annually in the aggregate.
NOTICE TO SUBMIT COMMENTS: Anyone may file a statement in support of or in opposition to this proposed amendment with Regulations Committee Chairman, Department of Conservation, P.O. Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180, or via the department’s website at https://short.mdc.mo.gov/Z49. To be considered, comments must be received within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice in the Missouri Register. No public hearing is scheduled.
FISCAL NOTE
PRIVATE ENTITY COST
I. Department Title: Department of Conservation
Division Title: Division 10 – Conservation Commission
Chapter Title: Chapter 5—Wildlife Code: Permits
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Rule Number and Name: |
3 CSR 10-5.330 Resident Small Game Hunting and Fishing Permit |
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Type of Rulemaking: |
Proposed Amendment |
II. SUMMARY OF FISCAL IMPACT
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Estimate of the number of entities by class which would likely be affected by the adoption of the proposed rule: |
Classification by types of the business entities which would likely be affected: |
Estimate in the aggregate as to the cost of compliance with the rule by the affected entities: |
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Approximately 102,558 individuals |
Residents purchasing a Resident Small Game Hunting and Fishing Permit |
$153,837 annual aggregate |
III. WORKSHEET
102,558 (residents purchasing a Resident Small Game Hunting and Fishing Permit) X $1.50 (permit price increase) = $153,837
- ASSUMPTIONS
For the permit year 2023, we estimate 102,558 residents purchasing a Resident Small Game Hunting and Fishing Permit. This estimate is based on permit year 2021 sales minus 5%, as historically permit sales are in a slight downward trend.
The commission based its proposed permit-price increases on information from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) related to cost-of-living increases from 2008 to 2022. CPI is a commonly used measurement of the average changes over time in prices paid by consumers for consumer goods and services. The commission is recommending a gradual price increase over 10 years at a CPI of 75% for resident permits and 100% for non-resident and commercial permits.