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A LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM WILLIAM T, LODGE, DIRECTOR, 
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DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION, STATS OF ILLINOIS 

Dear Sir: 
Mr, Raymond Mostek, President of the Illinois Audubon Society, has requested 
that we send to you a short explanation of the Illinois Building Authority and of 
the State Parks Revenue Bond Act. These are two separate Acts not in any way con- 
nected, the fact which I want to point out before entering into the explanation, 
The Illinois Building Authority was created by an Act approved August 15,1964, 
as an Agency to provide, through revenue boris, monies necessary for other agencies 
of the State to make certain capit2l improvements in their field of activity, 
Before bonds could be issued for these capital improvements, the specific improve- 
ment must be declared to be in the public interest by Legislative action, The 73rd 
General Assembly enacted Senate Bill 1177, declaring certain projects of various 
Departments of the State of Illinois to be in the public interest and thereby 
authorizing the Building Authority to issue revenue bonds to provide the money for 
those projects. The Department of Conservation was included in this Bill and 23 
projects including land acquisition and construction were declared to be in the 
public interest, The money for these projects totalled $2,308,560. We have not as 
yet received any of this money, as the Building Authority has not issued the bonds 
for the projects which were incluwied for our Department, We do expect to receive 
most of it before the end of the year, as it is intended to be included in the 
second bond issue which the Building Authority approves, 
The State Parks Revenue Bond Act passed by the 73rd General Assembly on 
August 8, 1963, provides for the establishment of a State Parks Revenue Bond 
Commission and authorizes it to issue up to $9,000,000 in revenue bonds for the 
construction of revenue-producing facilities in existing state parks. It also pro- 
vides that these bonds are to be retired from revenues received from the operation 
of state parks, including the facilities constructed with money from the bond 
issue, and also the existing revenue-producing facilities in state parks, if the 
entire revenue is necessary, It will be impossible for the State Parks Revenue 
Bond Commission to secure purchasers of its bonds until the Supreme Court has de- 
clared the Act to be constitutional. The test case om the constitutionality of the 
Act is expected to be heard in the Supreme Court in its September term, When a 
favorable opinion is handed down by the Court, the Commission will proceed with the 
business of issuing these bonds and constructing the facilities for which the money 
is secured. 
I sincerely hope that this explains these two Acts satisfactorily. If there is any 
further informtio that you should require about them, I shall be glad to provide 
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