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- ↑ "Speaker Robin Vos Announces Water Quality Task Force".
- ↑ "DATCP Home Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)".
- ↑ "Wisconsin Legislature: AB790: Bill Text".
- ↑ "2019 Assembly Bill 801".
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- ↑ "Wisconsin 2014 fall general election results".