Session Year 2003, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0009

E Relating to state lands; designating state owned lands within the + boundary
waters canoe area as state wilderness areas; withdrawing from sale +and
transferring from the custody, control and supervision of the county +board of
the county of location to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR)
tax-forfeited land located within the described boundaries of state +recreation
areas, requiring commissioner execution of a certificate of +acceptance of the
lands for recording with the county auditor; modifying the +description of the
Mississippi whitewater trail; adding the Lake Superior water and +Mississippi
whitewater trails to the outdoor recreation system; establishing the +mineral
coordinating committee to plan for diversified mineral development, +specifying
membership requirements and a sunset; establishing the Greenleaf Lake+ state
park in Meeker county, requiring specific appropriations for +additional land
purchases; adding certain lands to Fort Snelling state park in Dakota+ and
Hennepin counties, to Lake Bemidji state park and the Big Bog +recreation area
in Beltrami county, to the Iron Range off-highway vehicle recreation +area in
St. Louis county, to Paul Bunyan state forest and to Savanna and +Waukenabo
state forests in Aitkin county; adding certain lands to and deleting +certain
lands from Tettegouche state park in Lake county; deleting certain +lands from
foot Hills state forest in Cass county, from Kabetogama state forest +in St.
Louis county and from Mississippi headwaters and Red Lake state +forests and the
Red Lake wildlife management area in Beltrami county; modifying the +use of a
certain prior appropriation to the commissioner for an agreement +relating to
controlled hunts of nuisance geese; authorizing and providing for the+ sale of
certain tax-forfeited land bordering public water in Aitkin, Crow +Wing and
Norman counties and certain surplus state land in Beltrami county and+ for the
conveyance of certain surplus state land without consideration to +Cass county;
providing for the private sale of certain tax-forfeited lands in Crow+ Wing,
Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis counties and of certain +consolidated
conservation land in Beltrami county; requiring and providing for +reconveyance
of reverted state land bordering public water in Cook county by the commissioner
of transportation (DOT) to the county without +consideration; requiring the
commissioner of natural resources with the approval of +the land exchange board
to exchange certain state land bordering public waters+ in Lake of the Woods
county and requiring the exchange of certain trust fund +land in St. Louis
county; authorizing or requiring and providing for the +conveyance of certain
surplus state land bordering public waters in Lake of the +Woods, St. Louis and
Scott counties; authorizing Wadena county to sell certain +county land to the
commissioner; authorizing the commissioner to allocate money +for certain flood
hazard mitigation grants for partial construction of certain +projects
regardless of the need for an additional appropriation for completion+
purposes(ra, ja)