Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2351

E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state
governmentARTICLE 1 GENERAL Appropriating money to the pollution control agency
for the clean water partnership program, for cost share to certain livestock
producers to improve feedlot environmental standards and for administration of
the county feedlot program, for individual sewage treatment system (ISTS)
administration and grants, for implementation of the Lake Superior lakewide
management plan (LaMP), for the small business environmental improvement loan
program, for ambient air and water quality and private water supply monitoring,
for malformed frog sample collection and census, for the leaking underground
storage tank program, for brownfields assessment and redevelopment and for
certain overtime back pay settlement costs, to the office of environmental
assistance for county SCORE block grants and for the environmental assistance
revolving account, to the zoological board and to the department of natural
resources for iron ore and minerals research, for mineral diversification, for
implementation of the upper Mississippi comprehensive and lower St. Croix wild
and scenic river act plans, for ring dikes construction, for emergency fire
fighting costs, for white pine protection and regeneration, for community forest
programs, for increased forest management activities, for implementation of the
sustainable forest resources act and a master logger certification program, for
the FORIST timber management information system, for state and metropolitan
regional parks operations and maintenance, for state forest campground
operations, for the Big Bog state recreation area, for Interstate park fire and
rescue operations, for snowmobile grants in aid, for the Lake Superior safe
harbor program, for state trail operations, for local trail grants, for the
Knife River harbor of refuge and marina, for the Red River canoe and boating
route inventory, for fish and wildlife management and enhancement, for milfoil
program grants, for the reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) and nongame wildlife
programs, for water monitoring activities, for the county biological survey and
boat and water safety grants, for certain enforcement activities, for protected
class employee recruitment and retention, for all-terrain vehicle and snowmobile
safety programs, for metropolitan area greenways, for regional resource
enhancement grants, for youth programs operations, for equal grants to the St.
Paul Como zoo and conservatory and the Duluth zoo and for grants to Cook, Lake
and St. Louis counties for emergency communications equipment and to the
university of Minnesota raptor center for bald eagles lead poisoning incidence
research, to the board of water and soil resources for local government units
natural resources block grants, for grants to the Red River basin board for the
water management plan and to soil and water conservation and watershed
districts, for easement and grant programs administrative costs, for the
implementation of the conservation reserve enhancement program, for public road
projects wetlands replacement, for costs reimbursement to the town of West
Newton in Nicollet county for certain wastewater treatment system construction
costs, for updating and digitalization of outmoded county soil surveys and for
technical assistance to farmers and ranchers to establish and enhance managed
grazing systems, to the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary area commission for the St.
Croix management and stewardship program, to the science museum of Minnesota, to
the department of agriculture for grants to continue the dairy diagnostics and
modernization program, for the voluntary cleanup program, for Minnesota grown
promotion grants, for quarantine greenhouse facility maintenance, for animal
feedlot improvements through agricultural best management practices loans, for
improved production of forage and turf seed, for state college and university
lamb and wool educational programs, for an education specialist in the Minnesota
agriculture in the classroom program, for a certain ethanol facility loan, for
beaver damage control grants, for family farm security interest payment
adjustments, for the northern crops institute, for agriculture information
center grants, for the Duluth seaway port authority, for a grant to the
livestock breeders association, for an electronic information management system,
for the farm advocates program, for grants to organizations participating in the
farm and rural help networks, for continuation of the Minnesota grown food
project, for a soybean oilseed processing and refining facility construction
grant, for a department of administration grain inspection fees study, for
county agricultural society exhibitor awards and for an investigation and
analysis of environmental issues relating to feedlot environmental impact
statements (EIS), to the board of animal health for the paratuberculosis (Johnes
disease) control and avian pneumovirus disease investigation programs, for
reimbursement to livestock farmers for certain anthrax losses and for emergency
funding for livestock disease outbreaks, to the Minnesota horticultural society
and to the agricultural utilization research institute for hybrid tree
management research and development, appropriating money to the DNR, BOWSR, the
university of Minnesota, the Minnesota historical society, the commissioners of
administration and agriculture, the science museum and the Minnesota zoo for
certain natural resources projects; specifying certain data availability,
project, match, recycled materials purchase, energy conservation and
accessibility requirements and certain payment conditions; prohibiting the
commissioner of natural resources from abandoning the diversion system at
Currant Lake in Murray county; specifying certain conservation officer overtime
hours maintenance and management requirements; limiting the total payments from
the ethanol development account to producers; abolishing the Eurasian wild pigs
account and cancelling the account balance to the general fund; extending the
availability of certain prior appropriations or grants; extending the expiration
date for the youth corps, iron range off highway vehicle, game and fish fund
citizen and environmental and natural resources trust fund advisory committees
and the mineral coordinating committee; including interest accrued in the
statistical services account in the standing appropriation to the commissioner
of agriculture for department agricultural statistics division programs;
modifying certain provisions under the Minnesota certification and agriculture
best management practices loan programs; establishing the agriculture laboratory
to provide analytical and technical services in support of department programs
protecting and enhancing the agriculture, environment and food chain;
transferring the waste pesticide account to the agricultural fund and including
interest accrued in the account in the standing appropriation to the
commissioner of agriculture for implementation of the waste pesticide collection
program; increasing the specialty fertilizer registration and fertilizer
inspection fees; modifying certain provisions under the agricultural chemical
response and reimbursement law; requiring the commissioner to establish
schedules to recover the cost of seed testing and identification, requiring the
deposit of money collected in the laboratory services account in the
agricultural fund; increasing the wholesale produce dealers license fee;
modifying certain food handlers licensing requirements and establishing food
handler plan review fees for deposit in a food handler reinspection account to
be created in the agricultural fund; increasing the egg handlers annual
inspection fee schedule; transferring the commercial canneries inspection
account to the agricultural fund and providing a standing appropriation from the
account to the commissioner for special inspection, laboratory and other
services expenses; imposing milk procurement and dairy plant approval fees,
requiring deposit in the dairy services account in the agricultural fund;
modifying the laboratory certification fee; expanding inspection requirements to
milk transports and tankers; eliminating the beverage inspection fund and
creating a beverage inspection account in the agricultural fund and providing a
standing appropriation from the account to the commissioner for inspection and
supervision costs; extending and modifying the ethanol producer payments program
and authorizing the commissioner to approve a certain number of new ethanol
plants before a certain date; authorizing and providing for the rural finance
authority (RFA) to establish and implement an agricultural processing facility
loan program; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources to contract with
federally recognized American tribal governments and the Minnesota historical
society for professional and maintenance services; providing for the disposition
and use of natural disaster reimbursements to the commissioner; authorizing use
of money in the snowmobile trails and enforcement account in the natural
resources fund for grants to local law enforcement agencies; setting the ATV
environmental and safety education and training program fee, requiring the
commissioner to by a certain date incorporate a riding component in the program
and creating an exception to the prohibition on youthful operation of certain
ATVs relating to successful completion of the program with a riding component;
establishing the Minnesota River trail in Big Stone, Swift. Yellow Medicine,
Chippewa, Renville, Nicollet, Sibley and LeSueur counties and the central lakes
trail in Otter Tail, Grant and Douglas counties; authorizing the commissioner to
mark canoe and boating routes on the Long Prairie and Red rivers; clarifying the
authority of the commissioner to use certain fees and proceeds; requiring unit
forest resource plans to provide direction for the management and protection of
forest riparian areas on lands administered by the DNR and to consider the role
of administered lands in managing the areas, requiring permits to cut timber
from the lands to specify requirements for the protection of riparian areas;
recodifying a certain provision requiring the commissioner to establish a
program for monitoring broad trends and conditions in forest resources and
silvicultural practices and application of the timber harvesting and forest
management guidelines at statewide, landscape and site levels; requiring notice
of the availability of proposed changes to the timber harvesting and forest
management guidelines to be placed in the environmental quality board (EQB)
monitor; modifying certain duties and reporting requirements of regional forest
resource committees and certain requirements of the research advisory committee;
expanding the authority of the commissioner to adopt rules governing game and
fish stamp design contests; imposing a fee for the mailing of pictorial turkey
or trout and salmon stamps; clarifying certain stamp signature, validation and
possession provisions; prohibiting the removal of sunken logs from inland waters
of the state for commercial purposes; specifying the duration of pollution
control agency permits for major aboveground storage tanks; eliminating the
requirement for the commissioner of the PCA to establish procedures to approve
new individual sewage treatment system technologies and continuing the validity
of existing warranties; establishing an environmental assistance revolving
account in the environmental fund for deposit of environmental assistance grant
and loan program repayments to be used by the director of the office of
environmental assistance for the grants and loans; extending the time limit for
placement and operation of proposed resource recovery facilities under solid
waste transfer station project grant agreements before recipient requirement to
repay the grant amount to the state; modifying certain waste tire management
provisions; extending the drycleaner reimbursement account interim fees
provision; modifying certain provisions under the petroleum tank release cleanup
program; specifying the term of hazardous waste generator licenses and expanding
the transportation rule exemption for certain smaller generators; designating
the DNR as the state agency to apply for, accept, receive and disburse federal
land and water conservation fund act funds, providing for the local share,
creating a state land and water conservation account in the Minnesota future
resources fund to be used for state land acquisition and development for the
state outdoor recreation system and imposing certain land acquisition
restrictions; increasing grain buyers and warehouse operators license fees;
providing unemployment insurance eligibility to temporary emergency forest
firefighters; increasing the total percentage of revenues from the in lieu sales
tax on lottery tickets dedicated to certain natural resources funds; authorizing
metropolitan landfill contingency action fund expenditures for response costs
certain at unpermitted mixed municipal solid waste disposal facilities; granting
certain conservation law enforcement authority to federally recognized Indian
tribes; delaying the repeal of certain sustainable forest resources provisions
and the date for a certain university of Minnesota report to the legislature on
an inventory of state owned land in the boundary waters canoe area (BWCA);
requiring the commissioner of natural resources to acquire land for a safe
harbor and public access to Lake Superior at McQuade road; repealing the ethanol
production goal, the federal land and water and lead funds and the natural
resources federal reimbursement account, certain provisions regulating the
recovery of sunken logs, new individual sewage treatment systems technologies,
waste tire dumps and petroleum tank reimbursements, the motor vehicle salvage
facilities cost share program and certain chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) packaging
prohibitions and certain rules relating to retail food store plan review fees,
indirect source permits and individual sewage treatment system new technologies
and warranties; providing an effective date for certain prior wastewater
infrastructure funding program funding level modifications ARTICLE 2 Relating to
the environment; providing for and modifying the deposit of certain revenues in
the environmental fund and authorizing the pollution control agency to spend
money from the fund for air, water and solid and hazardous waste programs and
the office of environmental assistance to spend money from the fund for programs
of the office; exempting certain fees deposited in the fund from departmental
earnings requirements; eliminating the environmental response, compensation and
compliance account (superfund) in the environmental fund and establishing the
remediation fund to provide a reliable source of public money for response and
corrective actions to address releases of hazardous substances, pollutants or
contaminants, agricultural chemicals and petroleum and for environmental
response actions at qualified landfill facilities; appropriating the money in
the fund to the PCA and the commissioners of agriculture and natural resources
(DNR) for certain specified purposes; requiring the commissioner of finance to
allocate available amounts based on work plans submitted by the agency and the
commissioners, requiring copies of the work plans to the legislature; providing
for the deposit of certain revenues in the remediation fund; eliminating certain
accounts in the environmental fund; making the drycleaner environmental response
and reimbursement account an account in the remediation fund; changing the solid
waste management tax to the environmental tax; providing a temporary mixed
municipal solid waste processing tax credit for counties, specifying certain
county claim filing requirements and certain duties of the commissioner of
revenue, requiring county use of the credit for resource recovery services;
repealing the solid waste fund, the hazardous waste generator fee and the
metropolitan landfill contingency action fund; transferring certain amounts of
money in the environmental response, compensation and compliance account and the
solid waste fund to the environmental fund and the remaining balances in the
account and fund and remaining balances in the solid waste fund, the drycleaner
environmental response and reimbursement account and the metropolitan landfill
contingency action fund to the remediation fund; specifying certain name change
and deletion instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain PCA
permit rules (ja)