1.1                            A bill an act 
  1.2             relating to the environment; providing that 
  1.3             contamination cleanup grants cover costs of developing 
  1.4             a response action plan and cleanup costs incurred 
  1.5             before the award of a grant in certain cases; 
  1.6             modifying the application cycle for contamination 
  1.7             cleanup grants; amending Minnesota Statutes 1994, 
  1.8             sections 116J.552, subdivision 2; and 116J.555, 
  1.9             subdivision 2. 
  1.10  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.11     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 116J.552, 
  1.12  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.13     Subd. 2.  [CLEANUP COSTS.] "Cleanup costs" or "costs" 
  1.14  mean means the cost costs of developing and implementing an 
  1.15  approved a response action plan, but does not include 
  1.16  implementation costs incurred before the award of a grant unless 
  1.17  the application for the grant was submitted within 180 days 
  1.18  after the response action plan was approved by the commissioner 
  1.19  of the pollution control agency. 
  1.20     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 116J.555, 
  1.21  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.22     Subd. 2.  [APPLICATION CYCLES; REPORTING TO LCWM.] (a) In 
  1.23  making grants, the commissioner shall establish regular 
  1.24  semiannual application deadlines in which grants will be 
  1.25  authorized from all or part of the available appropriations of 
  1.26  money in the account. 
  1.27     (b) After each semiannual cycle in which grants are 
  2.1   awarded, the commissioner shall report to the legislative 
  2.2   commission on waste management the grants awarded and 
  2.3   appropriate supporting information describing each grant made.  
  2.4   This report must be made 30 days after the grants are awarded. 
  2.5      (c) The commissioner shall annually report to the 
  2.6   legislative commission on the status of the cleanup projects 
  2.7   undertaken under grants made under the programs.  The 
  2.8   commissioner shall include in the annual report information on 
  2.9   the cleanup and development activities undertaken for the grants 
  2.10  made in that and previous fiscal years.  The commissioner shall 
  2.11  make this report no later than 120 days after the end of the 
  2.12  fiscal year. 
  2.13     Sec. 3.  [AMENDMENT OF GRANT APPLICATIONS.] 
  2.14     A development authority that, before the effective date of 
  2.15  this section, submitted an application for a grant under 
  2.16  Minnesota Statutes, sections 116J.551 to 116J.558, may, before 
  2.17  the next application deadline, submit to the commissioner of 
  2.18  trade and economic development an amended application based on 
  2.19  the changes made by section 1. 
  2.20     Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.21     Sections 1 to 3 are effective the day following final 
  2.22  enactment.