1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to appropriations; appropriating money to the 
  1.3             Minnesota pollution control agency for equipment 
  1.4             purchase and distribution, planning, and response 
  1.5             training relating to emergency spill response on the 
  1.6             Mississippi river.  
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.9      (a) $225,000 is appropriated from the general fund, to be 
  1.10  available for the biennium, to the Minnesota pollution control 
  1.11  agency for the following purposes: 
  1.12     (1) to purchase and distribute emergency spill response 
  1.13  equipment, such as spill containment booms, sorbent pads, and 
  1.14  installation tools, along the Mississippi river upstream of 
  1.15  drinking water intakes at the locations designated by the agency 
  1.16  in consultation with the Mississippi River Defense Network; 
  1.17     (2) to purchase mobile trailers to contain the equipment in 
  1.18  clause (1) so that rapid deployment can occur; and 
  1.19     (3) to conduct spill response training for those groups of 
  1.20  responders receiving the spill response equipment described in 
  1.21  clause (1). 
  1.22     (b) The agency shall develop and administer protocol for 
  1.23  the use of the equipment in paragraph (a) among all potential 
  1.24  users, including private contract firms, public response 
  1.25  agencies, and units of government.