E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government; appropriating money to the pollution control agency for clean water partnership and feedlot permit programs grants, for air and water quality monitoring activities, for community technical assistance and education, for individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) administration and grants, for continuing research on malformed frogs, for wastewater infrastructure fund (WIF) construction program administration, for certain petroleum tank release fund (petrofund) expenditures, for continued development of water quality cooperatives, for grants to the city of Garrison for sewage treatment and to Benton county to pay for certain municipal solid waste facility environmental response cost bonds and for mercury reduction strategies, to the office of environmental assistance for SCORE block grants to counties and for education on the proper disposal of automotive wastes, to the zoological board, to the department of natural resources for minerals research and diversification, for upper Mississippi comprehensive plan implementation, Lewis and Clark rural water system and Red River basin watershed district grants, for water monitoring activities, for construction of ring dikes, for the stream protection and redevelopment loan program, for unpaid back ditch assessment grants to Beltrami, Marshall and Roseau counties, for a Coon Lake control elevation raising feasibility study, for grants to the Cannon river watershed and to the city of Thief River Falls for certain dredging projects, for forest fire suppression costs, for white pine regeneration and protection, for the Minnesota conservation corps, for the focus on community forests program, for local community forest ecosystem health programs grants, for the forest resources council, for parks and recreation, trails and waterways and fish and wildlife management, for boat and water safety, for solid waste, snowmobile and off-highway vehicle enforcement activities, for regional resource enhancement and natural areas and greenways acquisition and development grants, for information technology projects and for statewide asset preservation and repair, to the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) for local government units natural resources block and soil and water conservation and watershed district grants, to the Minnesota Wisconsin boundary area commission, to the citizens council on Voyageurs national park, to the science museum, to the Minnesota academy of science, to the department of agriculture for livestock damage claims, for dairy diagnostic teams, for the dairy producers board, for certain joint agency laboratory, commercial shipping port and dairy farmers business climate studies, for university of Minnesota soybean disease research and farm safety and health programs, for seed law administration, for ethanol development, for construction of an electric generation facility using poultry litter as fuel, for Minnesota grown promotion grants, for agricultural education expansion grants, for agricultural products marketing, for sustainable agriculture demonstration projects, for manure management and odor control research, for organic certification cost share payments, for the WIC coupon program, for family farm security interest payment adjustments, for the farm advocates program, for the northern crops institute, for agriculture information center grants, for the Duluth seaway port authority, for livestock breeders association and beaver damage control grants, for the passing on the farm center, for federal milk marketing order system reform and for the dairy inspection account, to the board of animal health for a paratuberculosis control program, for the university of Minnesota companion animal resource education program and for avian pneumovirus disease investigation, to the Minnesota horticultural society, to the agricultural utilization research institute for hybrid tree management research, to the department of transportation (DOT) for a grant to the city of Savage or Scott county for engineering and environmental studies relating to the extension of highway 27 in the vicinity of the Savage fen wetlands complex, to the legislative commission on Minnesota resources (LCMR), the DNR, the metropolitan council, the departments of finance, agriculture, health and transportation, the Minnesota historical society, the PCA, the science museum, the board of water and soil resources, the university of Minnesota, the agricultural utilization research institute, the offices of environmental assistance and strategic and long range planning and the amateur sports commission for certain local initiative and Minnesota resources projects and to the department of trade and economic development (DTED) for a grant to the city of Windom to expand an agricultural processing facility; providing additional appropriations for state park and recreation area acquisition and for the metropolitan regional park system; temporarily prohibiting PCA approval of additional fees on animal feedlot operations; requiring PCA annual performance reports to specify the amount of lead, mercury and cadmium contained in sewage biosolids spread on land after wastewater treatment; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources to enter into a lease with the Minneapolis park and recreation board for the golf course and polo grounds at Fort Snelling; specifying an ethanol producer total payments limit; specifying certain data availability, project, match, recycled materials purchase, energy conservation, accessibility and year compatibility requirements and payment conditions for the Minnesota resources projects and extending the availability of appropriations for certain projects; providing for certain funds transfers; creating an agricultural fund with certain account divisions for deposit of receipts from agricultural related fees and activities, specifying certain commissioner of agriculture semiannual reporting requirements; authorizing the commissioners of the PCA or DNR to negotiate contract terms providing for prepayment of federal contracts; expanding the membership of the shared savings loan program loan review panel and the technical review panel for sustainable agriculture demonstration grants to include organic farmers and of the feedlot and manure management advisory committee to include commercial manure applicators; increasing the amount of the balance in the water pollution control revolving fund authorized to be appropriated to the commissioner of agriculture for the agricultural best management practices loan program; prohibiting agricultural production contracts from containing provisions prohibiting producers from disclosing terms, conditions and prices contained in the contract; providing for the imposition of criminal and administrative penalties for packer and stockyard violations; authorizing the commissioner to exempt certain pesticides from registration requirements; expanding eligibility for agricultural chemical response reimbursements to owners of all municipal airports affected by licensed aerial pesticide applicator incidents, specifying the nonliability of airport owners for expenses to cover necessary corrective actions caused by applicators; requiring the commissioner to enter into agreements before a certain date delegating licensing and inspection duties relating to retail grocery or convenience stores to local boards of health, exempting stores inspected under the state meat inspection program, specifying certain agreement and ordinance requirements; increasing certain food handler license fees and imposing certificate fees on food establishments exporting food from the state; updating state meat and poultry rules to federal regulations; imposing certain organic agriculture promotion duties on the commissioner and modifying the membership and extending the expiration date of the Minnesota organic advisory task force; providing for poultry inspection under the meat inspection law; specifying certain reporting requirements of packers purchasing or receiving livestock for slaughter; providing a temporary permit status for milk producers testing positive for residue in milk shipments, requiring permit suspension for noncompliance with certain residue prevention requirements within the temporary permit status period; changing the executive secretary of the animal health board to the executive director and authorizing the board to implement for federal voluntary Johne's disease herd status program for cattle; requiring the deposit of repayments of assistance under the ethanol production facility loan program into the general fund; authorizing DNR electronic and telephone transactions outside the state and sale or licensing of intellectual property and software products or services developed by the department or custom developed by a vendor for the department; defining metal traction device for snowmobile regulation purposes; providing for the issuance of duplicate state trail stickers for lost or destroyed stickers, fee; including the maintenance of trails on lands and waters of Voyageurs national park under the snowmobile grant in aid program, liability immunity provision; modifying the snowmobile information and safety education and training program fee and placing certain older youth under adult snowmobile safety training requirements; modifying the prohibition on the use of snowmobiles with metal traction devices and specifying certain temporary sticker requirements; modifying certain drivers license possession requirements for and operation authority of youthful snowmobile operators; prescribing misdemeanor penalties for persons operating snowmobiles or all-terrain vehicles during periods of motor vehicle operation prohibition due to driving while under influence of alcohol or controlled substance; providing for the funding of Minnesota conservation corps projects; adding certain lands to Blue Mounds state park and to the iron range off-highway vehicle recreation area in St. Louis county, expanding the membership of the advisory committee, providing for the possible operation of mining activities in the area and specifying certain management plan development requirements; extending the Douglas trail system and establishing the Gitchi-Gami trail in Lake and Cook counties; modifying the limit on grants for local park and recreation areas and requiring the commissioner of natural resources to administer programs to provide grants to local government units for regional trails and local trail connections; modifying certain cross country ski pass requirements and increasing the fees; increasing certain watercraft license fees; authorizing grants to local fire departments for procurement of fire suppression equipment; modifying the membership, meeting and reporting requirements of the Minnesota forest resources council; modifying certain timber harvesting and forest management guidelines and requiring peer review and the monitoring of riparian forests; expanding the duties of regional forest resource committees and specifying certain council reporting requirements relating to committee activities and certain sustainable forest management continuing education requirements of timber harvesters and forest resource professionals; specifying certain commissioner evaluation requirements for legislative authorization of the sale of state lands bordering public waters; modifying certain provisions providing for the use of proceeds from the lease of permanent school fund lands; modifying certain firearms safety certificate or drivers license designation requirements for hunting license issuance purposes; prohibiting the appointment of local government unit staff members of watershed management organizations to watershed management organization boards; authorizing the enrollment of certain land in more than one state or federal conservation reserve program under certain conditions; eliminating a certain once through cooling system fee deposit requirement; providing for a stream protection and improvement loan program; expanding certain individual sewage treatment system inspection requirements; expanding the purpose of the waste management act; requiring the commissioner of finance to annually transfer certain amounts of money from the motor vehicle transfer account to the environmental response, compensation and compliance account (superfund) and the general fund; modifying and expanding the definition of qualified facility under the landfill cleanup program and expanding certain program requirements relating to qualified facilities; extending the deadline for applications for exclusion from the program for certain qualified facilities; expanding authorized uses of the solid waste fund; establishing the closed landfill investment fund and providing for use; requiring legislative approval of new fees on animal feedlots; specifying certain requirements for PCA issuance of administrative penalty orders to feedlot operators for first time violations; authorizing conservation officers to issue citations to persons failing to report or recover oil or hazardous substance discharges or failing to take discharge preventive or preparedness measures and specifying penalty amounts; requiring the commissioner of the PCA to implement certain mercury reduction strategies; modifying certain provisions providing for the licensing and regulation of the practice of veterinary medicine by the board of veterinary medicine; including the revocation of snowmobile, ATV or motorboat operating privileges in the definition of prior license revocation for DWI purposes; modifying the disposition of proceeds from vehicle forfeiture sales; specifying certain content requirements of snowmobile and firearms safety certificate records transmitted from the DNR to the commissioner of public safety for drivers license designation purposes, authorizing the deletion of unmatched records after a certain number of years; authorizing the bulk delivery of nonoxygenated gasoline for certain riparian landowners and aircraft operators under certain conditions, requiring certain retail gasoline stations to register to sell nonoxygenated gasoline during certain months; expanding certain nongame wildlife management account crediting requirements relating to the income tax checkoff; eliminating the reduction in the percentage of gasoline determined to be used as fuel for the operation of snowmobiles for gasoline tax apportionment purposes; modifying certain reporting requirements of the commissioner of revenue relating to solid waste management tax receipts; requiring nongovernment sites for collection of used motor oil and filters; requiring the office of environmental assistance and the PCA to educate the public and businesses on the proper management of automobile wastes, providing for funding of the education program and for a PCA analysis of used oil filter disposal methods, expanding the liability exemption for the acceptance of used motor oil to retailers and manufacturers contracting for the services; defining demonstration corporation under the corporate farming law as a nonprofit corporation law formed to demonstrate historical farming practices; expanding forestry development projects to natural resource development projects under contractors bond provisions; delaying the repeal of the sustainable forest resources act; modifying a certain provision governing used motor oil and filter recycling goals and actions; delaying the effective date of updated feedlot rules; modifying the allocation of a certain prior appropriation to Anoka county to construct a pedestrian tunnel and bridge; modifying the match requirements for a certain grant by the commissioner of natural resources for the Beaver Island trail in Stearns county; modifying a certain provision providing for the private sale of certain surplus state land in St. Louis county; authorizing and providing for the private sale of certain surplus state land in Rock county; requiring the commissioner of the PCA to convene a committee to address the need for central collection wastewater treatment systems in unsewered areas and to report the results to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to conduct an aerial applicator liability study and report to the legislature by a certain date; rescinding a certain previous order of the commissioner of natural resources designating certain lands as wildlife management areas; prohibiting the construction of athletic fields within the lower Phalen watershed area in St. Paul approved for inclusion in the metro greenways program; requiring the board of water and soil resources to add farmstead windbreaks as a practice eligible for cost sharing to the rules governing erosion control cost sharing contracts; requiring the commissioner of natural resources to amend proposed permanent rules relating to public use of recreational areas; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to study current and projected impacts of increasing amounts of livestock, poultry and specialty crops produced under contract with processors and the effect on access to competitive markets for producers choosing not to produce under contract and report to the legislature by a certain date; specifying certain renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain provisions regulating the sale, lease or loan of cattle not vaccinated against brucellosis and providing for weather modification, once through cooling system conversion loans and water supply monitoring and health assessments in the metropolitan area and the personal watercraft surcharge (mk, ja)