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SF 3332 Senate Long Description

Providing for the management of aggregate resources; providing for the findings of the aggregate resources task force; requiring the planning authorities to consider the protection of identified and important aggregate resources in comprehensive plans, specifying certain minimum consideration requirements; establishing a transportation policy for promotion and protection purposes; authorizing and providing for landowner registration of commercially viable aggregate deposits with the county recorder or registrar of titles under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to develop best management practices and minimum reclamation standards for aggregate mining, specifying certain comments and recommendations solicitation requirements, providing for voluntary compliance; requiring the commissioner to prepare a technical assistance guide for distribution to local permitting authorities; requiring and providing for certain existing and proposed aggregate mining operations to file mine plans with the local permitting authority, requiring the commissioner to provide the form and to conduct technical reviews of the plans, requiring reports of findings to local permitting authorities; encouraging counties, townships and municipalities to consider adopting certain aggregate mining permit structures; providing for the conservation of native prairie under certain conditions; expanding the definition of county for aggregate material production tax purposes and providing for county board discretion in the amount of tax imposed; modifying the distribution of tax proceeds; requiring the director of the office of environmental assistance in consultation with the commissioners of natural resources, the pollution control agency (PCA) and transportation (DOT) and the private sector to report to the legislature by a certain date with specific recommendations for legislation providing incentives to recycle construction waste for aggregate, preventing construction waste materials used as aggregate from entering demolition landfills and promoting or requiring the use of industrial waste products and byproducts; requiring the commissioner of natural resources to work with interested parties to educate the public. local government and others responsible for issuing permits for aggregate mining to minimize the detrimental consequences of ignoring planning and conservation of aggregate resources; appropriating money to the commissioner of natural resources to complete the mapping program for the identification and classification of potential publicly or privately owned aggregate land, specifying certain priority requirements (ra)