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SF 1387 Senate Long Description

E Relating to natural resources; changing the name of the youth corps program to the Minnesota conservation corps program and eliminating the corps to career community service program; modifying certain provisions relating to decorative forest products; defining or redefining certain terms; expanding the restriction on the removal or transport of decorative materials and eliminating the authorized alternatives to possession of the written consent; modifying certain inspection, investigation and transportation recordkeeping requirements; providing for certain exceptions to the restrictions and requirements; requiring a bough buyers permit from the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to buy more than a certain amount of boughs per year, fee, authorizing reduction of the fee for attendance at an approved annual workshop or other orientation session for balsam bough harvesters and buyers; specifying buying and recordkeeping requirements; authorizing commissioner permits denial, modification, suspension or revocation for cause; requiring crediting of permit fees to the special revenue fund for costs associated with balsam bough educational programs for harvesters and buyers; extending the repeal of the sustainable forest resources program; requiring the commissioners of administration, transportation (DOT), natural resources and revenue to work with the affected counties to study and determine the percentage of revenue received from the unrefunded gasoline and special fuel tax derived from gasoline and special fuel used for the operation of motor vehicles on state forest roads and county forest access roads and report by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of natural resources to study the watershed impacts of the federal energy regulatory commission license for the Whiteface reservoir dam in the St. Louis River system, specifying certain study requirements and requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date, requiring the commissioner to formally request the utility operating the dam to seek an amendment to the license to implement the changes necessary to reduce flood hazards under certain conditions (ra, ja)