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SF 1743 Senate Long Description

E Relating to the environment; providing for and modifying the deposit of certain revenues in the environmental fund and authorizing the pollution control agency to spend money from the fund for air, water and solid and hazardous waste programs and the office of environmental assistance to spend money from the fund for programs of the office; exempting certain fees deposited in the fund from departmental earnings requirements; eliminating the environmental response, compensation and compliance account (superfund) in the environmental fund and establishing the remediation fund to provide a reliable source of public money for response and corrective actions to address releases of hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants, agricultural chemicals and petroleum and for environmental response actions at qualified landfill facilities; appropriating the money in the fund to the PCA and the commissioners of agriculture and natural resources (DNR) for certain specified purposes; requiring the commissioner of finance to allocate available amounts based on work plans submitted by the agency and the commissioners, requiring copies of the work plans to the legislature; providing for the deposit of certain revenues in the remediation fund; eliminating certain accounts in the environmental fund; changing the solid waste management tax to the environmental tax; providing a temporary mixed municipal solid waste processing tax credit for counties, specifying certain county claim filing requirements and certain duties of commissioner of revenue, requiring county use of the credit for resource recovery services; repealing the solid waste fund, the drycleaner environmental response and reimbursement account, the hazardous waste generator fee and the metropolitan landfill contingency action fund; transferring remaining balances in the environmental response, compensation and compliance account, the solid waste fund, the drycleaner environmental response and reimbursement account and the metropolitan landfill contingency action fund to the remediation fund and a certain amount of money in the solid waste fund to the environmental fund; specifying certain name change and deletion instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain PCA permit rules (mk, ja)