E Relating to transportation; defining rural agricultural business for highway specific service informational signs purposes; correcting the descriptions of trunk highways 42, 105 and 117 and adding a description for route 337, description changes to be effective upon the signing and filing of certain transfer of jurisdiction agreements; authorizing the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to convey fee title or easements held or owned by the state in land used to construct roads to connect closed off highways, streets or roads with another public highway or to reconnect private roads to the property owners served by the roads; authorizing the commissioner as a condition of awarding transportation construction contracts in the taconite tax relief area to require the contractor to hire a certain percentage of workers with principal place of residence in the area; requiring owner consent for commissioner reconveyance of real property taken through eminent domain to the property owner; requiring commissioner or local authority posting of established work zone speed limits and authorizing the establishment of a higher highway work zone speed limit on divided highways; authorizing the commissioner to set the dates for winter highway seasonal gross weight increases based on a freezing index model; modifying certain responsibilities of the commissioner relating to appearances on public transportation matters; recodifying the provision requiring the commissioner to cooperate with federal agencies to harmonize state and federal transportation regulations, authorizing the commissioner to conduct joint hearings with federal agencies, to approve and establish freight rates and charges departing from the distance principle and to nominate members to joint boards as provided by federal acts; abolishing the transportation regulation board, transferring certain responsibilities relating to motor or common rail carriers from the TRB to the commissioner and modifying or eliminating certain former duties of the commissioner relating to common carriers; discontinuing certain trunk highways upon transfer of jurisdiction agreements between the commissioner and Crow Wing, Ramsey and Washington counties and the city of Brainerd; specifying certain phrase or term change and renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain provisions relating to cabooses, the removal or abandonment of railroad tracks, the regulation of railroad stations and terminals and the resolution of certain railroad disputes by the commissioner (mk, ja)