E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state governmentARTICLE 1 GENERAL Appropriating money to the pollution control agency for the clean water partnership program, for cost share to certain livestock producers to improve feedlot environmental standards and for administration of the county feedlot program, for individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) administration and grants, for implementation of the Lake Superior lakewide management plan (LaMP), for the small business environmental improvement loan program, for ambient air and water quality and private water supply monitoring, for malformed frog sample collection and census, for the leaking underground storage tank program, for brownfields assessment and redevelopment and for certain overtime back pay settlement costs, to the office of environmental assistance for county SCORE block grants and for the environmental assistance revolving account, to the zoological board and to the department of natural resources for iron ore and minerals research, for mineral diversification, for implementation of the upper Mississippi comprehensive and lower St. Croix wild and scenic river act plans, for ring dikes construction, for emergency fire fighting costs, for white pine protection and regeneration, for community forest programs, for increased forest management activities, for implementation of the sustainable forest resources act and a master logger certification program, for the FORIST timber management information system, for state and metropolitan regional parks operations and maintenance, for state forest campground operations, for the Big Bog state recreation area, for Interstate park fire and rescue operations, for snowmobile grants in aid, for the Lake Superior safe harbor program, for state trail operations, for local trail grants, for the Knife River harbor of refuge and marina, for the Red River canoe and boating route inventory, for fish and wildlife management and enhancement, for milfoil program grants, for the reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) and nongame wildlife programs, for water monitoring activities, for the county biological survey and boat and water safety grants, for certain enforcement activities, for protected class employee recruitment and retention, for all-terrain vehicle and snowmobile safety programs, for metropolitan area greenways, for regional resource enhancement grants, for youth programs operations, for equal grants to the St. Paul Como zoo and conservatory and the Duluth zoo and for grants to Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties for emergency communications equipment and to the university of Minnesota raptor center for bald eagles lead poisoning incidence research, to the board of water and soil resources for local government units natural resources block grants, for grants to the Red River basin board for the water management plan and to soil and water conservation and watershed districts, for easement and grant programs administrative costs, for the implementation of the conservation reserve enhancement program, for public road projects wetlands replacement, for costs reimbursement to the town of West Newton in Nicollet county for certain wastewater treatment system construction costs, for updating and digitalization of outmoded county soil surveys and for technical assistance to farmers and ranchers to establish and enhance managed grazing systems, to the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary area commission for the St. Croix management and stewardship program, to the science museum of Minnesota, to the department of agriculture for grants to continue the dairy diagnostics and modernization program, for the voluntary cleanup program, for Minnesota grown promotion grants, for quarantine greenhouse facility maintenance, for animal feedlot improvements through agricultural best management practices loans, for improved production of forage and turf seed, for state college and university lamb and wool educational programs, for an education specialist in the Minnesota agriculture in the classroom program, for a certain ethanol facility loan, for beaver damage control grants, for family farm security interest payment adjustments, for the northern crops institute, for agriculture information center grants, for the Duluth seaway port authority, for a grant to the livestock breeders association, for an electronic information management system, for the farm advocates program, for grants to organizations participating in the farm and rural help networks, for continuation of the Minnesota grown food project, for a soybean oilseed processing and refining facility construction grant, for a department of administration grain inspection fees study, for county agricultural society exhibitor awards and for an investigation and analysis of environmental issues relating to feedlot environmental impact statements (EIS), to the board of animal health for the paratuberculosis (Johnes disease) control and avian pneumovirus disease investigation programs, for reimbursement to livestock farmers for certain anthrax losses and for emergency funding for livestock disease outbreaks, to the Minnesota horticultural society and to the agricultural utilization research institute for hybrid tree management research and development, appropriating money to the DNR, BOWSR, the university of Minnesota, the Minnesota historical society, the commissioners of administration and agriculture, the science museum and the Minnesota zoo for certain natural resources projects; specifying certain data availability, project, match, recycled materials purchase, energy conservation and accessibility requirements and certain payment conditions; prohibiting the commissioner of natural resources from abandoning the diversion system at Currant Lake in Murray county; specifying certain conservation officer overtime hours maintenance and management requirements; limiting the total payments from the ethanol development account to producers; abolishing the Eurasian wild pigs account and cancelling the account balance to the general fund; extending the availability of certain prior appropriations or grants; extending the expiration date for the youth corps, iron range off highway vehicle, game and fish fund citizen and environmental and natural resources trust fund advisory committees and the mineral coordinating committee; including interest accrued in the statistical services account in the standing appropriation to the commissioner of agriculture for department agricultural statistics division programs; modifying certain provisions under the Minnesota certification and agriculture best management practices loan programs; establishing the agriculture laboratory to provide analytical and technical services in support of department programs protecting and enhancing the agriculture, environment and food chain; transferring the waste pesticide account to the agricultural fund and including interest accrued in the account in the standing appropriation to the commissioner of agriculture for implementation of the waste pesticide collection program; increasing the specialty fertilizer registration and fertilizer inspection fees; modifying certain provisions under the agricultural chemical response and reimbursement law; requiring the commissioner to establish schedules to recover the cost of seed testing and identification, requiring the deposit of money collected in the laboratory services account in the agricultural fund; increasing the wholesale produce dealers license fee; modifying certain food handlers licensing requirements and establishing food handler plan review fees for deposit in a food handler reinspection account to be created in the agricultural fund; increasing the egg handlers annual inspection fee schedule; transferring the commercial canneries inspection account to the agricultural fund and providing a standing appropriation from the account to the commissioner for special inspection, laboratory and other services expenses; imposing milk procurement and dairy plant approval fees, requiring deposit in the dairy services account in the agricultural fund; modifying the laboratory certification fee; expanding inspection requirements to milk transports and tankers; eliminating the beverage inspection fund and creating a beverage inspection account in the agricultural fund and providing a standing appropriation from the account to the commissioner for inspection and supervision costs; extending and modifying the ethanol producer payments program and authorizing the commissioner to approve a certain number of new ethanol plants before a certain date; authorizing and providing for the rural finance authority (RFA) to establish and implement an agricultural processing facility loan program; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources to contract with federally recognized American tribal governments and the Minnesota historical society for professional and maintenance services; providing for the disposition and use of natural disaster reimbursements to the commissioner; authorizing use of money in the snowmobile trails and enforcement account in the natural resources fund for grants to local law enforcement agencies; setting the ATV environmental and safety education and training program fee, requiring the commissioner to by a certain date incorporate a riding component in the program and creating an exception to the prohibition on youthful operation of certain ATVs relating to successful completion of the program with a riding component; establishing the Minnesota River trail in Big Stone, Swift. Yellow Medicine, Chippewa, Renville, Nicollet, Sibley and LeSueur counties and the central lakes trail in Otter Tail, Grant and Douglas counties; authorizing the commissioner to mark canoe and boating routes on the Long Prairie and Red rivers; clarifying the authority of the commissioner to use certain fees and proceeds; requiring unit forest resource plans to provide direction for the management and protection of forest riparian areas on lands administered by the DNR and to consider the role of administered lands in managing the areas, requiring permits to cut timber from the lands to specify requirements for the protection of riparian areas; recodifying a certain provision requiring the commissioner to establish a program for monitoring broad trends and conditions in forest resources and silvicultural practices and application of the timber harvesting and forest management guidelines at statewide, landscape and site levels; requiring notice of the availability of proposed changes to the timber harvesting and forest management guidelines to be placed in the environmental quality board (EQB) monitor; modifying certain duties and reporting requirements of regional forest resource committees and certain requirements of the research advisory committee; expanding the authority of the commissioner to adopt rules governing game and fish stamp design contests; imposing a fee for the mailing of pictorial turkey or trout and salmon stamps; clarifying certain stamp signature, validation and possession provisions; prohibiting the removal of sunken logs from inland waters of the state for commercial purposes; specifying the duration of pollution control agency permits for major aboveground storage tanks; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of the PCA to establish procedures to approve new individual sewage treatment system technologies and continuing the validity of existing warranties; establishing an environmental assistance revolving account in the environmental fund for deposit of environmental assistance grant and loan program repayments to be used by the director of the office of environmental assistance for the grants and loans; extending the time limit for placement and operation of proposed resource recovery facilities under solid waste transfer station project grant agreements before recipient requirement to repay the grant amount to the state; modifying certain waste tire management provisions; extending the drycleaner reimbursement account interim fees provision; modifying certain provisions under the petroleum tank release cleanup program; specifying the term of hazardous waste generator licenses and expanding the transportation rule exemption for certain smaller generators; designating the DNR as the state agency to apply for, accept, receive and disburse federal land and water conservation fund act funds, providing for the local share, creating a state land and water conservation account in the Minnesota future resources fund to be used for state land acquisition and development for the state outdoor recreation system and imposing certain land acquisition restrictions; increasing grain buyers and warehouse operators license fees; providing unemployment insurance eligibility to temporary emergency forest firefighters; increasing the total percentage of revenues from the in lieu sales tax on lottery tickets dedicated to certain natural resources funds; authorizing metropolitan landfill contingency action fund expenditures for response costs certain at unpermitted mixed municipal solid waste disposal facilities; granting certain conservation law enforcement authority to federally recognized Indian tribes; delaying the repeal of certain sustainable forest resources provisions and the date for a certain university of Minnesota report to the legislature on an inventory of state owned land in the boundary waters canoe area (BWCA); requiring the commissioner of natural resources to acquire land for a safe harbor and public access to Lake Superior at McQuade road; repealing the ethanol production goal, the federal land and water and lead funds and the natural resources federal reimbursement account, certain provisions regulating the recovery of sunken logs, new individual sewage treatment systems technologies, waste tire dumps and petroleum tank reimbursements, the motor vehicle salvage facilities cost share program and certain chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) packaging prohibitions and certain rules relating to retail food store plan review fees, indirect source permits and individual sewage treatment system new technologies and warranties; providing an effective date for certain prior wastewater infrastructure funding program funding level modifications ARTICLE 2 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; making the drycleaner environmental response and reimbursement account an account in the remediation 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 the commissioner of revenue, requiring county use of the credit for resource recovery services; repealing the solid waste fund, the hazardous waste generator fee and the metropolitan landfill contingency action fund; transferring certain amounts of money in the environmental response, compensation and compliance account and the solid waste fund to the environmental fund and the remaining balances in the account and fund and remaining balances in the solid waste fund, the drycleaner environmental response and reimbursement account and the metropolitan landfill contingency action fund to the remediation fund; specifying certain name change and deletion instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain PCA permit rules (ja)