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SF 295 Senate Long Description

E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money from the Minnesota future resources and environment and natural resources trust funds and from oil overcharge money in the special revenue fund for environment and natural resources purposes; appropriating money to the legislative commission on Minnesota resources (LCMR) for administrative expenses, to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for contract administration activities, for private forest and prairie lands stewardship plans development, for state fish hatchery rehabilitation acceleration, for Canada goose hunting and management enhancement, for Eurasian water milfoil and purple loosestrife biological control continuation, for fish and wildlife habitat corridors restoration, for public lands waterfowl projects engineering support, for metro greenways, for scientific and natural areas and Eagle Creek buffer strip acquisition, for Mississippi and Minnesota river valleys habitat projects implementation, for the neighborhood wilds program, for metropolitan regional parks acquisition, rehabilitation and development, for local outdoor recreation and regional and local trail grants, for outdoor recreation facilities accessibility development, for public water access, fishing pier and shorefishing sites acquisition and development, for Washington county Grey Cloud island preservation, for a gateway trail bridge over state highway 96, for state trail projects, for Mesabi trail facility design, for the Itasca county regional trailhead and conservation buildings, for recreational shooting ranges development and rehabilitation, for state park and recreation area acquisition, for projects allowed under the federal land and water conservation fund act (LAWCON), for metropolitan area alternative storm water conveyance systems, for Mississippi headwaters river watch watershed monitoring program acceleration, for quarries and gravel pits hydraulic impacts evaluation, for Koochiching county GIS management, for county biological survey continuation, for dairy farms environmental practices regulation, for a certain inner city collaborative community environmental education and youth outreach program, for project green start at the children's museum, for a raptor propagation program at Stillwater high school, for a Hennepin regional parks coordinated farm education program and for the residential environmental education program for youth, to the university of Minnesota for landscape arboretum land acquisition, for development of green infrastructure design strategies in Washington, Ramsey and Dakota counties, for contaminated aquifers denitrification strategies assessment, for watersheds fecal pollution sources determination, for timber harvesting and forest management guidelines evaluation, for biodegradable starch based plastic production and marketing and for the uncommon ground educational television series, to the Minnesota historical society for design and upgrade of trails at the forest history center in Grand Rapids, to the board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) for local water plans implementation acceleration and for outmoded soil surveys updating continuation, to the commissioner of agriculture for agricultural land preservation and for school integrated pest management practices implementation, to the commissioner of administration for an agreement with the university of Minnesota to evaluate the use of biodiesel fuel in diesel powered generators, to the science museum of Minnesota for outdoor nonpoint source pollution education exhibits and for upland habitats restoration programs and to the Minnesota zoo for interpretive environmental educational displays development; specifying certain data availability, project, match, recycled materials purchase, energy conservation and accessibility requirements, certain payment conditions and certain land acquisition restrictions; 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; extending the availability of certain prior environmental and natural resources projects appropriations; repealing the provision designating the governor as the state agency to accept and disburse federal land and water fund act funds and the natural resources federal reimbursement account (je, ja)