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SF 10 Senate Long Description

E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for environment, natural resources and agriculture purposes; appropriating money to the pollution control agency for the clean water partnership program, for feedlot permit program county administration grants, for local and basinwide water quality protection, for individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) grants and program administration, for implementation of the Lake Superior lakewide management plan (LaMP), for the small business environmental improvement loan program, for certain ambient air, water quality and private water supply monitoring programs, for the leaking underground storage tank program, for St. Paul empire builder site environmental contamination remediation compensation grants and for back pay under federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime settlements, to the office of environmental assistance for SCORE grants to counties, for the environmental assistance revolving account and for mixed municipal solid waste processing payments, to the zoological board, to the department of natural resources for iron ore and minerals research, for mineral diversification, for grants or payments to the Mississippi headwaters board and the Leech Lake band of Chippewa Indians for implementation of the upper Mississippi comprehensive plan, for implementation of the Red River mediation agreement and basin flood damage reduction projects, for construction of ring dikes, for a grant to the Lewis and Clark joint powers board for the southwestern Minnesota rural water system, for emergency fire fighting and search and rescue costs, for white pine protection and regeneration, for the focus on community forests program, for implementation of the sustainable forest resources act, for development and implementation of a master logger certification program, for the FORIST timber management information system, for matching grants to protect native oak forests from oak wilt, for state and metropolitan regional parks operation and maintenance, for state park and forest campground operations, for field and regional office computers replacement, for the Big Bog and Red River state recreation areas, for grants to the city of St. Paul to restore the east Como Lake trail and lakeshore in Como park and to the city of Taylors Falls 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 Minnesota River and Mississippi Whitewater trails, for Knife River harbor of refuge and marina improvements, for a Red River canoe and boating route inventory, for fish and wildlife management and enhancement, for the reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) and nongame wildlife management programs, for milfoil program grants, for water monitoring activities, for the county biological survey, for native prairie stewardship expansion, for certain ecological indicators, for county boat and water safety grants, for solid waste, snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle enforcement activities and the ATV environmental and safety education and training program, for protected class employee recruitment and retention, for increased fuel costs, for the hiring of new conservation officers, for metropolitan area natural areas and greenways development, for regional resource enhancement grants, for youth programs operations, for grants to the St. Paul Como zoo and conservatory, to the Duluth zoo and to Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties for emergency communications equipment, to the board of water and soil resources for local natural resources block and soil and water conservation and watershed district grants, for easement and grant programs administrative costs and for reimbursement to the town of West Newton for construction of the St. George community wastewater treatment system, to the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary area commission, to the science museum, to the commissioner of agriculture for continuation and expansion of the dairy development and profitability enhancement grant (dairy diagnostics) program, for ethanol producer payments, for Minnesota grown promotion, sustainable agriculture demonstration project, beaver damage control, shippers association and value added agricultural product processing and marketing grants, for operation of the Minnesota products and production methods certification program, for development of a customer profile for identity preserved crops, for trade marketing specialists contracts, 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 the farm advocates program and for preparation of a feedlot environmental impact statement (EIS), to the board of animal health for the paratuberculosis (Johnes disease) control and avian pneumovirus disease investigation programs, to the Minnesota horticultural society, to the agricultural utilization research institute for hybrid tree management research and development and to the office of strategic and long range planning for a plan to reorganize state water programs and functions; appropriating money to the legislative commission on Minnesota resources (LCMR), 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 and recyclable materials purchase, energy conservation and accessibility requirements and payment conditions; providing for the continued availability of certain prior appropriations, for certain appropriation carryovers and for certain fund transfers; prohibiting the commissioner of natural resources from abandoning the diversion system at Currant Lake in Murray county; providing for the distribution of overtime to conservation officers; authorizing commissioner contracts under the Minnesota conservation corps program; specifying an ethanol producer total payments limit; requiring commissioner of agriculture agricultural chemical response and reimbursement account (ACRRA) fee adjustments; abolishing the Eurasian wild pigs account; expanding the value added agricultural product processing and marketing grant program purpose to the formation of marketing cooperatives and eligibility to family farm corporations, partnerships or limited liability companies; eliminating the late fee for renewal of expired licenses under the Minnesota grown logo or labeling program; modifying the Minnesota agricultural products and production methods certification program certification process, sunset; defining private contributions for Minnesota grown matching account match requirement purposes; modifying certain provisions under the agriculture shared savings loan program, modifying certain loan criteria, increasing loan limits, eliminating a certain loan priority and providing for funding of farm manure digester technology demonstration projects; expanding the purposes of sustainable agriculture demonstration grants and requiring an agricultural marketing specialist on the technical review panel; modifying certain provisions under the agriculture best management practices loan program, providing for the reduction of environmental pollution and for local government unit allocation and lender agreements with the commissioner; expanding the definition of agricultural commodity under the agricultural commodities promotion act to include cultivated wild rice and establishing a cultivated wild rice research and promotion council; establishing the agriculture laboratory to provide analytical and technical services to support programs protecting and enhancing the agriculture, environment and food chain; transferring the waste pesticide account to the agricultural fund; regulating the application of pesticides on school property; modifying certain provisions under the agricultural chemical response and reimbursement law, providing for reimbursement or payment disapproval determination hearings; 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 wholesale produce dealers registration and license fees; modifying certain food handlers licensing requirements, providing for delegation of commissioner retail food handlers licensing and inspection duties to local boards of health and establishing food handler facility floor plan review fees and the food handler plan review and reinspection accounts; increasing the egg handlers annual inspection fee schedule, reducing the egg storage and transportation temperature requirement and providing for uniformity with certain updated federal regulations; adopting federal grading and inspection standards for manufacturing dairy plants and products; increasing the commercial cannery inspection and services assessment maximum, 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; eliminating certain spending authority of the department under the meat and poultry inspection program; imposing milk procurement and dairy plant approval fees, requiring deposit in the dairy services account in the agricultural fund and specifying a certain inspection requirement relating to the finding of certain milk residues; modifying certain requirements for grade A pasteurized milk and laboratory certification fees and clarifying the tanker inspection requirement; updating uniform quality standards for milk used for manufacturing purposes to certain federal regulations; modifying the grade requirements for butter; modifying the definitions of selected class dairy products relating to certain federal regulations; changing the beverage inspection fund to a beverage inspection account in the agricultural fund; modifying certain provisions relating to the rural finance authority (RFA), authorizing a state auditor designee to serve on the authority board, eliminating the debt to asset ratio requirement for restructured loan eligibility purposes, increasing the authority dollar amount participation limit for agricultural improvement loans and eliminating the prohibition on use of the loans to refinance existing debt; expanding the value added agricultural product loan program to already owned and operated processing facilities; providing for the disposition and use of natural disaster reimbursements to the commissioner of natural resources; changing the name of the youth corps program to the Minnesota conservation corps program, eliminating the corps to career community service program and extending the expiration date of the advisory committee; authorizing use of the snowmobile trails and enforcement account for grants to local law enforcement agencies; setting the fee for the ATV environmental and safety education and training program, requiring the commissioner to incorporate a riding component in the program and modifying certain operation restrictions; providing statutory descriptions for the Minnesota River and central lakes trails; modifying the crediting of certain state park fees; authorizing commissioner designation of canoe and boating routes on the Long Prairie and Red rivers; clarifying the authority of the commissioner under the Lake Superior safe harbors program; creating a certain exception to the prohibition on the use of motor vehicles on unsafe ice; modifying certain provisions relating to decorative forest products; modifying the deposit of penalties imposed for violation of wildfire regulations; modifying certain reporting requirements of the forest resources council relating to activities of regional forest committees; extending the expiration date of the mineral coordinating committee; clarifying the requirement for the commissioner to adopt rules governing contests for the selection of game or fish stamp designs; requiring and providing for the commissioner to appoint certain game and fish fund citizen oversight subcommittees; imposing a fee for the mailing of pictorial turkey or trout and salmon stamps and clarifying certain stamp signature, validation and possession requirements; eliminating the separate angling license for senior citizens; expanding the definition of agricultural land under the hunting trespass law; specifying the duration of PCA 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 regardless of the rule repeal; 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; requiring and providing for director temporary mixed municipal solid waste processing payments to counties; modifying certain PCA waste tire management authority; extending the drycleaner environmental and reimbursement account interim fees provision; modifying certain reimbursement provisions and corrective action performance audit requirements under the petroleum tank release cleanup program and expanding sanctions to consultants or contractors failing to supervise employees or representatives for requirements compliance purposes and the sunset provision; limiting the duration of PCA hazardous waste generator licenses and expanding the transportation rule exemption to 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 local and state shares; 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; authorizing the inclusion of natural gasoline in E85 motor fuel under gasoline and special fuels tax provisions; 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 at certain unpermitted mixed municipal solid waste disposal facilities; granting certain conservation law enforcement authority to federally recognized Indian tribes; extending the expiration dates for the farmer lender mediation act, for certain sustainable forest management provisions and for the iron range off-highway vehicle recreation area advisory committee; moving a certain prior appropriation to the DNR to resurface a certain portion of the Milan trail in Chippewa county; extending the deadline 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 director of the office of strategic and long range planning to develop and present to the legislature a plan for the reorganization of the state water programs and functions; temporarily suspending a certain rule restricting the sale or distribution of biological products and antigens used exclusively for poultry; requiring the commissioners of administration, transportation (DOT), natural resources and revenue to work with 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 acquire land for a small craft harbor on Lake Superior at McQuade road and to impose a permanent moratorium on the removal of sunken logs from inland waters; requiring the commissioner of finance to submit to the legislature by a certain date a report identifying certain accounts in the special revenue fund and report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to waive the excessive civil fines levied against dairy producers for certain adulterated dairy products violations occurring between certain dates and to reimburse the amount waived to dairy producers already paying the fines; repealing certain statutory provisions relating to the classification of certain agricultural packer and stockyard data, a requirement for the attorney general to assign a deputy to act as an adviser to the commissioner of agriculture, the payment of certain commissioner expenditures by approved voucher, the requirements for the commissioner to approve state appropriations to agricultural associations or societies and to certify the trophic state of waters used for aquatic farming, the memorandum of agreement among state and federal agencies on inspections of agricultural operations, the prohibition on the importation of European rabbits, the Minnesota dairy producers board, Market Champ, Inc. established to transfer high quality swine genetic material from the university of Minnesota to family farmers, certain swine identification requirements before slaughter, certain grain inspection requirements, grasshopper control on public utility easements, commissioner enforcement of certain formerly repealed chemical compound restrictions, the prohibition on the sale of linseed oil, the Minnesota paint and varnish law, wood alcohol labeling requirements, commissioner hay and straw standards regulation, seizure and confiscation of motor vehicles used in the illegal sale or transport of produce, the department division of poultry industries, commissioner regulation of the sale of strawberries and raspberries, certain food handler plan review fees, frozen food processing plants, standards and grades for honey, packers price and contract reports, certain dairy industry price discrimination and records provisions, certain provisions regulating light butter and reduced fat cheese, the Minnesota filled dairy products act, the definitions of reduced fat, low fat and nonfat ice cream, the regulation of butter substitutes, certain animal health regulation provisions and the requirement for the board of animal health to charge the state agricultural society for certain state fair services, the federal land and water fund and the natural resources federal reimbursement account, a certain decorative trees bill of sale requirement, new ISTS technologies, waste tire management, the lead fund, petroleum tank release cleanup reimbursements, the motor vehicle salvage facilities cleanup cost share program and certain chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) packaging prohibitions and certain rules relating to retail food handlers plan review fees, pollution 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(ja)