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SF 2738 Senate Long Description

E Relating to natural resources; requiring the crediting of a certain amount of money from the lease of state lands or buildings to the fund charged with the cost of maintenance and appropriating money in the funds to the commissioner of natural resources for maintenance costs; authorizing the commissioner to make shoreland management grants for aquatic plant restoration projects, research and propagation; exempting motor vehicles using roads to or parking at the DNR regional headquarters in Lake Bemidji state park from state park permit requirements; delaying the deadlines for updating of the timber harvesting and forest management guidelines by the forest resources council and for completion of desired future outcomes and strategies by certain landscape regions; requiring the deposit of federal aid reimbursements under the federal aid in wildlife and fish restoration acts in the game and fish fund and requiring commissioner compliance with the acts; imposing restrictions on the use of game and fish license revenues; providing for use of a certain amount of deer license fees for the management of chronic wasting disease, requiring the commissioner to periodically report to the legislature on expenditures; requiring the commissioner to allow one day paper fishing licenses to be sold by fishing guides operating charter boats; modifying certain prior iron ore or minerals cooperative research appropriation match requirements; modifying certain prior specific appropriations to the commissioner for operating costs of the Red River and Big Bog state recreation areas and making a general appropriation for state park operations; extending the availability of certain prior appropriations to the commissioner for metropolitan area regional parks and trails maintenance and operations, for trail grants to local government units, for development and rehabilitation of wildlife management area lands and for grants to the Como and Duluth zoos; appropriating money to the commissioner for research work on Lake Mille Lacs; changing a certain prior authority of the commissioner to make grants under the stream protection and improvement loan program to loans; expanding the authorized use of a certain prior appropriation for development and rehabilitation of wildlife management areas; exempting money appropriated from the Minnesota environment and natural resources trust or Minnesota future resources funds from the moratorium on consultant contracts and the hiring freeze; requiring the commissioner to review the leasing of lakes by private aquaculture licensees and report to the legislature by a certain date, specifying certain assessment requirements (ja)