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HF 2986 Senate Long Description

Exempting a certain iron nugget production scale demonstration +facility from certain environmental review requirements, specifying certain project qualification requirements, requiring shutdown of taconite pellet +furnaces under certain conditions; requiring the department of natural +resources (DNR), the environmental quality board (EQB), the pollution control agency +and other state agencies with permit granting authority to provide public +notice for necessary permits for the facility within a certain period of time of+ receiving complete applications; requiring the PCA to strive in the permitting +process to assure the lowest mercury emissions reasonably possible; requiring +permit applications to comply with applicable law, exceptions; environmental+ review requirements exemption not to affect existing permit requirements +requiring environmental review for commercial scale iron nugget facility +located on the north shore of Lake Superior (Ch. 220, 2004)