Relating to the environment; requiring the commissioner of the pollution control agency in a certain progress report to describe certain reductions made in mercury emissions and to estimate the amount of reduction achieved overall specifically resulting from the implementation of a voluntary reduction plan; imposing certain limits on mercury emissions for coal fired steam electric generating facilities; requiring owners or operators of generating units to submit compliance plans to the commissioner, specifying certain plan content and update and compliance certification reporting requirements; providing for the determination of compliance with certain federal continuous emissions monitoring system performance specifications; prohibiting the commissioner from issuing air quality permits for new or expanded electric generating units causing total annual statewide mercury emissions to exceed certain limits; modifying certain public utility mercury emissions report content requirements; requiring projects approved for the emissions reduction rate rider to be designed to reduce emissions of several pollutants simultaneously and extending the expiration date of the rider; establishing the taconite mercury control research account and appropriating money in the account to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to implement and maintain a taconite mercury control research grant program for the development of technology to reduce mercury emissions from taconite indurating and direct reduced iron furnaces to a certain level, specifying grant eligibility requirements, certain findings responsibilities of the commissioner and certain rule adoption requirements of the PCA, requiring the PCA to incorporate mercury reductions into air quality permits of the furnaces
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