4E Relating to natural resources; renaming the legislative commission on Minnesota resources (LCMR) the legislative citizen commission on Minnesota resources (LCCMR); modifying the definition of public official to include a citizen member of the LCCMR; providing for an appropriation to the environment and natural resources trust fund and restricting the use of the fund to certain purposes; modifying membership and duties of the LCCMR, requiring state senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointees; providing for a citizen selection committee; providing for the appointment of technical advisory committees; appropriating money to the LCCMR; modifying a certain prior appropriation for clean energy resource teams and community wind energy rebate program to include the financial assistance program; providing for a carryforward for certain local initiative grants for parks and natural areas; providing for continuity; specifying transition provisions for legislative members; appropriating money from the environment and natural resources trust fund to the legislative-citizen commission on Minnesota resources and specifying a prior appropriation for the commission; appropriating money from the environment and natural resources trust fund to the science museum to create groundwater exhibits and a statewide traveling groundwater classroom program, to the commissioner of commerce for an agreement with the Phillips community energy cooperative to assist in the distribution system equipment and construction costs of a biomass district energy system and for an agreement with the Virginia public utility to lease land and plant trees to support a proposed conversion to a biomass power plant, to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for an agreement with Hennepin county to develop geographic information system tools for prioritizing natural areas for protection and restoration, for an agreement with Aitkin county for a revolving loan fund to improve public and private land ownership patterns and protect critical habitat in Aitkin, Cass and Crow Wing counties, for fee title acquisition and easements on certain riparian lands for watershed protection, and for conservation easement acquisition, to the university of Minnesota for the large lakes observatory for research on Lake Superior and for the natural resources institute, to the legislative commission on Minnesota resources to issue a request for a proposal for statewide comprehensive plan development; revisor instructions; repealing the citizen advisory committee
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