Appropriating money for environment and natural resources purposes

ARTICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for the clean water partnership program, community technical assistance and education, individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) administration and grants, surface water quality and trends assessments, clean water legacy implementation, total maximum daily loads (TMDL) development, economic sectors development regulation such as ethanol and mining, air monitoring, the leaking underground storage tank program, health assessments, drinking water, environmental assistance, county SCORE block grants, alternative fuel use promotion, pollutant emission and greenhouse gases reduction, to the commissioners of the PCA and department of agriculture for environmental response and liability, to the department of natural resources (DNR) for land and mineral resources management, iron ore cooperative research, minerals cooperative environment research, accelerated land sales, leasing and exchanges, state administered mineral resources management, the land records management system, water resources management, the Red river mediation agreement, the Mississippi headwaters board and the Leech lake band of Chippewa Indians for the upper Mississippi comprehensive plan, ring dike construction, surface and groundwater issues relating to ethanol production, impaired waters identification, forest management, the sustainable forest resources act implementation, FORIST timber management information system, ecological classification systems (ECS) standards, firewood regulation education, parks and recreation and trails and waterways and fish and wildlife management, off highway vehicle grants in aid, state trail operations, water access sites, fishing contest permits, domestic animal disease and invasive species spreading prevention, grassland and wetland complexes preservation, ecological services, nongame management, boat and water safety, snowmobile enforcement, off highway motorcycle education and the Como zoo and conservatory and the Duluth zoo, to the board of soil and water resources (BOWSR) for local government natural resources block grants, soil and water conservation districts, Red river basin commission, Area II Minnesota river basin projects, clean water legacy and wetland conservation act implementation, a comprehensive state wetland restoration plan, drainage work group recommendations implementation, to the metropolitan council for regional parks and trails maintenance and operations, to the Minnesota conservation corps and to the legislative citizen commission on Minnesota resources for environmental protection fund programs

ARTICLE 2 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY

Providing for the crediting of certain money received from gifts, grants,
reimbursement or appropriation to the natural resources fund; allowing the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to sell forest resource assessment products; removing the requirement for unused balances to be transferred by a certain date to the off highway vehicle and damage account; establishing an off highway vehicles safety and conservation program, authorizing the commissioner to enter into informal agreements for volunteer services, prohibiting worker displacement; expanding the use of the all terrain vehicle (ATV) account for maintenance purposes; creating the invasive species account for deposit of surcharges of certain watercraft licenses and trailers for management of invasive species purposes; adding surcharges for certain watercraft, watercraft dealers licenses, specifying certain use and deposit requirements; clarifying use of certain license revenues requirements by the commissioner of natural resources; adding a surcharge for certain nonresident fishing licenses; modifying permit requirements for fishing contests, imposing a fee for permits to conduct a fishing contest, authorizing the commissioner to establish contest permit fees; modifying trailer and towed recreational vehicle registration taxes, imposing a surcharge, specifying deposit of proceeds requirements; modifying percentage of gasoline use attributable to all-terrain vehicles; specifying a new deadline for the continuous trail designation; repealing sustainable forest resources provisions and the minerals management account
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