1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to the environment; requiring an environmental impact statement for 
1.3 	atrazine, chlorpyrifos, and acetochlor; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT; ATRAZINE, 
1.6 	CHLORPYRIFOS, AND ACETOCHLOR; APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	(a) The Environmental Quality Board shall conduct an environmental impact 
1.8 	statement, under Minnesota Statutes, section 116D.04, on the use of atrazine, chlorpyrifos, 
1.9 	and acetochlor in the state.
1.10 	(b) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.1283, the commissioner 
1.11 	of agriculture shall determine and collect an adequate surcharge on the registration of 
1.12 	atrazine, chlorpyrifos, and acetochlor, under Minnesota Statutes, section 18B.26, to 
1.13 	pay all costs of the environmental impact statement required under paragraph (a). The 
1.14 	surcharge is exempt from the rulemaking provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter 
1.15 	14, and Minnesota Statutes, section 14.386, does not apply. Money collected from the 
1.16 	surcharge shall be deposited into the pesticide regulatory account in the agricultural fund.
1.17 	(c) The amount necessary for conducting the environmental impact statement 
1.18 	required under paragraph (a) is appropriated from the pesticide regulatory account in the 
1.19 	agricultural fund to the Environmental Quality Board.