3E Relating to bioenergy development; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to establish a clean energy capital equipment revolving loan fund to receive appropriations and make loans for capital equipment to persons participating in the reinvest in Minnesota clean energy program; providing for cellulosic biofuel development; defining cellulosic biofuel, material and facility and other terms relating to cellulosic biofuel development, specifying a production goal and requiring commissioner cash payments to eligible cellulosic biofuel producers under certain conditions; providing for a bioenergy production incentive; defining bioenergy production, crops and project area, requiring the commissioner to make cash payment to bioenergy producers under certain conditions; requiring the board of soil and water resources (BOWSR) to establish and administer an additional reinvest in Minnesota clean energy program, defining eligible land, providing for the designation of project areas, easements, property rights, landowner agreements, easements and enforcement and damages; requiring BOWSR to appoint a technical committee, specifying membership; appropriating money to BOWSR to develop RIM clean energy guidelines and standards; appropriating money to BOWSR and authorizing the issuance of state bonds to acquire RIM clean energy program easements and for long term inspection and protection of easements; requiring the commissioner of finance to transfer a certain amount from the general fund to the clean energy capital equipment revolving fund; appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for bioenergy crop utilization technologies, to the agricultural utilization research institute for technical assistance and technology transfer to bioenergy crop producers and users, to BOWSR for certain grants, to the Minnesota institute for sustainable agriculture at the university of Minnesota for bioenergy agronomic economic and policy research and to the commissioner of agriculture for business development assistance grants
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