Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government,
appropriating money for environment, natural resources and energy purposes

ARTICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to pollution control agency (PCA) for water, air, land, environmental assistance and cross-media and administrative support, to commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for land and mineral resources, water resources, forest, parks and trails and fish and wildlife management, ecological services, enforcement and operations support, to board of water and soil resources (BWSR) for grants and certain allowable activities, to metropolitan council for regional parks and trails maintenance and certain allowable activities, to the Minnesota conservation corps upon agreement with the DNR commissioner, to zoological board, to Science Museum of Minnesota, and to the legislative-citizen commission on Minnesota resources; providing for certain fund transfers; providing for the disposition of certain utility license application and crossing fees, establishing supplemental application fee and monitoring fees, specifying certain duties of DNR commissioner; imposing certain land management easement application and monitoring fees; imposing fees for certain road easement construction monitoring activities; imposing an application fee for release of an unneeded state easement; imposing an application fee for state trail easements for ingress and egress; requiring commissioner to administer a program to provide local recreation grants to units of government for acquisition and betterment of public land and improvements to support parks, outdoor recreation areas and trails; imposing application fees for a permit to mine for a taconite, nonferrous metallic minerals, scram mining or peat operation and requiring submittal of a permit amendment application fee with the written application, specifying certain regulations for the mining administration account; imposing certain mining reclamation fees, annual permit to mine fees, supplemental application fee for taconite and nonferrous metallic minerals mining operation and reclamation fee on taconite iron ore produced; modifying certain emergency deer feeding and wild cervidae health management account requirements; modifying certain general water permit application fee and field inspection fees requirements; modifying electronic waste account provision; repealing a certain provision relating to mining administrative fees

ARTICLE 2 - ENERGY

Providing a summary of energy finance appropriations; appropriating money to department of commerce for financial examinations, petroleum tank release clean board, administrative services, telecommunications, market assurance office of energy security and telecommunication access Minnesota and to the public utilities commission (PUC); modifying and establishing assessments for certain regulatory expenses; modifying certain provisions relating to commerce department general powers and insurance powers and certain public utility assessments; specifying department duties relating to assessing public utilities, cooperative electric associations and municipal utilities for certain activity costs; creating an audit investigation account for public utility operations, practices or policies investigation activity inquiries costs, specifying certain deposit requirements; creating an audit investigation account for telephone company or telecommunications carriers operations, practice or policies investigation activity inquiries costs; repealing a certain provision relating to homeowner insurance expedited form and rate filing
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