1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to the environment; allowing counties to make an abbreviated report in 
1.3 	2010; requiring a report to the legislature.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. SCORE REPORTING.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1.2010 requirement. The requirements for the report specified in 
1.7 	Minnesota Statutes, section 115A.557, subdivision 3, paragraph (b), clause (2), that is due 
1.8 	April 1, 2010, shall be abbreviated in scope. The information collected shall be sufficient 
1.9 	for the commissioner to determine that counties have complied with the requirements 
1.10 	of this subdivision.
1.11 		Subd. 2.Recommendations; report. The commissioner of the Pollution Control 
1.12 	Agency, in consultation with the Association of Minnesota Counties, the Solid Waste 
1.13 	Administrators Association, the Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board, and other 
1.14 	interested parties shall make recommendations to amend the reporting requirements under 
1.15 	Minnesota Statutes, section 115A.557, subdivision 3, in ways that reduce the resources 
1.16 	counties employ to collect the data reported, while insuring that estimation methods used 
1.17 	to report data are consistent across counties and that the data reported is accurate and 
1.18 	useful as a guide to solid waste management policy makers. The commissioner shall also 
1.19 	make recommendations regarding the feasibility and desirability of multicounty reporting 
1.20 	of the data. The commissioner's recommendations must be presented in a report submitted 
1.21 	to the chairs and ranking minority members of the senate and house of representatives 
1.22 	committees and divisions with primary jurisdiction over solid waste policy and finance 
1.23 	no later than December 15, 2009.