Providing a state policy for basin watershed management; defining certain terms; specifying board watershed management purposes; requiring establishment of basin boards in major river basins including Rainy River, Great Lakes, St. Croix River, Middle Mississippi River, Lower Mississippi-Cedar Rivers, Upper Mississippi River and Minnesota River basins, specifying certain basin board membership requirements and duties; establishing advisory committees and specifying membership requirements, regulating basin management plans, watershed management organization plans, allowing a county or soil and water conservation district to use plans to meet certain local water management plan requirements, ad valorem property tax levy authority, expanding the definition of special taxing districts; providing an establishment petition order process, amendment and termination process; authorizing adoption of additional performance and operational standards for member watershed management entities by a basin board, providing for corrective actions; authorizing a base grant award to a basin board for the development and implementation of the plan; requiring an annual report to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the board of soil and water resources (BWSR)
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