2E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government; appropriating money for environment, natural resources, and energy

ARTICLE 1- ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to pollution control agency (PCA) for the clean water partnership program, for county feedlot permit program administration grants, for local and basinwide water quality protection technical assistance and education, for subsurface sewage treatment system (SSTS) administration and grants, technology and technical assistance to local governments, for individual septic tank fees administration, for water supply monitoring and health assessment costs, for air quality purposes, for transfer from environmental fund to the small business environmental improvement loan account, for air quality monitoring, for monitoring ambient air for hazardous pollutants in the metropolitan area and for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, for land purposes, for the leaking underground storage tank program, for private water supply monitoring and health assessment costs in areas contaminated by unpermitted mixed municipal sold waste disposal facilities, for environmental health tracking and biomonitoring, for environmental assistance and cross-media purposes, for SCORE block grants to counties, for environmental assistance grants and loans, for the composting grant program, for children's health toxic chemicals in products protection duties, and for administrative support, to commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for land and mineral resources management, for mining permits issuance costs, for land and water crossings and road easements license issuance costs, for iron ore cooperative research and minerals cooperative environmental research and match requirements, for mineral resource management, for school trust lands activities, for water resources management, for water resources management purposes, for Red River mediation agreement implementation grants, for a grant to the Mississippi Headwaters board, for the upper Mississippi comprehensive plan payment to the Leech Lake band of Chippewa Indians, for ring dikes construction, for forest management operations, for the ecological classification systems (ECS) standards program, for completion of a forest lands management study, for emergency firefighting costs, for forest resource management policy and plan purposes, for the forest resources council for implementation of the sustainable forest resources act, for parks and recreation management, for nature-based outdoor recreation participation activities, for enhancing public water access facilities and for downloadable GPS coordinates and river gauge data interpretation, for state park and recreation area operations and Explore Minnesota tourism activities, for snowmobile and off-highway grants in aid, for state trail operations and specifying sign requirements for the Northshore/C. J. Ramstad trail, for fish and wildlife management purposes, for gray wolf research, wild deer population bovine tuberculosis control, for walleye stocking, for wildlife acquisition costs, for fish and wildlife resources improvement, enhancement and protection activities, for expanding hunter and angler recruitment and retention and public land user facilities, to publicize the critical habitat license plate match program, for trout and salmon management, for deer habitat improvements, for deer and bear, waterfowl, pheasant and wild turkey management, for grassland wetland complexes on public and private lands programs and efforts, for ecological services, for nongame management and activities, for heritage enhancement activities for fish and wildlife resources, for law enforcement and management to prevent the spread of invasive species, management of invasive plants in public waters and of terrestrial invasive species on state lands, for certain integrated ecological resource management, health watersheds and landscapes input and program activities, for enforcement purposes, for boat and water safety county grants, for local law enforcement agencies snowmobile enforcement grants, for fish and wildlife enforcement activities, for county law enforcement agencies grants for off-highway vehicle enforcement and public education activities based on off-highway vehicle use in the county and for qualifying organization grants to assist in safety and environmental education and monitoring trails on public lands, for operations support for the city of St. Paul for the Como zoo and conservatory and the city of Duluth for the zoo, to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) for natural resources block grants to local governments, match, for soil and water conservation districts grants for general purposes, nonpoint engineering and implementation of the reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) conservation reserve program, for cost sharing contracts for erosion control and water quality management, for establishing and maintaining vegetation buffers of restored prairies, for county cooperative weed management programs on certain lands and to restore native plants in certain invasive species management sites, for the Minnesota River board for major watershed projects within the Minnesota River basin, for grants to Area II Minnesota River basin projects for floodplain management, for the Red River basin commission for water management activities, for the implementation of the Wetland Conservation Act, to the metropolitan council for metropolitan area regional parks maintenance and operations, and for metropolitan area regional parks and trails maintenance and operations, to the Minnesota conservation corps in agreement with the commissioner, to the zoological board and to the Science Museum of Minnesota; providing for the continued availability of certain funds and providing for certain fund transfers; specifying certain report requirements to the legislature; modifying certain deposit requirements for utility crossing fees received from certain utility permits, establishing supplemental application and monitoring fees for utility easements; 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; renaming the Northshore trail the Northshore/C.J. Ramstad memorial trail; prohibiting the sale of lands within the outdoor recreation system; expanding uses of the land management account; imposing application fees for a permit to mine for 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; providing for the exchanges of certain class A riparian lands administered by commissioner; modifying annual payments to counties for public hunting areas and game refuges; modifying certain emergency deer feeding and wild cervidae health management account requirements; modifying the water use permit processing fee schedule; modifying certain general water permit application fee and field inspection fees requirements; modifying certain electronic waste account requirements; modifying the county waste reduction and recycling funding distribution formula; establishing the composting competitive grant program and specifying certain duties of commissioner of pollution control agency (PCA); prohibiting the placement of yard waste or source-separated compostable materials generated in a metropolitan county in a plastic bag delivered to a transfer station or yard waste compost facility, exception; providing a three-part formula for county feedlot program grants and regulating minimum and prorated grants and transfers; requiring identification of certain harmful chemicals in children's products, authorizing department of health to designate priority chemicals of high concern, authorizing participation in interstate chemicals clearinghouse; providing for greenhouse gas emissions registry, requiring commissioner to establish a reporting system and maintain an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions; establishing standards for labeling plastic bags and imposing penalties; authorizing uses for the Hennepin County solid and hazardous waste fund; modifying general distribution requirements and payments to counties for natural resources land; extending the date for the sale of certain state land by commissioner of administration; specifying certain high priority chemical reporting requirements to the legislature by commissioners of health and pollution control agency; allowing county waste management reduction and recycling annual reports (SCORE) to be abbreviated; specifying a certain reorganization prohibition for the environmental quality board prior to a certain date; requiring a report by commissioner of pollution control agency to the legislature by a certain date on environmental review streamlining; repealing the mining administrative fee provision

ARTICLE 2 - ENERGY

Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to department of commerce for telecommunication purposes, for the office of energy security for E-85 grants, for a grant to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for the Duluth natural resources and research institute to develop statewide heat flow maps, for renewable energy community energy technical assistance and outreach, for a green manufacturing nonprofit organization grant, for new solar electricity projects rebates, for telecommunications access Minnesota, for a transfer to commissioner of human services for Minnesota commission serving deaf and hard-of-hearing people supplemental expenses, to commissioner of commerce for a grant to the commission of deaf, deafblind and hard-of-hearing Minnesotans to provide Web site information in American sign language and technical assistance to state agencies and for a grants to legislative coordinating commission (LCC) for a pilot program to provide live streaming of legislative sessions on the commission Web site; extending the time period for renewable energy production incentive payments; directing the use of unexpended wind energy conversion systems incentive payments to qualified on-farm biogas recovery facilities and hydroelectric facilities; requiring commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to lead a multiagency project to advise, promote, market and mandate state agency collaboration on green enterprise and green economy projects; modifying commerce department duties relating to assessing public utilities, cooperative electric associations and municipal utilities for certain activity costs; requiring commissioner of commerce to establish an emerging renewable energy industries grant program to make grants to eligible businesses to assist in the development of renewable energy systems and components for renewable energy systems manufacturing in the state; requiring director of the office of energy security to study the economic and technical feasibility of bulk installation of solar photovoltaic panels on school buildings and requiring feasibility report to the legislature; cancelling and reappropriating the remaining portion of certain prior appropriations for green jobs task force and rural energy development revolving loan fund
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