HF 976
SECOND ENGROSSMENT
ARTICLE 1: AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS
Section 1: Agriculture appropriations summarized.
Section 2: Agriculture money appropriated.
Section 3: Department of Agriculture money appropriated.
Section 4: Board of Animal Health money appropriated.
Section 5: Agricultural Utilization Research Instituted money appropriated.
ARTICLE 2: AGRICULTURE POLICY
Section 1: Commissioner of Agriculture cooperation with federal agencies provision modified.
Section 2: Commissioner of Agriculture promotional expenditures provision modified.
Section 3: Livestock Investment Grant Program definitions modified.
Section 4: Agricultural water quality certification program implementation and pilot program provided for.
Section 5: Agricultural water quality certification program terms defined.
Section 6: Agricultural water quality certification instrument development required.
Section 7: Agricultural water quality certifying agent licensing and requirements provided for.
Section 8: Agricultural water quality certifying agent duties provided.
Section 9: Agricultural water quality certification procedures provided.
Section 10: Agricultural water quality certification certainty provided for.
Section 11: Agricultural water quality audits provided for.
Section 12: Agricultural water quality data practices provided.
Section 13: Agricultural water quality rulemaking provided.
Section 14: Agricultural water quality reports required.
Section 15: Agricultural water quality financial assistance provided for.
Section 16: Noxious weed control definition modified.
Section 17: Noxious weed eradication definition modified.
Section 18: Permanent pasture, hay meadow, woodlot, or other noncrop area definition modified.
Section 19: Noxious weed propagating parts definition modified.
Section 20: Noxious weeds categories established and provided.
Section 21: Weed control agreement provision modified.
Section 22: Control or eradication of noxious weeds training provision modified.
Section 23: Noxious weed designation provision modified.
Section 24: Noxious weed transport permit provision modified.
Section 25: Noxious Weed Advisory Committee duties modified.
Section 26: Noxious Weed Advisory Committee membership modified.
Section 27: Bulk pesticide storage facility defined.
Section 28: Agricultural waste pesticide disposal site requirements modified.
Section 29: Pesticide storage safeguards modified.
Section 30: Use of water supplies for filling application equipment provisions modified.
Section 31: Pesticide handling provisions modified.
Section 32: Agricultural pesticide registration application and gross sales fee provisions modified.
Section 33: Pesticide education and training provisions modified.
Section 34: Agricultural pesticide sale requirement provisions modified.
Section 35: Agricultural pesticide dealer provisions modified.
Section 36: Agricultural pesticide dealer responsibility modified.
Section 37: Agricultural pesticide report of sales and payment to commissioner provision modified.
Section 38: Agricultural pesticide dealer license application provision modified.
Section 39: Agricultural pesticide incident response plan provision modified.
Section 40: Commercial animal waste technician provisions modified.
Section 41: Commercial animal waster application requirement provisions modified.
Section 42: Commissioner of Agriculture organic agriculture-related duties modified.
Section 43: Cellulosic biofuel production goal provision modified.
Section 44: Cellulosic biofuel production provision expiration modified.
Section 45: NextGen Energy definitions added.
Section 46: NextGen Energy Board duties modified.
Section 47:NextGen Energy Board provisions expiration date modified.
Section 48: Agricultural growth, research, and innovation program grant provision added.
Section 49: Rural Finance Authority restructured loan agreement provision modified.
Section 50: Minnesota Agricultural Leadership Council expiration date modified.
Section 51: Coordinating economic development and environmental policy definitions modified.
Section 52: Eminent domain contiguous land provisions modified.
Section 53: Grain buyer bond requirements amended.
Section 54: Public grain warehouse bond determination provisions modified.
Section 55: Advanced biofuel definition modified.
Section56: Biofuel definition modified.
Section 57: Conventional biofuel definition modified.
Section 58: Oxygenated gasoline minimum biofuel content provisions modified. .
Section 59: Oxygenated gasoline Federal Clean Air Act waiver provisions modified.
Section 60: Oxgenated gasoline limited liability waiver provision modified.
Section 61: Petroleum replacement promotion goal provisions modified.
Section 62: Biobutanol definition modified.
Section 63: E85 definition modified.
Section 64: Revisor instructed to renumber.
Section 65: Certain provisions repealed.
ARTICLE 3: ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES APPROPRIATIONS
Section 1 and 2: Environment and natural resources appropriations summarized.
Section 3: Pollution Control Agency money appropriated.
Section 4: Natural Resources money appropriated.
Section 5: Board of Water and Soil Resources money appropriated.
Section 6: Metropolitan Council money appropriated.
Section 7: Conservation Corps Minnesota money appropriated.
Section 8: Zoological Board money appropriated.
ARTICLE 4: ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY
Section 1: Commissioner of Natural Resources federal law compliance provided.
Section 2: Exchange of road easements provided.
Section 3: Off-highway motorcycle grant-in-aid donations provided for.
Section 4: Off-highway motorcycle registration revenue provision modified.
Section 5: Off-road vehicle grant-in-aid trail donations provided for.
Section 6: Off-road vehicle registration revenue provision modified.
Section 7: Limited nontrail use snowmobile registration provided.
Section 8: Snowmobile grant-in-aid trail donations provided for.
Section 9: Snowmobile trails and enforcement account provision modified.
Section 10: All-terrain vehicle grant-in-aid trail contributions provided for.
Section11: All-terrain vehicle no registration weekend required.
Section 12: All-terrain vehicle youthful operator prohibition provisions modified.
Section 13: All-terrain vehicle operation requirements provision modified.
Section14: Polinator habitat program established and provided for.
Section 15: Invasive species permit requirement provisions modified.
Section 16: Arrowhead Region trail provisions modified.
Section 17: State park reservation system provision modified.
Section 18: La Salle Lake State Recreation Area permits and fee provision modified.
Section19: State park permit fees modified.
Section 20: State park fee deposit and appropriation provision modified.
Section 21: Cross-country ski grant-in-aid trail donations provided for.
Section 22: Cross-country ski user fee provision modified.
Section 23: Cross-country ski disposition of receipts modified.
Section 24: Horse pass disposition of receipts provision modified.
Section 25: Horse pass trail donations provided for.
Section 26: Forest management investment account cost certification provision modified.
Section 27: State forest leases and permits provisions modified.
Section 28: Timber lands scaler definition modified.
Section 29: Timber lands state appraiser definition modified.
Section 30: Timber definition modified.
Section 31: Timber lands permit holder definition modified.
Section 32: Timber lands effective permit definition modified.
Section 33: Timber rules provision modified.
Section 34: Trespass on state lands provision modified.
Section 35: Forest improvement contract provision modified.
Section 36: Damaged timber sale provision modified.
Section 37: Unsold timber reoffering provision modified.
Section 38: Timber lands fees provision modified.
Section 39: Timber lands permit holder debarment provision modified.
Section 40: Timber appraisal standards provision modified.
Section 41: Timber appraiser authority and document form provision modified.
Section 42: Timber public auction sale requirements modified.
Section 43: Timber intermediate auction sales provision modified.
Section 44: Timber purchaser qualifications, registration, and requirement provisions modified.
Section 45: Timber cutting and removal permit issuance and expiration provisions modified.
Section 46: Timber cutting and removal permit requirement provisions modified.
Section 47: Timber cutting and removal permit security provisions modified.
Section 48: Timber cutting and removal permit terms provision modified.
Section 49: Timber cutting and removal permit notice and approval requirement provision modified.
Section 50: Timber cut in trespass liability provision modified.
Section 51: Timber cutting and removal permit suspension and cancellation provision modified.
Section 52: Timber slashings disposal provision modified.
Section 53: Security deposits for effective timber permits provisions modified.
Section 54: Bond or deposit alternative permit requirement provisions modified.
Section 55: Timber permit development option provided.
Section 56: Auction timber permit assignment provision modified.
Section 57: Timber permit deferred payments provision modified.
Section 58: State timber sale requirements modified.
Section 59: Timber permit extension provision modified.
Section 60: Timber special use and permit provisions modified.
Section 61: Timber sale prompt payment of refunds provision modified.
Section 62: Forfeited timber permit money provision modified.
Section 63: Timber sales recordkeeping provisions modified.
Section 64: Consumer scaling language modified.
Section 65: Unlawfully cut timber seizure provision modified.
Section 66: Trespasser apprehension and award provision modified.
Section67: State appraiser and scaler violations and penalty provisions modified.
Section 68: Unsold state lands subject to sale lease provisions modified.
Section 69: Mineral land lease application cost modified.
Section 70: Mineral land lease application provisions modified.
Section 71: Mineral land lease requirements modified.
Section 72: Stockpile mining unit provisions modified.
Section 73: Scram mining defined and clarified.
Section 74: Mining permit provisions modified.
Section 75: Mining permit release provision modified.
Section 76: Mining permit assignment application fee modified.
Section 77: Mining permit preapplication provided for.
Section 78: Mining reclamation fee provisions modified.
Section 79: Mineral data and inspections administration account established, and money appropriated.
Section 80: Drill core library access fee provided.
Section 81: State-owned construction aggregates reclamation account created and money appropriated.
Section 82: State-owned construction aggregates reclamation fee required and provided for.
Section 83: Wild animal special permit provisions modified.
Section 84: Water use permit for diversion greater than 2,000,000 gallons per day provisions modified.
Section 85: Water use permit for consumptive use greater than 2,000,000 gallons per day provisions modified.
Section 86: Water use permit processing fees modified.
Section 87: Water appropriation impact monitoring provisions modified.
Section 88: Groundwater appropriation applications and preliminary well construction approval provisions modified.
Section 89: Groundwater appropriation sustainability standard language modified.
Section 90: Aquatic plant harvest and control fees modified.
Section 91: Well construction notification requirement provisions modified.
Section 92: Exploratory boring inspection fee required.
Section 93: Clean Water Act expenditure and accountability provisions modified.
Section 94: Wastewater laboratory certification required and provided for.
Section 95: Pollution Control Agency duties modified.
Section 96: Carpet product stewardship program created and provided for.
Section 97: Architectural paint product stewardship program created and provided for.
Section 98: Primary batteries product stewardship program created and provided for.
Section 99: Toxics and pollution prevention evaluation and report to legislature and governor provisions modified.
Section 100: Remediation fund money report to legislature provisions modified.
Section 101: Pollution Control Agency duties modified.
Section 102: Corrective action definition modified.
Section 103: Petroleum tank fund expenditure provisions modified.
Section 104: Petroleum tank fund disposition of property acquired for corrective action provided for.
Section 105: Toxic pollution prevention evaluation report provision modified.
Section 106: Storage tank affidavit provisions modified.
Section 107: Environmental Quality Board membership provisions modified.
Section 108: Environmental Quality Board support provisions modified.
Section 109: Environmental Quality Board administration provision modified.
Section 110: Silica sand mining model standards and criteria developed and provided for.
Section 111: Technical assistance, ordinance, and permit library creation and maintenance provided for.
Section 112: Groundwater environmental assessment worksheet provisions modified.
Section 113: Critical habitat plate requirement and procedure provisions modified.
Section 114: Metropolitan Council landfill abatement funding report to legislature provision modified.
Section 115: School trust lands director and legislative permanent school fund commission cost provision modified.
Section 116: North Mississippi Regional Park boundaries and other provisions modified.
Section 117: Wastewater treatment systems provisions modified.
Section 118: Timber sale permit cancellation provided for.
Section 119: Possession and transportation of wildlife rulemaking provided for.
Section 120: Display of paddle board license number rulemaking provided for.
Section 121: Industrial minerals and nonferrous mineral leases rulemaking provided for.
Section 122: Mining permit rulemaking provided for.
Section 123: Silica sand rulemaking provided for.
Section 124: Fugitive emissions rulemaking provided for.
Section 125: Various statutes and rules repealed.
ARTICLE 5: SANITARY DISTRICTS
Section 1: Special taxing districts definition modified.
Section2: Sanitary district terms defined.
Section 3: Sanitary districts applicability provided for.
Section 4: Sanitary districts procedures and authority provided for.
Section 5: Sanitary district proceeding map filing provided for.
Section 6: Sanitary district creation provided for.
Section 7: Sanitary district annexation provided for.
Section 8: Sanitary district detachment provided for.
Section 9: Sanitary district dissolution provided for.
Section 10: Sanitary district joint public informational meetings provided for.
Section 11: Sanitary district annexation by order of Pollution Control Agency provided for.
Section 12: Sanitary district petitioners required to pay expenses.
Section 13: Sanitary district time limits for orders and appeals provided.
Section 14: Chief administrative law judge appeal from district court allowed.
Section 15: Sanitary district uniform procedures provided.
Section 16: Sanitary district board of managers provided for.
Section 17: Sanitary district board organization and procedures provided.
Section 18: Sanitary district status and powers provided.
Section 19: Sanitary district specific purposes and powers provided.
Section 20: Sanitary district projects and facilities provided.
Section 21: Sanitary facility control provided for.
Section 22: Sanitary district program, survey, and study development allowed.
Section 23: Sanitary district general and municipality powers provided for.
Section 24: Advisory committee appointment provided for.
Section 25: Sanitary district board powers provided for.
Section 26: Sanitary district board tax levies, assessments, and services charges provided for.
Section 27: Sanitary district board borrowing powers and bonding provided for.
Section 28: Sanitary district treasury and funds provided for.
Section 29: Sanitary district ordinances and facilities effects provided for.
Section 30: Application of sanitary district chapter provided.
Section 31: Chief administrative law judge's powers provided.
Section 32: Various statutes repealed.
Section 33: August 1, 2013 effective date provided for sections 1-32.