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SF 1018 Senate Long Description

2E Requiring the environmental quality board (EQB) to develop model standards and criteria for mining, processing, and transporting silica sand and other nonmetallic minerals for use by local governmental units, specifying standards and criteria requirements; requiring the board to assemble a silica sand technical assistance team; requiring the board, in conjunction with local governments, to create and maintain an online library of local government ordinances and permits; authorizing the pollution control agency (PCA), department of natural resources (DNR) and department of health to adopt certain rules relating to silica sand and silica sand mines; appropriating money to the PCA and the DNR
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