Defining riparian buffers; establishing a state policy to protect and establish buffers; requiring buffers of perennially rooted vegetation adjacent to all perennial waters and specifying size; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to establish and maintain a county inventory map, allowing alternative practices and exemptions, requiring soil and water conservation districts local implementation, allowing DNR penalty orders and soil and water conservation districts funds withholding, and financial assistance; requiring soil and water conservation district granting of conditional compliance waivers to certain landowners
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