2E Relating to state government

ARTICLE 1 - AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the department of agriculture for protection services, agricultural marketing and development, agriculture, bioenergy and bioproduct advancement, administration and financial assistance; appropriating money to the board of animal health and the agricultural utilization research institute; appropriating money to the commissioner of agriculture for avian influenza response activities and for transfer to the rural finance authority for disaster recovery loans

ARTICLE 2 - AGRICULTURE POLICY

Modifying certain provisions relating to federal reimbursements regarding the gray wolf being included on the endangered species list, establishing an agricultural fertilizer research and education account, appropriating money; modifying pest control license provisions, commercial applicator license provisions, certain specialty fertilizer, soil amendment and plant amendment application and inspection fees, certain provisions relating to plant protection and export certification provisions and nursery law provisions; establishing the "Industrial Hemp Development Act"; providing for the development and regulation of an industrial hemp industry; defining certain terms; authorizing industrial hemp research, specifying authorized activities and site registration requirements; providing for industrial hemp as an agricultural product; requiring licensing; specifying production and notification requirements; requiring rulemaking by the commissioner of commerce; providing for fees; providing an affirmative defense for possession of marijuana; modifying the definitions of marijuana and wild hemp; making conforming changes modifying Minnesota seed law provisions; providing a food handler licensing requirement exemption for certain cottage foods; allowing direct sales to consumers, specifying a sales limit, requiring annual registration and food handling training; establishing a cottage foods account; repealing exclusions for community events or farmers' market and certain home-processed and home-canned foods; modifying certain provisions in milk and cream testers licenses; modifying a milk procurement fee; establishing the agriculture research, education, extension, and technology transfer grant program to provide investments that will most efficiently achieve long-term agricultural productivity increases through improved infrastructure, vision, and accountability, creating an advisory panel, establishing a fund in the state treasury; establishing production based bioenergy grant programs administered by the department of agriculture; creating the advanced biofuel production incentive program, a renewable chemical production incentive program, and a biomass thermal production incentive program, specifying certain eligibility requirements for all new programs; requiring reports; modifying certain provisions relating to the rural finance authority; establishing the farm opportunity loan program; modifying certain report provisions relating to farming by business organizations; transferring certain account balances; modifying a previous appropriation to second harvest heartland; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to identify causes and submit a report of the relative growth or decline of poultry and livestock production in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Nebraska of a certain time period; establishing a correctional facility vocational training pilot program to train inmates for careers and meat cutters upon release; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to convene a group of stakeholders for the promotion of urban agriculture; repealing the shared savings loan program, certain license fees and penalties, and the annual appropriation to the agricultural utilization research institute

ARTICLE 3 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for clean water and air, land cleanup and for environmental assistance and cross-media; appropriating money to the department of natural resources for land and mineral resources management, ecological and water resources, forest management, parks and trails management, fish and wildlife management, certain enforcement provisions and operations support; appropriating money to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) for natural resource block grant to local government, soil and water general purposes, certain cost-share programs, enforcement and oversight of the wetland conservation act, local drainage, floodplain, and water management purposes; appropriating money to the metropolitan council for regional parks and trails operation and maintenance purposes; appropriating money to Conservation Corps, the zoological board, the science museum and for school trust lands director; modifying the uses of certain returned grant money; modifying certain prior appropriations for fish and wildlife management purposes; repealing certain pollution control agency (PCA) transfers

ARTICLE 4- ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES STATUTORY CHANGES

Modifying provisions related to landfill accounts and postconsumer content of copy paper and certain utility license permits provisions; establishing natural resources conservation easement stewardship accounts for the department of natural resources (DNR) and the board of water and soil resources (BWSR); modifying off-highway motorcycle, snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle (ATV) report of ownership, registration transfers, and ownership termination; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to review off-road vehicle grant-in-aid applications and commence public review of applications within a certain amount of time after local application approval; modifying the registration fees and exemptions for nontrail use of certain snowmobiles; clarifying certain training and operating requirements for all-terrain vehicles (ATV); modifying invasive species provisions; providing for certain connections to state parks and recreation areas and establishing the Mississippi Blufflands trail in Goodhue and Wabasha counties; expanding the Blufflands trail system to include Prosper and a connection to the Iowa border and including Niagara cave in Fillmore county; modifying requirements for fire training; modifying certain auxiliary forest provisions; modifying conservation forest land and state trail and park provisions; excepting the Stuntz Bay boat house area from fee application; exempting the mine tour operation at Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine state park from certain state elevator requirements; modifying the administration of shooting sports facility grants; increasing the threshold for bid increases for which a bid guarantee payment to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) is required; modifying interest rates applicable to timber permit extensions; extinguishing the school trust interest in school trust lands where long-term economic return is prohibited by designation or policy while producing economic benefits for Minnesota public schools; modifying certain state land, game and fish, and fishing and hunting provisions; authorizing a county or watershed district to issue certain penalty orders; establishing wetland stakeholder coordination; establishing natural resources conservation easement stewardship accounts for the board of water and soil resources (BWSR); modifying certain wetland functions for determining public values; modifying the use of property acquired by watershed districts for flood damage reduction purposes; clarifying certain provisions related to the application of cost-sharing funds to fight soil erosion; 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; establishing an in-lieu fee program for wetland replacement; modifying certain wetland replacement siting provisions, wetland rules, evaluation procedures and wetland replacement completion provisions; modifying certain fees and state conservation easements; providing an exception to public waters work permit requirements for certain county or town road projects; modifying certain provisions related to water use and the validation procedure on certain well interference claims; modifying certain water supply plan requirements; establishing the voluntary self-reporting of certain minor environmental violations; requiring independent peer review of water quality studies and standards for certain proposed changes; requiring pollution control agency (PCA) enforcement; specifying conditions for review requirement, modifying certain terms and license provisions related to subsurface sewage systems; modifying the definition of recyclable materials and registration fee provisions relating to the recycling of video display devices; expanding uses of state grants to counties for solid waste reduction and recycling purposes; establishing a recycling competitive grant program; establishing certain registration and reporting requirements relating to the collection of solid waste; clarifying certain costs of installation of a soil vapor mitigation system in private residences; making certain modifications to the functions of the pollution control agency (PCA); clarifying certain environmental review provisions related to silica sand projects; requiring discretionary review notification from the commissioners of natural resources (DNR) and pollution control agency (PCA) when ordering the preparation of a discretionary environmental impact statement or discretionary environmental assessment worksheet; modifying certain regulations on camper cabins and bunk houses; providing for the maintenance of certain records of individuals issued an all-terrain safety certificates; modifying certain public facilities authority program and projects provisions; modifying metropolitan area water supply advisory committee planning activities and specifying certain duties of the policy and technical advisory committees; requiring a report; authorizing the school trust lands director to identify state-owned lands suitable for sale; requiring the pollution control agency (PCA) to adopt rules to streamline the subsurface sewage treatment system (SSTS) license application and renewal process; requiring a report regarding the proposals to implement high priority areas for wetland replacement; specifying all-terrain vehicle registration provisions during the electronic licensing system upgrade; requiring the commissioner of management and budget (MMB) to contract with a nonstate entity for a cost benefit analysis; prohibiting application of wild rice water quality standards until certain conditions are met; appropriating money to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) and the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to study the feasibility of the state assuming administration of the section 404 permit program of the federal Clean Water Act; modifying the use of interest payments from metropolitan parks appropriations; using funds for all recreational space under metropolitan council jurisdiction; allowing the issuance of youth bear license refunds; authorizing the development of proposals for large scale water retention projects; authorizing the wild turkey design option when critical habitat license plates are offered; requiring the commissioners of agriculture, natural resources and the pollution control agency (PCA) to submit a base budget report by a certain date; requiring the pollution control agency (PCA) commissioner to adopt expedited rules to eliminate the need for existing campgrounds and resorts to estimate wastewater flow rates to subsurface sewage treatment systems and to adopt expedited rules to create a procedure for septic system professionals to apply for certification eligibility; specifying rule requirements; authorizing soil and water conservation districts to grant conditional compliance waivers to certain landowners; providing for certain transfers to the natural resources conservation easement stewardship account and the water and soil conservation easement stewardship account; providing for revisor instruction; repealing auxiliary forests taxation, application, contract, restriction, special taxes and placement by purchaser provisions; repealing the forests for the future conservation easement account, certain decal provisions relating to the aquatic invasive species prevention program, certain functions of the pollution control agency (PCA) and certain soil erosion and clean water fund provisions

ARTICLE 5 - GAME AND FISH

Relating to natural resources; clarifying land condemnation limits and owner rights; allowing gizzard shad bait harvest from certain infested waters; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources to adopt temporary water surface control for recreational uses at certain public construction and maintenance sites; modifying certain personal watercraft requirements; modifying the definition of and undressed bird; allowing posting restrictions on public access to active disease areas; clarifying compliance with federal law for information or telecommunications technology projects appropriations and assets; modifying and conforming certain enforcement provisions; modifying provisions to take, possess, and transport wild animals; modifying separate selection of eligible turkey licensees; allowing residents of veterans homes to take antlerless deer without a permit; prohibiting certain feral swine activities and imposing penalties; allowing scopes on muzzleloading firearms for persons over the age of 60; modifying penalty for certain firearms possession restricted in deer zones; requiring the collection of hunter information relating to hunter satisfaction; providing an exception for shining lights for tracking bears; allowing use of radio equipment to take unprotected animals; allowing residents age 84 or over to take deer of either sex; ; including all game bird species for the use of nonlethal hazing for property damage; allowing possession of firearms in turkey hunting under certain conditions; establishing restrictions on taking beaver; expanding commissioner authority for seasonal adjustments for state managed waters of Upper Red Lake; modifying minnow healers and helpers provisions; modifying rulemaking for lifting spearing bans and northern pike regulations; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources to amend rules relating to water surface use restrictions and personal flotation devices; authorizing the environmental quality board to make rules relating to recreational trails without preparing a mandatory environmental assessment worksheet; repealing the muskrat farm license fee and certain spearing restrictions
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