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Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: HF0976

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.