Session Year 2011, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0006

Relating to state government; appropriating money from the outdoor heritage
fund, clean water fund, parks and trails fund, and arts and cultural heritage
fund; modifying certain outdoor heritage provisions; establishing accounts;
creating state recreation area; modifying restoration evaluations; modifying
grant programs; modifying accountability requirements; modifying definitions;
modifying the Clean Water Legacy Act; modifying clean water council;
establishing state capitol preservation commission; providing for capitol
building powers and duties; providing appointments; modifying reporting and
other requirements for legacy fund recipients; modifying previous
appropriations; and requiring reports

ARTICLE 1 - OUTDOOR HERITAGE
FUND

Appropriating money from the outdoor heritage fund for certain purposes
and making appropriations adjustment for certain previous appropriations;
specifying funding requirements for prairies, forests, wetlands, habitat,
administration; providing for availability of appropriation, accomplishment
plans, project requirements, payment conditions and capital equipment
expenditures, purchase of recycled and recyclable materials, accessibility, land
acquisition restrictions and real property interest reporting, easement
monitoring enforcement requirements, and successor organizations continuing the
project; defining certain terms; modifying the Lessard-Sams outdoor heritage
council members terms, recommendations, audit, public domain lands, and
restoration evaluation provisions; modifying certain forest appropriations;
establishing a forests for the future conservation easement account; providing
an effective date in relationship to other appropriations

ARTICLE 2 - CLEAN
WATER FUND

Appropriating money from the clean water fund for certain clean
water legacy activities for the agriculture department, public facilities
authority, pollution control agency (PCA), natural resources department (DNR),
board of water and soil resources (BWSR), health department, the metropolitan
council, and the legislative coordinating commission (LCC); authorizing
carryforwards from certain prior appropriations; modifying the clean water
legacy act; modifying certain duties and membership requirements of the clean
water council; making optional BWSR technical evaluation panel convention;
modifying beneficial use of the wastewater capital grant program to include use
of storm water; providing clean water fund 2009 appropriation adjustments;
requiring fund recipients to incorporate civic engagement and public education;
repealing the clean water
legacy account; providing an effective date in
relationship to other appropriations

ARTICLE 3 - PARKS AND TRAILS FUND
APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the department of natural resources
(DNR), the metropolitan council and the legislative coordinating commission
(LCC); establishing the LaSalle Lake state recreation area in Hubbard county,
recreation area management options legislative report requirement; and providing
an effective date in relationship to other appropriations

ARTICLE 4 - ARTS
AND CULTURAL HERITAGE FUND

Appropriating money from the arts and cultural
heritage fund to the Minnesota state arts board, department of education, to the
Minnesota historical society, to the department of administration, to the
Minnesota zoological garden, to the Minnesota humanities center, to the Perpich
center for arts education, to the department of agriculture, to the Indian
affairs council, and the legislative coordinating commission (LCC);
establishing a state capitol preservation commission, specifying certain capitol
building powers and duties and certain state capitol preservation commission
appointments and first meeting requirements; modifying fund use conditions and
reporting requirements for public television and public radio stations;
providing an effective date in relationship to other appropriations

ARTICLE 5
- GENERAL PROVISIONS; ALL LEGACY FUNDS

Modifying certain legislative
coordinating commission (LCC) constitutionally dedicated funding accountability
requirements; specifying certain outdoor heritage fund recipient requirements;
modifying the parks and trails fund, the clean water fund, and the arts and
cultural heritage fund expenditures accountability requirements; specifying
certain legacy fund applicability requirements for grants, funding, trusts and
similar instruments general provisions, lawsuit events, and department of
management and budget legacy accounting technical assistance; providing an
effective date in relationship to other appropriations
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