Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1830

2E Relating to environment, natural resources, and game and fish

ARTICLE 1 -
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Authorizing certain department of administration
payments; requiring game and fish licenses to be available by electronic
transaction; providing for apprentice riders; modifying local government trail
authority and enforcement provisions; providing for an appropriation to and
continued operation of state parks and recreation areas and the Minnesota
zoological garden when biennial appropriations have not been enacted; modifying
aquatic invasive species provisions and establishing the aquatic invasive
species prevention program; modifying certain bait provisions, certain reporting
and assessment requirements, and board of water and soil resources (BWSR) voting
membership, orders, bylaws, dispute committee membership, and local water
management functions; allowing comprehensive watershed management plan, water
plan extensions, and restoration; modifying the wetland conservation act;
allowing BWSR to adopt or amend rules establishing a program for regulating
dredged and fill material discharge into waters; clarifying certain
environmental review; eliminating certain fees; expanding the solid waste
definition; modifying certain standards for stationary sources; extending
prohibition on new open air swine basins; modifying acid deposition control
requirements and sewage sludge management; providing for alternative local
standards for subsurface sewage treatment systems; authorizing wood by-product
grants; authorizing the discontinuance of the Hennepin conservation district and
authorizing the transfer of duties; extending certain environment and natural
resources trust fund appropriations; requiring a forest resources council study
and a metropolitan waste disposal restrictions report; repealing certain natural
resources, water pollution, packaging toxics, and emissions-reduction attainment
reports, the nursery and tree improvement plan, and the stream protection and
improvement loan program

ARTICLE 2 - GAME AND FISH

Relating to natural
resources; revising the department of natural resources
(DNR) mission; allowing
harvest from infested waters for certain fish; modifying bear stand
requirements; allowing anterless deer taking without lottery application;
restricting firing of firearms near livestock; exempting military personnel and
veterans from the firearms safety certificate requirement; allowing scopes on
muzzleloaders; exempting venison donations from food laws and requiring
labeling; modifying beaver removal procedure; regulating body-gripping traps;
authorizing the commissioner to make winter trout seasons and requiring
rulemaking; providing for taking wolf, requiring a wolf hunting or wolf trapping
license; modifying requirements to take and transport wild animals; modifying
restrictions on discharging firearms and bows; authorizing the use of mechanical
or electronic assistance to hold and discharge firearms or bows by physically
disabled; modifying predator control program; modifying deer baiting
restrictions; requiring rulemaking for restitution value for wolves and use of
snares; repealing certain provisions relating to hunting and fishing
license
reciprocity with Wisconsin, collection of deer and elk in bovine
tuberculosis
zone, fish and turtles from rough fish removal dedication of
receipts, waterfowl hunting on Muskrat Lake, gray wolf hunting penalties, youth
deer license issuance, fishing regulations executive order authority, gray
wolves snaring permit requirement, lakes with unbalanced fish populations;
appropriating money

ARTICLE 3 - GAME AND FISH LICENSE FEES

Relating to
game and fish; increasing certain game and fish license fees;
modifying certain
hunting and fishing requirements; establishing a walk-in
access program to
provide public access to wildlife habitat on private land for hunting; requiring
a walk-in access hunter validation fee; requiring the
commissioner of
management and budget (MMB) to transfer money from the game and fish fund to the
invasive species account; appropriating money; repealing certain provisions
related to license requirements and exemptions relating to age and a certain
provision relating to the conservation angling license
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