Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3056

3E Relating to natural resources; modifying permanent school fund provisions;
requiring the commissioner of finance to biennially report to the permanent
school fund advisory committee and the legislature on the management of the
permanent school trust fund; expanding the authority of the commissioner of
natural resources (DNR) relating to managing certain school trust fund lands,
specifying certain duties and reporting requirements; appropriating
administrative sites sale proceeds to the commissioner to acquire facilities,
renovate buildings or acquire land for administrative use; modifying certain
requirements for environmental learning centers; creating the Minnesota forests
for the future program to identify and protect private working forest lands,
defining certain terms, providing for land eligibility, authorizing commissioner
of natural resources to acquire permanent interests in lands by fee title,
easement acquisition, gift or donation, specifying an application process,
providing for the correction and termination of easements under certain
conditions; providing for payments to landowners, requiring the commissioner to
establish a monitoring and enforcement program for future easements;
establishing a forests for the future revolving account in the natural resources
fund and appropriating money to the DNR for forest lands acquisition; extending
the snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) temporary
permit duration, providing a uniform expiration date for snowmobile
registrations and trail stickers, modifying snowmobile temporary permit data
requirements, modifying certain provisions for youth operation of all-terrain
vehicles (ATVs); changing certain references from recreation reserves to state
recreation areas, changing the name of Interstate park to Interstate state park
and the name of St. Croix Wild River state park to Wild River state park,
modifying monument designation authority, requiring the issuance of free special
lifetime state park permits for totally and permanently disabled veterans,
eliminating the need for a state park permit in a certain area of Grand Portage
state park; extending the watercraft temporary permit duration; expanding
certain responsibilities for campfire safety to include persons maintaining
campfires; modifying requirements for alternative recording of state forest
roads, specifying appeals process of property owners affected by the recording;
providing for disposition of proceeds from the sale of administrative sites to
be credited to the facilities management account for acquisition and renovation;
providing for expedited exchanges of public land involving the state and
governmental subdivisions of the state, specifying classes of land involved in
expedited exchanges, providing for the determination of the valuation of land,
requiring examination of title by involved parties, requiring unanimous approval
of the land exchange board, providing for the conveyance process, requiring
deeds to include a reverter under certain conditions, specifying status for
certain classes of land; modifying the names and duties of certain subcommittees
appointed to review game and fish annual reports; modifying the authority of the
commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for public water access site
acquisition; providing wetland bank credit under certain conditions for state
held conservation easements; establishing regulation of ballast water discharge
into Lake Superior by oceangoing vessels, defining certain terms, requiring
operators of a vessel to conduct ballast water management operations according
to a ballast water management plan designed to minimize the discharge of
invasive species, specifying certain approval and recordkeeping requirements,
specifying certain consultation and cooperation requirements with the Great
Lakes panel on aquatic nuisance species, state agencies and Canada and other
foreign governments; modifying individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) service
professionals licensing requirements; removing source separated compostable
materials from mixed municipal solid waste inclusion and requiring composting or
transfer to a composting facility; modifying requirements and restricting
issuance of air emission permits to new facilities in certain cities in Hennepin
county by the pollution control agency (PCA); modifying certain exemptions
relating to petroleum storage; requiring the owner of a petroleum tank to
provide information on receptor surveys for a petroleum tank release; modifying
certain duties of the permanent school fund advisory committee, requiring a
report to the legislature by a certain date, specifying the permanency of the
advisory committee; modifying toxic chemical release reporting requirements and
returning toxic reporting to previous threshold levels; authorizing Itasca
county to grant an easement for a certain number of years of the tax-forfeited
land to the Itasca county regional rail authority; appropriating money to the
commissioner for a onetime grant to the city of Little Falls for the Pine Grove
zoo and the city of Duluth for the Lake Superior zoo for accreditation purposes;
repealing the position of prairie biologist at the department of natural
resources, a reference to the Rush River state wayside in Sibley county, the
state park permit exemption for Interstate park, limitations of access to
certain public water access sites and certain undercover finance report
requirements
(Ch. 357, 2008)