SF 1773

1st Engrossment - 86th Legislature (2009 - 2010) Posted on 02/09/2010 02:23am

A bill for an act
relating to the environment; allowing counties to make an abbreviated report in
2010; requiring a report to the legislature.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin SCORE REPORTING.
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new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin 2010 requirement. new text end

new text begin The requirements for the report specified in
Minnesota Statutes, section 115A.557, subdivision 3, paragraph (b), clause (2), that is due
April 1, 2010, shall be abbreviated in scope. The information collected shall be sufficient
for the commissioner to determine that counties have complied with the requirements
of this subdivision.
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new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Recommendations; report. new text end

new text begin The commissioner of the Pollution Control
Agency, in consultation with the Association of Minnesota Counties, the Solid Waste
Administrators Association, the Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board, and other
interested parties shall make recommendations to amend the reporting requirements under
Minnesota Statutes, section 115A.557, subdivision 3, in ways that reduce the resources
counties employ to collect the data reported, while insuring that estimation methods used
to report data are consistent across counties and that the data reported is accurate and
useful as a guide to solid waste management policy makers. The commissioner shall also
make recommendations regarding the feasibility and desirability of multicounty reporting
of the data. The commissioner's recommendations must be presented in a report submitted
to the chairs and ranking minority members of the senate and house of representatives
committees and divisions with primary jurisdiction over solid waste policy and finance
no later than December 15, 2009.
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