SF 2421

as introduced - 79th Legislature (1995 - 1996) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to governmental operations; providing that 
  1.3             the department of natural resources is responsible for 
  1.4             administration of the Mississippi river critical area; 
  1.5             transferring certain responsibilities of the amateur 
  1.6             sports commission to the department of natural 
  1.7             resources; appropriating money; amending Minnesota 
  1.8             Statutes 1995 Supplement, section 116G.15. 
  1.9   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.10     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section 
  1.11  116G.15, is amended to read: 
  1.12     116G.15 [MISSISSIPPI RIVER CRITICAL AREA.] 
  1.13     (a) The federal Mississippi National River and Recreation 
  1.14  Area established pursuant to United States Code, title 16, 
  1.15  section 460zz-2(k), is designated an area of critical concern in 
  1.16  accordance with this chapter.  The governor shall review the 
  1.17  existing Mississippi river critical area plan and specify any 
  1.18  additional standards and guidelines to affected communities in 
  1.19  accordance with section 116G.06, subdivision 2, paragraph (b), 
  1.20  clauses (3) and (4), needed to insure preservation of the area 
  1.21  pending the completion of the federal plan.  The department of 
  1.22  natural resources rather than the board shall administer the 
  1.23  area under this chapter. 
  1.24     The results of an environmental impact statement prepared 
  1.25  under chapter 116D begun before and completed after July 1, 
  1.26  1994, for a proposed project that is located in the Mississippi 
  1.27  river critical area north of the United States Army Corps of 
  2.1   Engineers Lock and Dam Number One must be submitted in a report 
  2.2   to the chairs of the environment and natural resources policy 
  2.3   and finance committees of the house of representatives and the 
  2.4   senate prior to the issuance of any state or local permits and 
  2.5   the authorization for an issuance of any bonds for the project.  
  2.6   A report made under this paragraph shall be submitted by the 
  2.7   responsible governmental unit that prepared the environmental 
  2.8   impact statement, and must list alternatives to the project that 
  2.9   are determined by the environmental impact statement to be 
  2.10  economically less expensive and environmentally superior to the 
  2.11  proposed project and identify any legislative actions that may 
  2.12  assist in the implementation of environmentally superior 
  2.13  alternatives.  This paragraph does not apply to a proposed 
  2.14  project to be carried out by the metropolitan council or a 
  2.15  metropolitan agency as defined in section 473.121. 
  2.16     (b) If the results of an environmental impact statement 
  2.17  required to be submitted by paragraph (a) indicate that there is 
  2.18  an economically less expensive and environmentally superior 
  2.19  alternative, then no member agency of the environmental quality 
  2.20  board shall issue a permit for the facility that is the subject 
  2.21  of the environmental impact statement, other than an 
  2.22  economically less expensive and environmentally superior 
  2.23  alternative, nor shall any government bonds be issued for the 
  2.24  facility, other than an economically less expensive and 
  2.25  environmentally superior alternative, until after the 
  2.26  legislature has adjourned its regular session sine die in 1996. 
  2.27     Sec. 2.  [TRANSFER OF DUTIES AND APPROPRIATIONS.] 
  2.28     As provided by department of administration reorganization 
  2.29  order no. 172, the duties and appropriations of the amateur 
  2.30  sports commission for the construction of an indoor national 
  2.31  shooting sports center under Laws 1994, chapter 643, section 4, 
  2.32  subdivision 4, are transferred to the department of natural 
  2.33  resources.  
  2.34     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.35     Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 
  2.36  enactment.