SF 438

1st Engrossment - 85th Legislature (2007 - 2008) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to natural resources; modifying sales authority; creating an account;
extending expiration of sustainable forest resources provisions; modifying
restrictions on vehicles hauling unfinished forest products; modifying timber
sales on tax-forfeited lands; modifying apportionment of net income; defining
wood products industry; modifying certain tax exemptions; appropriating money;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, sections 84.025, subdivision 9; 84.026,
subdivision 1; 84.0855, subdivisions 1, 2; 89A.11; 169.8261; 282.04, subdivision
1; 290.191, subdivision 2; 297A.68, subdivision 5; 297A.69, subdivision 3;
proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 89.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 84.025, subdivision 9, is amended to read:

Subd. 9.

Professional services support account.

The commissioner of natural
resources may bill the various programs carried out by the commissioner for the costs of
providing them with professional support services. new text begin Except as provided under section
89.421, new text end receipts must be credited to a special account in the state treasury and are
appropriated to the commissioner to pay the costs for which the billings were made.

The commissioner of natural resources shall submit to the commissioner of finance
before the start of each fiscal year a work plan showing the estimated work to be done
during the coming year, the estimated cost of doing the work, and the positions and fees
that will be necessary. This account is exempted from statewide and agency indirect
cost payments.

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 84.026, subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Contracts.

The commissioner of natural resources is authorized
to enter into contractual agreements with any public or private entity for the provision
of statutorily prescribed natural resources services by the department. The contracts
shall specify the services to be provided. new text begin Except as provided under section 89.421, new text end funds
generated in a contractual agreement made pursuant to this section shall be deposited in
the special revenue fund and are appropriated to the department for purposes of providing
the services specified in the contracts. The commissioner shall report revenues collected
and expenditures made under this subdivision to the chairs of the Committees on Ways and
Means in the house and Finance in the senate by January 1 of each odd-numbered year.

Sec. 3.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 84.0855, subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Sales authorized; gift certificates.

The commissioner may
sell natural resources-related publications and maps; new text begin forest resource assessment
products; new text end federal migratory waterfowl, junior duck, and other federal stamps; and other
nature-related merchandise, and may rent or sell items for the convenience of persons using
Department of Natural Resources facilities or services. The commissioner may sell gift
certificates for any items rented or sold. Notwithstanding section 16A.1285, a fee charged
by the commissioner under this section may include a reasonable amount in excess of the
actual cost to support Department of Natural Resources programs. The commissioner may
advertise the availability of a program or item offered under this section.

Sec. 4.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 84.0855, subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2.

Receipts; appropriation.

new text begin Except as provided under section 89.421,
new text end money received by the commissioner under this section or to buy supplies for the use of
volunteers, may be credited to one or more special accounts in the state treasury and is
appropriated to the commissioner for the purposes for which the money was received.
Money received from sales at the state fair shall be available for state fair related costs.
Money received from sales of intellectual property and software products or services shall
be available for development, maintenance, and support of software products and systems.

Sec. 5.

new text begin [89.421] FOREST RESOURCE ASSESSMENT PRODUCTS AND
SERVICES ACCOUNT.
new text end

new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Creation. new text end

new text begin The forest resource assessment products and services
account is created in the state treasury in the natural resources fund.
new text end

new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Receipts. new text end

new text begin Money received from forest resource assessment product sales
and services provided by the commissioner under sections 84.025, subdivision 9; 84.026;
and 84.0855 shall be credited to the forest resource assessment products and services
account. Forest resource assessment products and services include the sale of aerial
photography, remote sensing, and satellite imagery products and services.
new text end

new text begin Subd. 3. new text end

new text begin Use of money in account. new text end

new text begin Money credited to the forest resource
assessment products and services account under subdivision 2 is annually appropriated to
the commissioner and shall be used to maintain the staff and facilities producing the aerial
photography, remote sensing, and satellite imagery products and services.
new text end

Sec. 6.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 89A.11, is amended to read:

89A.11 REPEALER.

Sections 89A.01; 89A.02; 89A.03; 89A.04; 89A.05; 89A.06; 89A.07; 89A.08;
89A.09; 89A.10; and 89A.11 are repealed June 30, deleted text begin 2007 deleted text end new text begin 2017 new text end .

Sec. 7.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 169.8261, is amended to read:

169.8261 GROSS WEIGHT LIMITATIONS; FOREST PRODUCTS.

(a) A vehicle or combination of vehicles hauling raw or unfinished forest products,
including wood chips, new text begin paper, pulp, oriented strandboard, laminated strand lumber,
hardboard, treated lumber, untreated lumber, or barrel staves, new text end by the most direct route to the
nearest highway that has been designated under section 169.832, subdivision 11, may be
operated on any highway with gross weights permitted under sections 169.822 to 169.829
without regard to load restrictions imposed on that highway, except that the vehicles must:

(1) comply with seasonal load restrictions in effect between the dates set by the
commissioner under section 169.87, subdivision 2;

(2) comply with bridge load limits posted under section 169.84;

(3) be equipped and operated with six axles and brakes;

(4) not exceed 90,000 pounds gross weight, or 98,000 pounds gross weight during
the time when seasonal increases are authorized under section 169.826;

(5) not be operated on interstate and defense highways;

(6) obtain an annual permit from the commissioner of transportation;

(7) obey all road postings; and

(8) not exceed 20,000 pounds gross weight on any single axle.

(b) A vehicle operated under this section may exceed the legal axle weight limits
listed in section 169.824 by not more than 12.5 percent; except that, the weight limits may
be exceeded by not more than 22.5 percent during the time when seasonal increases are
authorized under section 169.826, subdivision 1.

Sec. 8.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 282.04, subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Timber sales; land leases and uses.

(a) The county auditor may
sell timber upon any tract that may be approved by the natural resources commissioner.
The sale of timber shall be made for cash at not less than the appraised value determined
by the county board to the highest bidder after not less than one week's published notice
in an official paper within the county. Any timber offered at the public sale and not sold
may thereafter be sold at private sale by the county auditor at not less than the appraised
value thereof, until the time as the county board may withdraw the timber from sale. The
appraised value of the timber and the forestry practices to be followed in the cutting of
said timber shall be approved by the commissioner of natural resources.

(b) Payment of the full sale price of all timber sold on tax-forfeited lands shall be
made in cash at the time of the timber sale, except in the case of oral or sealed bid auction
sales, the down payment shall be no less than 15 percent of the appraised value, and the
balance shall be paid prior to entry. In the case of auction sales that are partitioned and
sold as a single sale with predetermined cutting blocks, the down payment shall be no less
than 15 percent of the appraised price of the entire timber sale which may be held until the
satisfactory completion of the sale or applied in whole or in part to the final cutting block.
The value of each separate block must be paid in full before any cutting may begin in that
block. With the permission of the county contract administrator the purchaser may enter
unpaid blocks and cut necessary timber incidental to developing logging roads as may
be needed to log other blocks provided that no timber may be removed from an unpaid
block until separately scaled and paid for. If payment is provided as specified in this
paragraph as security under paragraph (a) and no cutting has taken place on the contract,
the county auditor may credit the security provided, less any down payment required for
an auction sale under this paragraph, to any other contract issued to the contract holder
by the county under this chapter to which the contract holder requests in writing that it
be credited, provided the request and transfer is made within the same calendar year as
the security was received.

(c) The county board may deleted text begin require final settlement on the basis of a scale of cut
products deleted text end new text begin sell any timber, including biomass, as appraised or scaled, at its discretion new text end .
Any parcels of land from which timber is to be sold by scale of cut products shall be so
designated in the published notice of sale under paragraph (a), in which case the notice
shall contain a description of the parcels, a statement of the estimated quantity of each
species of timber, and the appraised price of each species of timber for 1,000 feet, per cord
or per piece, as the case may be. In those cases any bids offered over and above the
appraised prices shall be by percentage, the percent bid to be added to the appraised price
of each of the different species of timber advertised on the land. The purchaser of timber
from the parcels shall pay in cash at the time of sale at the rate bid for all of the timber
shown in the notice of sale as estimated to be standing on the land, and in addition shall
pay at the same rate for any additional amounts which the final scale shows to have been
cut or was available for cutting on the land at the time of sale under the terms of the sale.
Where the final scale of cut products shows that less timber was cut or was available
for cutting under terms of the sale than was originally paid for, the excess payment
shall be refunded from the forfeited tax sale fund upon the claim of the purchaser, to be
audited and allowed by the county board as in case of other claims against the county. No
timber, except hardwood pulpwood, may be removed from the parcels of land or other
designated landings until scaled by a person or persons designated by the county board
and approved by the commissioner of natural resources. Landings other than the parcel
of land from which timber is cut may be designated for scaling by the county board by
written agreement with the purchaser of the timber. The county board may, by written
agreement with the purchaser and with a consumer designated by the purchaser when the
timber is sold by the county auditor, and with the approval of the commissioner of natural
resources, accept the consumer's scale of cut products delivered at the consumer's landing.
No timber shall be removed until fully paid for in cash. Small amounts of timber not
exceeding $3,000 in appraised valuation may be sold for not less than the full appraised
value at private sale to individual persons without first publishing notice of sale or calling
for bids, provided that in case of a sale involving a total appraised value of more than $200
the sale shall be made subject to final settlement on the basis of a scale of cut products in
the manner above provided and not more than two of the sales, directly or indirectly to any
individual shall be in effect at one time.

(d) As directed by the county board, the county auditor may lease tax-forfeited land
to individuals, corporations or organized subdivisions of the state at public or private sale,
and at the prices and under the terms as the county board may prescribe, for use as cottage
and camp sites and for agricultural purposes and for the purpose of taking and removing of
hay, stumpage, sand, gravel, clay, rock, marl, and black dirt from the land, and for garden
sites and other temporary uses provided that no leases shall be for a period to exceed ten
years; provided, further that any leases involving a consideration of more than $12,000 per
year, except to an organized subdivision of the state shall first be offered at public sale in
the manner provided herein for sale of timber. Upon the sale of any leased land, it shall
remain subject to the lease for not to exceed one year from the beginning of the term of the
lease. Any rent paid by the lessee for the portion of the term cut off by the cancellation
shall be refunded from the forfeited tax sale fund upon the claim of the lessee, to be
audited and allowed by the county board as in case of other claims against the county.

(e) As directed by the county board, the county auditor may lease tax-forfeited land
to individuals, corporations, or organized subdivisions of the state at public or private sale,
at the prices and under the terms as the county board may prescribe, for the purpose
of taking and removing for use for road construction and other purposes tax-forfeited
stockpiled iron-bearing material. The county auditor must determine that the material is
needed and suitable for use in the construction or maintenance of a road, tailings basin,
settling basin, dike, dam, bank fill, or other works on public or private property, and
that the use would be in the best interests of the public. No lease shall exceed ten years.
The use of a stockpile for these purposes must first be approved by the commissioner of
natural resources. The request shall be deemed approved unless the requesting county
is notified to the contrary by the commissioner of natural resources within six months
after receipt of a request for approval for use of a stockpile. Once use of a stockpile has
been approved, the county may continue to lease it for these purposes until approval is
withdrawn by the commissioner of natural resources.

(f) The county auditor, with the approval of the county board is authorized to grant
permits, licenses, and leases to tax-forfeited lands for the depositing of stripping, lean
ores, tailings, or waste products from mines or ore milling plants, upon the conditions and
for the consideration and for the period of time, not exceeding 15 years, as the county
board may determine. The permits, licenses, or leases are subject to approval by the
commissioner of natural resources.

(g) Any person who removes any timber from tax-forfeited land before said
timber has been scaled and fully paid for as provided in this subdivision is guilty of a
misdemeanor.

(h) The county auditor may, with the approval of the county board, and without first
offering at public sale, grant leases, for a term not exceeding 25 years, for the removal
of peat and for the production or removal of farm-grown closed-loop biomass as defined
in section 216B.2424, subdivision 1, or short-rotation woody crops from tax-forfeited
lands upon the terms and conditions as the county board may prescribe. Any lease for
the removal of peat, farm-grown closed-loop biomass, or short-rotation woody crops
from tax-forfeited lands must first be reviewed and approved by the commissioner of
natural resources if the lease covers 320 or more acres. No lease for the removal of
peat, farm-grown closed-loop biomass, or short-rotation woody crops shall be made by
the county auditor pursuant to this section without first holding a public hearing on the
auditor's intention to lease. One printed notice in a legal newspaper in the county at least
ten days before the hearing, and posted notice in the courthouse at least 20 days before
the hearing shall be given of the hearing.

(i) Notwithstanding any provision of paragraph (c) to the contrary, the St. Louis
County auditor may, at the discretion of the county board, sell timber to the party who
bids the highest price for all the several kinds of timber, as provided for sales by the
commissioner of natural resources under section 90.14. Bids offered over and above the
appraised price need not be applied proportionately to the appraised price of each of
the different species of timber.

(j) In lieu of any payment or deposit required in paragraph (b), as directed by the
county board and under terms set by the county board, the county auditor may accept an
irrevocable bank letter of credit in the amount equal to the amount otherwise determined
in paragraph (b). If an irrevocable bank letter of credit is provided under this paragraph,
at the written request of the purchaser, the county may periodically allow the bank letter
of credit to be reduced by an amount proportionate to the value of timber that has been
harvested and for which the county has received payment. The remaining amount of
the bank letter of credit after a reduction under this paragraph must not be less than 20
percent of the value of the timber purchased. If an irrevocable bank letter of credit or
cash deposit is provided for the down payment required in paragraph (b), and no cutting
of timber has taken place on the contract for which a letter of credit has been provided,
the county may allow the transfer of the letter of credit to any other contract issued to the
contract holder by the county under this chapter to which the contract holder requests in
writing that it be credited.

Sec. 9.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 290.191, subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2.

Apportionment formula of general application.

(a) Except for those
trades or businesses required to use a different formula under subdivision 3 or section
290.36, and for those trades or businesses that receive permission to use some other
method under section 290.20 or under subdivision 4, a trade or business required to
apportion its net income must apportion its income to this state on the basis of the
percentage obtained by taking the sum of:

(1) the percent for the sales factor under paragraph (b) of the percentage which
the sales made within this state in connection with the trade or business during the tax
period are of the total sales wherever made in connection with the trade or business during
the tax period;

(2) the percent for the property factor under paragraph (b) of the percentage which
the total tangible property used by the taxpayer in this state in connection with the trade or
business during the tax period is of the total tangible property, wherever located, used by
the taxpayer in connection with the trade or business during the tax period; and

(3) the percent for the payroll factor under paragraph (b) of the percentage which
the taxpayer's total payrolls paid or incurred in this state or paid in respect to labor
performed in this state in connection with the trade or business during the tax period are
of the taxpayer's total payrolls paid or incurred in connection with the trade or business
during the tax period.

(b) For purposes of paragraph (a) and subdivision 3, the following percentages apply
for the taxable years specified:

Taxable years beginning during calendar year	Sales factor percent	Property factor percent	Payroll factor percent
2007	78	11	11
2008	deleted text begin 81 deleted text end new text begin 85 new text end	deleted text begin 9.5 deleted text end new text begin 7.5 new text end	deleted text begin 9.5 deleted text end new text begin 7.5 new text end
2009	deleted text begin 84 deleted text end new text begin 90 new text end	deleted text begin 8 deleted text end new text begin 5 new text end	deleted text begin 8 deleted text end new text begin 5 new text end
2010	deleted text begin 87 deleted text end new text begin 95 new text end	deleted text begin 6.5 deleted text end new text begin 2.5 new text end	deleted text begin 6.5 deleted text end new text begin 2.5 new text end
2011	deleted text begin 90 deleted text end	deleted text begin 5 deleted text end	deleted text begin 5 deleted text end
deleted text begin 2012 deleted text end	deleted text begin 93 deleted text end	deleted text begin 3.5 deleted text end	deleted text begin 3.5 deleted text end
deleted text begin 2013 deleted text end	deleted text begin 96 deleted text end	deleted text begin 2 deleted text end	deleted text begin 2 deleted text end
deleted text begin 2014 deleted text end and later calendar years	100	0	0

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective for tax years beginning after
December 31, 2006.
new text end

Sec. 10.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 297A.68, subdivision 5, is amended to read:

Subd. 5.

Capital equipment.

(a) Capital equipment is exempt deleted text begin . deleted text end new text begin as follows: new text end

new text begin (1) for sales and purchases of capital equipment by the wood products industry, the
tax is not imposed;
new text end

new text begin (2) for sales and purchases of capital equipment by a small business, the tax is
not imposed. For purposes of this subdivision, "small business" is as defined in section
645.445, subdivision 2; and
new text end

new text begin (3) for all other sales and purchases of capital equipment, new text end the tax must be imposed
and collected as if the rate under section 297A.62, subdivision 1, applied, and then
refunded in the manner provided in section 297A.75.

"Capital equipment" means machinery and equipment purchased or leased, and used
in this state by the purchaser or lessee primarily for manufacturing, fabricating, mining,
or refining tangible personal property to be sold ultimately at retail if the machinery and
equipment are essential to the integrated production process of manufacturing, fabricating,
mining, or refining. Capital equipment also includes machinery and equipment
used primarily to electronically transmit results retrieved by a customer of an online
computerized data retrieval system.

(b) Capital equipment includes, but is not limited to:

(1) machinery and equipment used to operate, control, or regulate the production
equipment;

(2) machinery and equipment used for research and development, design, quality
control, and testing activities;

(3) environmental control devices that are used to maintain conditions such as
temperature, humidity, light, or air pressure when those conditions are essential to and are
part of the production process;

(4) materials and supplies used to construct and install machinery or equipment;

(5) repair and replacement parts, including accessories, whether purchased as spare
parts, repair parts, or as upgrades or modifications to machinery or equipment;

(6) materials used for foundations that support machinery or equipment;

(7) materials used to construct and install special purpose buildings used in the
production process;

(8) ready-mixed concrete equipment in which the ready-mixed concrete is mixed
as part of the delivery process regardless if mounted on a chassis, repair parts for
ready-mixed concrete trucks, and leases of ready-mixed concrete trucks; and

(9) machinery or equipment used for research, development, design, or production
of computer software.

(c) Capital equipment does not include the following:

(1) motor vehicles taxed under chapter 297B;

(2) machinery or equipment used to receive or store raw materials;

(3) building materials, except for materials included in paragraph (b), clauses (6)
and (7);

(4) machinery or equipment used for nonproduction purposes, including, but not
limited to, the following: plant security, fire prevention, first aid, and hospital stations;
support operations or administration; pollution control; and plant cleaning, disposal of
scrap and waste, plant communications, space heating, cooling, lighting, or safety;

(5) farm machinery and aquaculture production equipment as defined by section
297A.61, subdivisions 12 and 13;

(6) machinery or equipment purchased and installed by a contractor as part of an
improvement to real property;

(7) machinery and equipment used by restaurants in the furnishing, preparing, or
serving of prepared foods as defined in section 297A.61, subdivision 31;

(8) machinery and equipment used to furnish the services listed in section 297A.61,
subdivision 3, paragraph (g), clause (6), items (i) to (vi) and (viii);

(9) machinery or equipment used in the transportation, transmission, or distribution
of petroleum, liquefied gas, natural gas, water, or steam, in, by, or through pipes, lines,
tanks, mains, or other means of transporting those products. This clause does not apply to
machinery or equipment used to blend petroleum or biodiesel fuel as defined in section
239.77; or

(10) any other item that is not essential to the integrated process of manufacturing,
fabricating, mining, or refining.

(d) For purposes of this subdivision:

(1) "Equipment" means independent devices or tools separate from machinery but
essential to an integrated production process, including computers and computer software,
used in operating, controlling, or regulating machinery and equipment; and any subunit or
assembly comprising a component of any machinery or accessory or attachment parts of
machinery, such as tools, dies, jigs, patterns, and molds.

(2) "Fabricating" means to make, build, create, produce, or assemble components or
property to work in a new or different manner.

(3) "Integrated production process" means a process or series of operations through
which tangible personal property is manufactured, fabricated, mined, or refined. For
purposes of this clause, (i) manufacturing begins with the removal of raw materials
from inventory and ends when the last process prior to loading for shipment has been
completed; (ii) fabricating begins with the removal from storage or inventory of the
property to be assembled, processed, altered, or modified and ends with the creation
or production of the new or changed product; (iii) mining begins with the removal of
overburden from the site of the ores, minerals, stone, peat deposit, or surface materials and
ends when the last process before stockpiling is completed; and (iv) refining begins with
the removal from inventory or storage of a natural resource and ends with the conversion
of the item to its completed form.

(4) "Machinery" means mechanical, electronic, or electrical devices, including
computers and computer software, that are purchased or constructed to be used for the
activities set forth in paragraph (a), beginning with the removal of raw materials from
inventory through completion of the product, including packaging of the product.

(5) "Machinery and equipment used for pollution control" means machinery and
equipment used solely to eliminate, prevent, or reduce pollution resulting from an activity
described in paragraph (a).

(6) "Manufacturing" means an operation or series of operations where raw materials
are changed in form, composition, or condition by machinery and equipment and which
results in the production of a new article of tangible personal property. For purposes of
this subdivision, "manufacturing" includes the generation of electricity or steam to be
sold at retail.

(7) "Mining" means the extraction of minerals, ores, stone, or peat.

(8) "Online data retrieval system" means a system whose cumulation of information
is equally available and accessible to all its customers.

(9) "Primarily" means machinery and equipment used 50 percent or more of the time
in an activity described in paragraph (a).

(10) "Refining" means the process of converting a natural resource to an intermediate
or finished product, including the treatment of water to be sold at retail.

(11) new text begin "Wood products industry" means:
new text end

new text begin (i) manufacturers of pulp, paper, and paperboard;
new text end

new text begin (ii) sawmills and planing mills;
new text end

new text begin (iii) manufacturers of panelboard, including veneer, plywood, and reconstituted
wood products, such as particleboard, waferboard, and oriented strandboard;
new text end

new text begin (iv) manufacturers of fabricated wood millwork;
new text end

new text begin (v) manufacturers of structural wood members; and
new text end

new text begin (vi) manufacturers of prefabricated wood buildings and components.
new text end

new text begin (12) Wood products industry does not include:
new text end

new text begin (i) logging;
new text end

new text begin (ii) manufacturers of wood cabinets, furniture, office or store fixtures, toys and
playground equipment, caskets, or miscellaneous wood products;
new text end

new text begin (iii) manufacturers of wood containers;
new text end

new text begin (iv) businesses engaged in wood preserving;
new text end

new text begin (v) the operation of timber tracts or tree farms;
new text end

new text begin (vi) forest nurseries and the gathering of forest products; and
new text end

new text begin (vii) forestry services related to timber production.
new text end

new text begin (13) new text end This subdivision does not apply to telecommunications equipment as
provided in subdivision 35, and does not apply to wire, cable, fiber, poles, or conduit
for telecommunications services.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective for sales and purchases made after
June 30, 2007.
new text end

Sec. 11.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 297A.69, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

Subd. 3.

Repair and replacement parts.

Repair and replacement parts, except tires,
used for maintenance or repair of farm machinery, logging equipment, new text begin including skidder
tires, new text end and aquaculture production equipment are exempt, if the part replaces a machinery
part assigned a specific or generic part number by the manufacturer of the machinery.

Sec. 12. new text begin APPROPRIATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.
new text end

new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin General fund appropriations. new text end

new text begin (a) $1,500,000 in fiscal year
2008 and $1,500,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated from the general fund to the
commissioner of natural resources to support additional technical and cost-share assistance
to nonindustrial private forest landowners.
new text end

new text begin (b) $780,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $780,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated
from the general fund to the commissioner of natural resources for implementation of the
Sustainable Forest Resources Act in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 89A.
new text end

new text begin (c) $200,000 in fiscal year 2008 is appropriated from the general fund to the
Minnesota Forest Resources Council under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 89A, to review
and provide recommendations to the legislature and the governor on policies to maintain
the productive forest land base.
new text end

new text begin (d) $200,000 in fiscal year 2008 is appropriated from the general fund to the
Minnesota Forest Resources Council under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 89A, for the
Forest Resources Research Advisory Committee under Minnesota Statutes, section
89A.08, to conduct research on topics recommended by the governor's task force on the
competitiveness of Minnesota's primary forest products industry.
new text end

new text begin (e) $480,000 in fiscal year 2008 is appropriated from the general fund to the
Forest Resources Interagency Information Cooperative under Minnesota Statutes,
section 89A.09, to implement technical assistance, technology development, and transfer
programs as recommended by the governor's task force on the competitiveness of
Minnesota's primary forest products industry.
new text end

new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Forest management investment account appropriations. new text end

new text begin (a) $3,167,000
in fiscal year 2008 and $3,167,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated from the forest
management investment account to the commissioner of natural resources to cover the
costs attributable to generating revenue to the forest management investment account.
new text end

new text begin (b) $750,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $750,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated
from the forest management investment account to the commissioner of natural resources
to hire additional field foresters to work on timber sales.
new text end

new text begin (c) $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated
from the forest management investment account to the commissioner of natural resources
for forest improvement efforts, including precommercial and noncommercial thinning
and seedling protection.
new text end

new text begin (d) $1,100,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $1,100,000 in fiscal year 2009 are
appropriated from the forest management investment account to the commissioner of
natural resources for forest road maintenance.
new text end

new text begin (e) $400,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $400,000 in fiscal year 2009 are appropriated
from the forest management investment account to the commissioner of natural resources
to accelerate the continual reinventory of state-administered forest lands.
new text end