Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                        CHAPTER 182-H.F.No. 343 
           An act relating to collection and dissemination of 
          data; defining certain mineral data supplied to the 
          commissioner of natural resources as nonpublic data; 
          proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
          chapter 13. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
     Section 1.  [13.793] [NATURAL RESOURCES MINERAL DATA.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [NONPUBLIC DATA.] Except as provided in 
subdivision 2, the following data received and maintained by the 
commissioner of natural resources are nonpublic data: 
    (1) a letter or other documentation from a person that is 
supplied to the commissioner before a public lease sale of 
metallic or other minerals for the purpose of making suggestions 
or recommendations about which state lands may be offered for 
public lease sale; or 
    (2) a written report or other documentation of private 
analyses of a state-owned or controlled drill core that is 
public data and is under the custody of the commissioner. 
    Subd. 2.  [DATA BECOME PUBLIC.] Data under subdivision 1, 
clause (1), become public data three years after the date the 
lease sale was held or, if not held, within three years after 
the date the lease sale was scheduled to be held.  Data under 
subdivision 1, clause (2), become public data 90 days after 
receipt by the commissioner. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    This act is effective July 1, 1989. 
    Presented to the governor May 16, 1989 
    Signed by the governor May 19, 1989, 4:15 p.m.