Legislative Session number- 89

Bill Name: SF1537

Defining riparian buffers; establishing a state policy to protect and establish
buffers; requiring buffers of perennially rooted vegetation adjacent to all
perennial waters and specifying size; requiring the commissioner of natural
resources (DNR) to establish and maintain a county inventory map, allowing
alternative practices and exemptions, requiring soil and water conservation
districts local implementation, allowing DNR penalty orders and soil and water
conservation districts funds withholding, and financial assistance; requiring
soil and water conservation district granting of conditional compliance waivers
to certain landowners
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