2000 Minnesota Statutes

     103F.461 Groundwater education. 

    (a) In each even-numbered year, the board of water and soil 
 resources must review groundwater education activities with 
 local units of government and develop recommendations for 
 improvement in a report to the environmental quality board for 
 review and then to the house of representatives and senate 
 committees with jurisdiction over the environment, natural 
 resources, and agriculture as part of the groundwater policy 
 report in section 103A.204.  The board must work with agencies 
 and interested groups with responsibility for groundwater 
 education in preparing the report. 

    (b) The board must ensure that the biennial review of 
 groundwater education with local units of government is 
 coordinated with the Minnesota environmental education advisory 
 board and the nonpoint source education and information strategy 
 of the pollution control agency. 

    (c) Grants for innovative groundwater education strategies 
 to local units of government identified in this section may be 
 awarded by the board of water and soil resources. 

    HIST: 1994 c 557 s 14; 1999 c 86 art 3 s 10