2005 Minnesota Statutes

     116P.03 Trust fund not to supplant existing funding. 

    (a) The trust fund may not be used as a substitute for 
 traditional sources of funding environmental and natural 
 resources activities, but the trust fund shall supplement the 
 traditional sources, including those sources used to support the 
 criteria in section 116P.08, subdivision 1.  The trust fund must 
 be used primarily to support activities whose benefits become 
 available only over an extended period of time. 

    (b) The commission must determine the amount of the state 
 budget spent from traditional sources to fund environmental and 
 natural resources activities before and after the trust fund is 
 established and include a comparison of the amount in the report 
 under section 116P.09, subdivision 7. 

    HIST: 1988 c 690 art 1 s 7