Session Year 2001, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0010

E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government,
appropriating money for environment, natural resources and agriculture purposes;
appropriating money to the pollution control agency for the clean water
partnership program, for feedlot permit program county administration grants,
for local and basinwide water quality protection, for individual sewage
treatment system (ISTS) grants and program administration, for implementation of
the Lake Superior lakewide management plan (LaMP), for the small business
environmental improvement loan program, for certain ambient air, water quality
and private water supply monitoring programs, for the leaking underground
storage tank program, for St. Paul empire builder site environmental
contamination remediation compensation grants and for back pay under federal
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime settlements, to the office of
environmental assistance for SCORE grants to counties, for the environmental
assistance revolving account and for mixed municipal solid waste processing
payments, to the zoological board, to the department of natural resources for
iron ore and minerals research, for mineral diversification, for grants or
payments to the Mississippi headwaters board and the Leech Lake band of Chippewa
Indians for implementation of the upper Mississippi comprehensive plan, for
implementation of the Red River mediation agreement and basin flood damage
reduction projects, for construction of ring dikes, for a grant to the Lewis and
Clark joint powers board for the southwestern Minnesota rural water system, for
emergency fire fighting and search and rescue costs, for white pine protection
and regeneration, for the focus on community forests program, for implementation
of the sustainable forest resources act, for development and implementation of a
master logger certification program, for the FORIST timber management
information system, for matching grants to protect native oak forests from oak
wilt, for state and metropolitan regional parks operation and maintenance, for
state park and forest campground operations, for field and regional office
computers replacement, for the Big Bog and Red River state recreation areas, for
grants to the city of St. Paul to restore the east Como Lake trail and lakeshore
in Como park and to the city of Taylors Falls for Interstate park fire and
rescue operations, for snowmobile grants in aid, for the Lake Superior safe
harbor program, for state trail operations, for local trail grants, for the
Minnesota River and Mississippi Whitewater trails, for Knife River harbor of
refuge and marina improvements, for a Red River canoe and boating route
inventory, for fish and wildlife management and enhancement, for the reinvest in
Minnesota (RIM) and nongame wildlife management programs, for milfoil program
grants, for water monitoring activities, for the county biological survey, for
native prairie stewardship expansion, for certain ecological indicators, for
county boat and water safety grants, for solid waste, snowmobile and all-terrain
vehicle enforcement activities and the ATV environmental and safety education
and training program, for protected class employee recruitment and retention,
for increased fuel costs, for the hiring of new conservation officers, for
metropolitan area natural areas and greenways development, for regional resource
enhancement grants, for youth programs operations, for grants to the St. Paul
Como zoo and conservatory, to the Duluth zoo and to Cook, Lake and St. Louis
counties for emergency communications equipment, to the board of water and soil
resources for local natural resources block and soil and water conservation and
watershed district grants, for easement and grant programs administrative costs
and for reimbursement to the town of West Newton for construction of the St.
George community wastewater treatment system, to the Minnesota-Wisconsin
boundary area commission, to the science museum, to the commissioner of
agriculture for continuation and expansion of the dairy development and
profitability enhancement grant (dairy diagnostics) program, for ethanol
producer payments, for Minnesota grown promotion, sustainable agriculture
demonstration project, beaver damage control, shippers association and value
added agricultural product processing and marketing grants, for operation of the
Minnesota products and production methods certification program, for development
of a customer profile for identity preserved crops, for trade marketing
specialists contracts, for family farm security interest payment adjustments,
for the northern crops institute, for agriculture information center grants, for
the Duluth seaway port authority, for a grant to the livestock breeders
association, for the farm advocates program and for preparation of a feedlot
environmental impact statement (EIS), to the board of animal health for the
paratuberculosis (Johnes disease) control and avian pneumovirus disease
investigation programs, to the Minnesota horticultural society, to the
agricultural utilization research institute for hybrid tree management research
and development and to the office of strategic and long range planning for a
plan to reorganize state water programs and functions; appropriating money to
the legislative commission on Minnesota resources (LCMR), the DNR, BOWSR, the
university of Minnesota, the Minnesota historical society, the commissioners of
administration and agriculture, the science museum and the Minnesota zoo for
certain natural resources projects, specifying certain data availability,
project, match, recycled and recyclable materials purchase, energy conservation
and accessibility requirements and payment conditions; providing for the
continued availability of certain prior appropriations, for certain
appropriation carryovers and for certain fund transfers; prohibiting the
commissioner of natural resources from abandoning the diversion system at
Currant Lake in Murray county; providing for the distribution of overtime to
conservation officers; authorizing commissioner contracts under the Minnesota
conservation corps program; specifying an ethanol producer total payments limit;
requiring commissioner of agriculture agricultural chemical response and
reimbursement account (ACRRA) fee adjustments; abolishing the Eurasian wild pigs
account; expanding the value added agricultural product processing and marketing
grant program purpose to the formation of marketing cooperatives and eligibility
to family farm corporations, partnerships or limited liability companies;
eliminating the late fee for renewal of expired licenses under the Minnesota
grown logo or labeling program; modifying the Minnesota agricultural products
and production methods certification program certification process, sunset;
defining private contributions for Minnesota grown matching account match
requirement purposes; modifying certain provisions under the agriculture shared
savings loan program, modifying certain loan criteria, increasing loan limits,
eliminating a certain loan priority and providing for funding of farm manure
digester technology demonstration projects; expanding the purposes of
sustainable agriculture demonstration grants and requiring an agricultural
marketing specialist on the technical review panel; modifying certain provisions
under the agriculture best management practices loan program, providing for the
reduction of environmental pollution and for local government unit allocation
and lender agreements with the commissioner; expanding the definition of
agricultural commodity under the agricultural commodities promotion act to
include cultivated wild rice and establishing a cultivated wild rice research
and promotion council; establishing the agriculture laboratory to provide
analytical and technical services to support programs protecting and enhancing
the agriculture, environment and food chain; transferring the waste pesticide
account to the agricultural fund; regulating the application of pesticides on
school property; modifying certain provisions under the agricultural chemical
response and reimbursement law, providing for reimbursement or payment
disapproval determination hearings; requiring the commissioner to establish
schedules to recover the cost of seed testing and identification, requiring the
deposit of money collected in the laboratory services account in the
agricultural fund; increasing wholesale produce dealers registration and license
fees; modifying certain food handlers licensing requirements, providing for
delegation of commissioner retail food handlers licensing and inspection duties
to local boards of health and establishing food handler facility floor plan
review fees and the food handler plan review and reinspection accounts;
increasing the egg handlers annual inspection fee schedule, reducing the egg
storage and transportation temperature requirement and providing for uniformity
with certain updated federal regulations; adopting federal grading and
inspection standards for manufacturing dairy plants and products; increasing the
commercial cannery inspection and services assessment maximum, transferring the
commercial canneries inspection account to the agricultural fund and providing a
standing appropriation from the account to the commissioner for special
inspection, laboratory and other services expenses; eliminating certain spending
authority of the department under the meat and poultry inspection program;
imposing milk procurement and dairy plant approval fees, requiring deposit in
the dairy services account in the agricultural fund and specifying a certain
inspection requirement relating to the finding of certain milk residues;
modifying certain requirements for grade A pasteurized milk and laboratory
certification fees and clarifying the tanker inspection requirement; updating
uniform quality standards for milk used for manufacturing purposes to certain
federal regulations; modifying the grade requirements for butter; modifying the
definitions of selected class dairy products relating to certain federal
regulations; changing the beverage inspection fund to a beverage inspection
account in the agricultural fund; modifying certain provisions relating to the
rural finance authority (RFA), authorizing a state auditor designee to serve on
the authority board, eliminating the debt to asset ratio requirement for
restructured loan eligibility purposes, increasing the authority dollar amount
participation limit for agricultural improvement loans and eliminating the
prohibition on use of the loans to refinance existing debt; expanding the value
added agricultural product loan program to already owned and operated processing
facilities; providing for the disposition and use of natural disaster
reimbursements to the commissioner of natural resources; changing the name of
the youth corps program to the Minnesota conservation corps program, eliminating
the corps to career community service program and extending the expiration date
of the advisory committee; authorizing use of the snowmobile trails and
enforcement account for grants to local law enforcement agencies; setting the
fee for the ATV environmental and safety education and training program,
requiring the commissioner to incorporate a riding component in the program and
modifying certain operation restrictions; providing statutory descriptions for
the Minnesota River and central lakes trails; modifying the crediting of certain
state park fees; authorizing commissioner designation of canoe and boating
routes on the Long Prairie and Red rivers; clarifying the authority of the
commissioner under the Lake Superior safe harbors program; creating a certain
exception to the prohibition on the use of motor vehicles on unsafe ice;
modifying certain provisions relating to decorative forest products; modifying
the deposit of penalties imposed for violation of wildfire regulations;
modifying certain reporting requirements of the forest resources council
relating to activities of regional forest committees; extending the expiration
date of the mineral coordinating committee; clarifying the requirement for the
commissioner to adopt rules governing contests for the selection of game or fish
stamp designs; requiring and providing for the commissioner to appoint certain
game and fish fund citizen oversight subcommittees; imposing a fee for the
mailing of pictorial turkey or trout and salmon stamps and clarifying certain
stamp signature, validation and possession requirements; eliminating the
separate angling license for senior citizens; expanding the definition of
agricultural land under the hunting trespass law; specifying the duration of PCA
permits for major aboveground storage tanks; eliminating the requirement for the
commissioner of the PCA to establish procedures to approve new individual sewage
treatment system technologies and continuing the validity of existing warranties
regardless of the rule repeal; establishing an environmental assistance
revolving account in the environmental fund for deposit of environmental
assistance grant and loan program repayments to be used by the director of the
office of environmental assistance for the grants and loans; extending the time
limit for placement and operation of proposed resource recovery facilities under
solid waste transfer station project grant agreements before recipient
requirement to repay the grant amount to the state; requiring and providing for
director temporary mixed municipal solid waste processing payments to counties;
modifying certain PCA waste tire management authority; extending the drycleaner
environmental and reimbursement account interim fees provision; modifying
certain reimbursement provisions and corrective action performance audit
requirements under the petroleum tank release cleanup program and expanding
sanctions to consultants or contractors failing to supervise employees or
representatives for requirements compliance purposes and the sunset provision;
limiting the duration of PCA hazardous waste generator licenses and expanding
the transportation rule exemption to certain smaller generators; designating the
DNR as the state agency to apply for, accept, receive and disburse federal land
and water conservation fund act funds, providing for local and state shares;
creating a state land and water conservation account in the Minnesota future
resources fund to be used for state land acquisition and development for the
state outdoor recreation system and imposing certain land acquisition
restrictions; increasing grain buyers and warehouse operators license fees;
authorizing the inclusion of natural gasoline in E85 motor fuel under gasoline
and special fuels tax provisions; increasing the total percentage of revenues
from the in lieu sales tax on lottery tickets dedicated to certain natural
resources funds; authorizing metropolitan landfill contingency action fund
expenditures for response costs at certain unpermitted mixed municipal solid
waste disposal facilities; granting certain conservation law enforcement
authority to federally recognized Indian tribes; extending the expiration dates
for the farmer lender mediation act, for certain sustainable forest management
provisions and for the iron range off-highway vehicle recreation area advisory
committee; moving a certain prior appropriation to the DNR to resurface a
certain portion of the Milan trail in Chippewa county; extending the deadline
for a certain university of Minnesota report to the legislature on an inventory
of state owned land in the boundary waters canoe area (BWCA); requiring the
director of the office of strategic and long range planning to develop and
present to the legislature a plan for the reorganization of the state water
programs and functions; temporarily suspending a certain rule restricting the
sale or distribution of biological products and antigens used exclusively for
poultry; requiring the commissioners of administration, transportation (DOT),
natural resources and revenue to work with affected counties to study and
determine the percentage of revenue received from the unrefunded gasoline and
special fuel tax derived from gasoline and special fuel used for the operation
of motor vehicles on state forest roads and county forest access roads and
report by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of natural resources to
acquire land for a small craft harbor on Lake Superior at McQuade road and to
impose a permanent moratorium on the removal of sunken logs from inland waters;
requiring the commissioner of finance to submit to the legislature by a certain
date a report identifying certain accounts in the special revenue fund and
report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of
agriculture to waive the excessive civil fines levied against dairy producers
for certain adulterated dairy products violations occurring between certain
dates and to reimburse the amount waived to dairy producers already paying the
fines; repealing certain statutory provisions relating to the classification of
certain agricultural packer and stockyard data, a requirement for the attorney
general to assign a deputy to act as an adviser to the commissioner of
agriculture, the payment of certain commissioner expenditures by approved
voucher, the requirements for the commissioner to approve state appropriations
to agricultural associations or societies and to certify the trophic state of
waters used for aquatic farming, the memorandum of agreement among state and
federal agencies on inspections of agricultural operations, the prohibition on
the importation of European rabbits, the Minnesota dairy producers board, Market
Champ, Inc. established to transfer high quality swine genetic material from the
university of Minnesota to family farmers, certain swine identification
requirements before slaughter, certain grain inspection requirements,
grasshopper control on public utility easements, commissioner enforcement of
certain formerly repealed chemical compound restrictions, the prohibition on the
sale of linseed oil, the Minnesota paint and varnish law, wood alcohol labeling
requirements, commissioner hay and straw standards regulation, seizure and
confiscation of motor vehicles used in the illegal sale or transport of produce,
the department division of poultry industries, commissioner regulation of the
sale of strawberries and raspberries, certain food handler plan review fees,
frozen food processing plants, standards and grades for honey, packers price and
contract reports, certain dairy industry price discrimination and records
provisions, certain provisions regulating light butter and reduced fat cheese,
the Minnesota filled dairy products act, the definitions of reduced fat, low fat
and nonfat ice cream, the regulation of butter substitutes, certain animal
health regulation provisions and the requirement for the board of animal health
to charge the state agricultural society for certain state fair services, the
federal land and water fund and the natural resources federal reimbursement
account, a certain decorative trees bill of sale requirement, new ISTS
technologies, waste tire management, the lead fund, petroleum tank release
cleanup reimbursements, the motor vehicle salvage facilities cleanup cost share
program and certain chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) packaging prohibitions and certain
rules relating to retail food handlers plan review fees, pollution indirect
source permits and individual sewage treatment system new technologies and
warranties; providing an effective date for certain prior wastewater
infrastructure funding program funding level modifications(ja)