Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF2099

2E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government;
appropriating money for environment, natural resources, and energy

ARTICLE 1-
ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Providing a summary of appropriations by
fund; appropriating money to pollution control agency (PCA) for the clean water
partnership program, for county feedlot permit program administration grants,
for local and basinwide water quality protection technical assistance and
education, for subsurface sewage treatment system (SSTS) administration and
grants, technology and technical assistance to local governments, for individual
septic tank fees administration, for water supply monitoring and health
assessment costs, for air quality purposes, for transfer from environmental fund
to the small business environmental improvement loan account, for air quality
monitoring, for monitoring ambient air for hazardous pollutants in the
metropolitan area and for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, for land
purposes, for the leaking underground storage tank program, for private water
supply monitoring and health assessment costs in areas contaminated by
unpermitted mixed municipal sold waste disposal facilities, for environmental
health tracking and biomonitoring, for environmental assistance and cross-media
purposes, for SCORE block grants to counties, for environmental assistance
grants and loans, for the composting grant program, for children's health toxic
chemicals in products protection duties, and for administrative support, to
commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for land and mineral resources
management, for mining permits issuance costs, for land and water crossings and
road easements license issuance costs, for iron ore cooperative research and
minerals cooperative environmental research and match requirements, for mineral
resource management, for school trust lands activities, for water resources
management, for water resources management purposes, for Red River mediation
agreement implementation grants, for a grant to the Mississippi Headwaters
board, for the upper Mississippi comprehensive plan payment to the Leech Lake
band of Chippewa Indians, for ring dikes construction, for forest management
operations, for the ecological classification systems (ECS) standards program,
for completion of a forest lands management study, for emergency firefighting
costs, for forest resource management policy and plan purposes, for the forest
resources council for implementation of the sustainable forest resources act,
for parks and recreation management, for nature-based outdoor recreation
participation activities, for enhancing public water access facilities and for
downloadable GPS coordinates and river gauge data interpretation, for state park
and recreation area operations and Explore Minnesota tourism activities, for
snowmobile and off-highway grants in aid, for state trail operations and
specifying sign requirements for the Northshore/C. J. Ramstad trail, for fish
and wildlife management purposes, for gray wolf research, wild deer population
bovine tuberculosis control, for walleye stocking, for wildlife acquisition
costs, for fish and wildlife resources improvement, enhancement and protection
activities, for expanding hunter and angler recruitment and retention and public
land user facilities, to publicize the critical habitat license plate match
program, for trout and salmon management, for deer habitat improvements, for
deer and bear, waterfowl, pheasant and wild turkey management, for grassland
wetland complexes on public and private lands programs and efforts, for
ecological services, for nongame management and activities, for heritage
enhancement activities for fish and wildlife resources, for law enforcement and
management to prevent the spread of invasive species, management of invasive
plants in public waters and of terrestrial invasive species on state lands, for
certain integrated ecological resource management, health watersheds and
landscapes input and program activities, for enforcement purposes, for boat and
water safety county grants, for local law enforcement agencies snowmobile
enforcement grants, for fish and wildlife enforcement activities, for county law
enforcement agencies grants for off-highway vehicle enforcement and public
education activities based on off-highway vehicle use in the county and for
qualifying organization grants to assist in safety and environmental education
and monitoring trails on public lands, for operations support for the city of
St. Paul for the Como zoo and conservatory and the city of Duluth for the zoo,
to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) for natural resources block
grants to local governments, match, for soil and water conservation districts
grants for general purposes, nonpoint engineering and implementation of the
reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) conservation reserve program, for cost sharing
contracts for erosion control and water quality management, for establishing and
maintaining vegetation buffers of restored prairies, for county cooperative weed
management programs on certain lands and to restore native plants in certain
invasive species management sites, for the Minnesota River board for major
watershed projects within the Minnesota River basin, for grants to Area II
Minnesota River basin projects for floodplain management, for the Red River
basin commission for water management activities, for the implementation of the
Wetland Conservation Act, to the metropolitan council for metropolitan area
regional parks maintenance and operations, and for metropolitan area regional
parks and trails maintenance and operations, to the Minnesota conservation corps
in agreement with the commissioner, to the zoological board and to the Science
Museum of Minnesota; providing for the continued availability of certain funds
and providing for certain fund transfers; specifying certain report requirements
to the legislature; modifying certain deposit requirements for utility crossing
fees received from certain utility permits, establishing supplemental
application and monitoring fees for utility easements; imposing certain land
management easement application and monitoring fees; imposing fees for certain
road easement construction monitoring activities; imposing an application fee
for release of an unneeded state easement; imposing an application fee for state
trail easements for ingress and egress; renaming the Northshore trail the
Northshore/C.J. Ramstad memorial trail; prohibiting the sale of lands within the
outdoor recreation system; expanding uses of the land management account;
imposing application fees for a permit to mine for taconite, nonferrous metallic
minerals, scram mining or peat operation and requiring submittal of a permit
amendment application fee with the written application, specifying certain
regulations for the mining administration account; imposing certain mining
reclamation fees, annual permit to mine fees, supplemental application fee for
taconite and nonferrous metallic minerals mining operation and reclamation fee
on taconite iron ore produced; providing for the exchanges of certain class A
riparian lands administered by commissioner; modifying annual payments to
counties for public hunting areas and game refuges; modifying certain emergency
deer feeding and wild cervidae health management account requirements; modifying
the water use permit processing fee schedule; modifying certain general water
permit application fee and field inspection fees requirements; modifying certain
electronic waste account requirements; modifying the county waste reduction and
recycling funding distribution formula; establishing the composting competitive
grant program and specifying certain duties of commissioner of pollution control
agency (PCA); prohibiting the placement of yard waste or source-separated
compostable materials generated in a metropolitan county in a plastic bag
delivered to a transfer station or yard waste compost facility, exception;
providing a three-part formula for county feedlot program grants and regulating
minimum and prorated grants and transfers; requiring identification of certain
harmful chemicals in children's products, authorizing department of health to
designate priority chemicals of high concern, authorizing participation in
interstate chemicals clearinghouse; providing for greenhouse gas emissions
registry, requiring commissioner to establish a reporting system and maintain an
inventory of greenhouse gas emissions; establishing standards for labeling
plastic bags and imposing penalties; authorizing uses for the Hennepin County
solid and hazardous waste fund; modifying general distribution requirements and
payments to counties for natural resources land; extending the date for the sale
of certain state land by commissioner of administration; specifying certain high
priority chemical reporting requirements to the legislature by commissioners of
health and pollution control agency; allowing county waste management reduction
and recycling annual reports (SCORE) to be abbreviated; specifying a certain
reorganization prohibition for the environmental quality board prior to a
certain date; requiring a report by commissioner of pollution control agency to
the legislature by a certain date on environmental review streamlining;
repealing the mining administrative fee provision

ARTICLE 2 -
ENERGY

Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to
department of commerce for telecommunication purposes, for the office of energy
security for E-85 grants, for a grant to the board of regents of the university
of Minnesota for the Duluth natural resources and research institute to develop
statewide heat flow maps, for renewable energy community energy technical
assistance and outreach, for a green manufacturing nonprofit organization grant,
for new solar electricity projects rebates, for telecommunications access
Minnesota, for a transfer to commissioner of human services for Minnesota
commission serving deaf and hard-of-hearing people supplemental expenses, to
commissioner of commerce for a grant to the commission of deaf, deafblind and
hard-of-hearing Minnesotans to provide Web site information in American sign
language and technical assistance to state agencies and for a grants to
legislative coordinating commission (LCC) for a pilot program to provide live
streaming of legislative sessions on the commission Web site; extending the time
period for renewable energy production incentive payments; directing the use of
unexpended wind energy conversion systems incentive payments to qualified
on-farm biogas recovery facilities and hydroelectric facilities; requiring
commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to lead a multiagency
project to advise, promote, market and mandate state agency collaboration on
green enterprise and green economy projects; modifying commerce department
duties relating to assessing public utilities, cooperative electric associations
and municipal utilities for certain activity costs; requiring commissioner of
commerce to establish an emerging renewable energy industries grant program to
make grants to eligible businesses to assist in the development of renewable
energy systems and components for renewable energy systems manufacturing in the
state; requiring director of the office of energy security to study the economic
and technical feasibility of bulk installation of solar photovoltaic panels on
school buildings and requiring feasibility report to the legislature; cancelling
and reappropriating the remaining portion of certain prior appropriations for
green jobs task force and rural energy development revolving loan fund
(me)