Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3794

E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government,
appropriating additional money for environmental, natural resources and
agricultural purposes; appropriating money to the pollution control agency for
administration of the wastewater infrastructure fund, to the department of
natural resources (DNR) for the settlement of certain legal costs relating to
the 1837 treaty litigation, for fish and wildlife management, for the walleye
stocking program, for natural resources laws enforcement, for lifetime licenses
administration and marketing, for grants in certain amounts to Lake, Cook, and
St. Louis counties for emergency communications and response equipment and
planning and training to respond to major wildfires, for state park and
recreation area and trail operations, for a grant to the metropolitan council
for metropolitan area regional parks and trails maintenance and operations, for
trail grants to local government units and for grants to the Minnesota
zoological garden, the city of St. Paul for the Como zoo and conservatory and
the city of Duluth for the Duluth zoo, to the board of water and soil resources
(BOWSR) for professional and technical services to replace wetlands, to the
department of agriculture for the farm advocates program, for the Minnesota
grown pilot program, for establishment of agricultural water quality and
quantity management, research, demonstration and education projects at Lamberton
and Waseca, for the state meat inspection program and for grants to
organizations participating in the farm wrap and the rural help networks, to the
board of animal health for pseudorabies control and to the citizens council on
Voyageurs national park; authorizing the commissioner to use a certain
percentage of a snowmobile maintenance and grooming grant to reimburse
recipients for equipment costs; cancelling a certain prior appropriation to the
commissioner of agriculture for the dairy producers board; expanding authorized
reimbursements from the agricultural chemical response and reimbursement account
for corrective action costs; establishing the Big Bog state recreation area in
Beltrami county and the Red River state recreation area in Polk county;
expanding the authority of the commissioner of natural resources to lease
portions of Fort Snelling state park, providing for the deposit of receipts;
requiring money appropriated from the game and fish fund to be spent in
accordance with certain federal regulations; authorizing and providing for the
commissioner to issue lifetime angling, small game, firearms deer or sporting
licenses to certain state residents and lifetime angling or small game hunting
licenses to nonresidents, fees, establishing the lifetime fish and wildlife
trust fund for crediting of the fees, providing for transfer of certain amounts
to the game and fish fund, specifying certain reporting requirements; increasing
hunting and fishing license fees; authorizing the PCA to temporarily enter into
agreements for implementation of a portion of an approved response action plan
and to provide grant funds for agreement implementation under the environmental
response and liability act (superfund); requiring the commissioner of revenue in
depositing revenue from the in lieu sales tax on lottery tickets to credit a
certain percentage to the game and fish fund for activities to improve or
enhance fish and wildlife resources and certain percentages to the natural
resources fund for state and local parks and trails; authorizing an existing
resource recovery facility in Hennepin county to reclaim, burn, use, process or
dispose of mixed municipal solid waste to the full extent of maximum yearly
capacity, requiring the facility to continue to comply with federal and state
environmental laws and regulations and to obtain a conditional use permit from
the municipality of location; authorizing the use of a certain prior
appropriation to the commissioner of natural resources for metro regional trails
by the city of Fridley for certain amenities at the trailhead to the Rice Creek
west regional trail; modifying the use of a certain prior appropriation to the
board of water and soil resources for grants to soil and water conservation
districts for erosion control and water quality management cost sharing
contracts, eliminating the priority for feedlot operators; expanding eligibility
for reimbursement from the ethanol development account and modifying the deposit
requirements for principal and interest payments on rural finance authority
(RFA) ethanol development program loans; modifying the source of a certain prior
appropriation to the agricultural utilization research institute; extending
landfill cleanup program eligibility to the western Lake Superior sanitary
district under certain conditions; providing for reimbursement by the petroleum
tank release compensation board to owners or operators of petroleum storage
tanks used for agricultural purposes and for certain small gasoline retailers
for storage tank removal purposes; requiring the legislative audit commission to
consider updating a certain report on ethanol programs; extending the
availability of certain prior appropriations for the proposed trail project
between the city of Pelican Rapids and Maplewood state park and for the
Hyland-Bush-Anderson Lake Park Reserve development project (je, ja)