1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to the environment; transferring the 
  1.3             environmental education advisory board to the office 
  1.4             of environmental assistance; making other changes in 
  1.5             the board; amending Minnesota Statutes 1995 
  1.6             Supplement, section 115A.072, subdivision 1; repealing 
  1.7             Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section 126A.02, 
  1.8             subdivision 2. 
  1.9   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.10     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section 
  1.11  115A.072, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.12     Subdivision 1.  [WASTE EDUCATION COALITION.] (a) The 
  1.13  director shall provide for the development and implementation of 
  1.14  ~~a program of general public~~ environmental education ~~on waste~~ 
  1.15  ~~management in cooperation and coordination with the pollution~~ 
  1.16  ~~control agency, department of children, families, and learning,~~ 
  1.17  ~~department of agriculture, environmental quality board,~~ 
  1.18  ~~environmental education board, educational institutions, other~~ 
  1.19  ~~public agencies with responsibility for waste management or~~ 
  1.20  ~~public education, and three other persons who represent private~~ 
  1.21  ~~industry and who have knowledge of or expertise in recycling and~~ 
  1.22  ~~solid waste management issues.  The objectives of the program~~ 
  1.23  ~~are to:  develop increased public awareness of and interest in~~ 
  1.24  ~~environmentally sound waste management methods; encourage better~~ 
  1.25  ~~informed decisions on waste management issues by business,~~ 
  1.26  ~~industry, local governments, and the public; and disseminate~~ 
  1.27  ~~practical information about ways in which households and other~~ 
  2.1   ~~institutions and organizations can improve the management of~~ 
  2.2   ~~waste~~ programs that are designed to meet the goals listed in 
  2.3   section 126A.01. 
  2.4      (b) The director shall appoint an environmental education 
  2.5   advisory ~~task force, to be called the waste education coalition,~~ 
  2.6   ~~of up to 18 members~~ board to advise the director in carrying out 
  2.7   the director's responsibilities under this section ~~and whose~~ 
  2.8   ~~membership represents the agencies and entities listed in this~~ 
  2.9   ~~subdivision~~.  The board must consist of 20 members as follows: 
  2.10     (1) a representative of the pollution control agency; 
  2.11     (2) a representative of the department of children, 
  2.12  families, and learning; 
  2.13     (3) a representative of the department of agriculture; 
  2.14     (4) a representative of the department of health; 
  2.15     (5) a representative of the department of natural 
  2.16  resources; 
  2.17     (6) a representative of the board of water and soil 
  2.18  resources; 
  2.19     (7) a representative of the environmental quality board; 
  2.20     (8) a representative of the board of teaching; 
  2.21     (9) a representative of the University of Minnesota 
  2.22  extension service; 
  2.23     (10) a citizen member from each congressional district, of 
  2.24  which two must be licensed teachers currently teaching in the 
  2.25  K-12 system; and 
  2.26     (11) three at-large citizen members. 
  2.27  The citizen members are subject to section 15.0575, except that 
  2.28  they shall serve two-year terms.  The task force expires on June 
  2.29  30, ~~1997~~ 2003. 
  2.30     Sec. 2.  [REPEALER.] 
  2.31     Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section 126A.02, 
  2.32  subdivision 2, is repealed. 
  2.33     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.34     Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 
  2.35  enactment.