1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to natural resources; confidentiality of 
  1.3             mineral resources data; amending Minnesota Statutes 
  1.4             1994, section 13.793. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 13.793, is 
  1.7   amended to read: 
  1.8      13.793 [NATURAL RESOURCES MINERAL DATA.] 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [NONPUBLIC DATA.] Except as provided in 
  1.10  subdivision 2, the following data received and maintained by the 
  1.11  commissioner of natural resources are nonpublic data: 
  1.12     (1) a letter or other documentation from a person that is 
  1.13  supplied to the commissioner before a public lease sale of 
  1.14  metallic or other minerals for the purpose of making suggestions 
  1.15  or recommendations about which state lands may be offered for 
  1.16  public lease sale; or 
  1.17     (2) a written report or other documentation of private 
  1.18  analyses of a state-owned or controlled drill core that is 
  1.19  public data and is under the custody of the commissioner; or 
  1.20     (3) exploration data received by the commissioner under the 
  1.21  terms of a state mineral lease. 
  1.22     Subd. 2.  [DATA BECOME PUBLIC.] (a) Data under subdivision 
  1.23  1, clause (1), become public data three years after the date the 
  1.24  lease sale was held or, if not held, within three years after 
  1.25  the date the lease sale was scheduled to be held.  Except as 
  2.1   provided in paragraph (b), data under subdivision 1, clause (2), 
  2.2   become public data one year after receipt by the 
  2.3   commissioner.  Except as provided in paragraph (c) or as 
  2.4   otherwise provided for by law, data under subdivision 1, clause 
  2.5   (3), become public data upon termination of the state mineral 
  2.6   lease under which the data were gathered.  
  2.7      (b) If data under subdivision 1, clause (2), relate to 
  2.8   private land that is under mineral lease to the person 
  2.9   submitting the data, and the mineral lease is in force at the 
  2.10  time the data are submitted, the data become public data only 
  2.11  after the mineral lease is no longer in force.  The person 
  2.12  submitting the data that relate to private land that is under 
  2.13  mineral lease shall provide to the commissioner at the time the 
  2.14  data are submitted and annually thereafter, in a format 
  2.15  designated by the commissioner, satisfactory evidence that the 
  2.16  mineral lease is in effect.  If, in a given year, satisfactory 
  2.17  evidence that the mineral lease is still in effect is not 
  2.18  provided to the commissioner before the anniversary date of 
  2.19  receipt of the data by the commissioner, the data immediately 
  2.20  become public data.  
  2.21     (c) If data under subdivision 1, clause (3), are nonpublic 
  2.22  data under the provisions of section 103I.605, subdivision 4, 
  2.23  clause (c), the data become public data pursuant to the 
  2.24  provisions of section 103I.605, subdivision 4, clauses (c) and 
  2.25  (d).