Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0450

Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government;
appropriating money to the environmental and natural resources trust, the state
land and water conservation account (LAWCON), the legislative citizen commission
on Minnesota resources (LCCMR) for administrative expenses and for contract
administration, for forest legacy conservation easements, Minnesota habitat
corridors partnership phase IV, metro conservation corridors phase III, prairie
stewardship assistance for private landowners, state park and trail acquisition,
metropolitan regional park system land acquisition, nonmetropolitan regional
parks and natural and scenic area acquisitions, LAWCON federal reimbursements,
biological control of European buckthorn and garlic mustard, neutralization of
reed canary grass root exudates, for local water management matching challenge
grants, protection of rare and unique rock outcrop wetlands, land retirement
effects on Minnesota River basin streams, demonstrating effects of conservation
on grasslands on water quality, improved river quality monitoring using airborne
remote sensing, evaluating riparian timber harvesting guidelines phase III,
innovative springshed mapping for trout stream management, intra-lake zoning to
protect sensitive lakeshore areas, water resource sustainability, county
geologic atlas program acceleration, water resources impacts of climate change
phase II, pharmaceutical and microbiological pollution, threat of emerging
contaminants to upper Mississippi walleye, Cedar Creek groundwater project using
prairie biofuel buffers, pyrolysis pilot project, the count biological survey,
soil survey, field guide for evaluating vegetation of restored wetlands, natural
resource data collection and mapping and emerging issues account; requiring the
work program for every appropriation for acquisition to identify nonstate
leveraged funds and a plan for expenditure of fund to maximize the benefit of
the trust fund allocation; specifying data availability requirements; specifying
certain project requirements; specifying payment conditions and capital
equipment expenditure requirements; requiring the purchase of recycled and
recyclable materials; requiring compliance with energy conservation and
sustainable building guidelines; requiring compliance with federal Americans
with disabilities act (ADA); providing for the carryforward of appropriations;
modifying meeting requirements of the legislative citizen commission on
Minnesota resources (LCCMR)
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