Law and Government Legislation regarding 'Pollution and Pollution Control Agency' in Minnesota

1E Relating to motor fuels; modifying the definition of biodiesel fuel and increasing the minimum content of biodiesel fuel in diesel fuel, specifying biodiesel content goals; establishing a panel composed of the commissioners of agriculture, commerce and pollution control agency (PCA) and specifying duties, clarifying minimum content exceptions; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to issue a report annually by a certain date to the legislature regarding the implementation of biodiesel minimum content requirements; requiring the commissioners of finance, commerce and the PCA to develop and submit to the legislature a proposal for eliminating redundant fuel inspections and dedicating petroleum inspection fee revenue to the weights and measures division of the department of commerce; requiring the commissioners of agriculture and commerce to consider and provide recommendations to maximize the performance of biodiesel

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1E Relating to capital investments; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPRA), a new Twin Cities campus science teaching and student services building, a new St. Paul campus Bell museum of natural history, an addition to Duluth campus Voss-Kovach hall, Morris campus community services building renovation, a new Crookston campus maintenance facility at the Northwest research and outreach center, classroom disability access, laboratory renovation, specifying a projects costs coverage allotment limit for except HEAPRA and dedicating unspent appropriations to HEAPRA, to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement [...]

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TICLE 1 - JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for remediation, business and community and workforce development, unemployment insurance and state funded administration, to the commissioner of commerce for workers compensation, financial examinations, the petroleum tank release cleanup board, administrative services, market assurance, energy and telecommunications, renewable development grants and renewable energy research, to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the economic development and housing challenge, housing trust fund, rental assistance for the mentally ill, family homeless prevention, home ownership assistance and affordable rental investment funds, housing rehabilitation and accessibility, home ownership education, counseling and training and capacity building grants, for explore Minnesota tourism, to the [...]

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TICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations and appropriation reductions by fund; reducing certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of commerce for administration and office of energy security programs, to the commissioner of employment and economic security (DEED) for the employment grants program, to the commissioner of labor and industry for the municipal building permit reporting unit in the labor standards program and to the bureau of mediation services; appropriating money to the commissioner of commerce for energy and telecommunications, to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development and workforce development, to Explore Minnesota tourism for the Minnesota film and TV board, to the Minnesota historical society for the sesquicentennial commission and to the combative sports commission; requiring fund transfers from the [...]

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Providing for the collection and recycling or reuse of video display devices; defining certain terms; establishing a registration program under the pollution control agency (PCA) and specifying certain manufacturer labeling and registration requirements for the sale of new household video display devices, specifying collector and recycler registration requirements, requiring PCA web site information maintenance; establishing the electronic waste account in the environmental fund, requiring annual manufacturer registration fee payment to the department of revenue, requiring manufacturer annual reporting and recycling, specifying recycler and retailer responsibilities; specifying PCA and department of revenue duties and state agencies purchasing requirements; prohibiting local government units and public agencies from requiring household to use public facilities to the exclusion of other lawful available programs to recycle [...]

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4E Providing for the collection and recycling or reuse of video display devices; providing for commissioner of revenue data collected under the video display device recycling program and registration fees, authorizing certain disclosures; defining certain terms; establishing a registration program under the pollution control agency (PCA) and specifying certain manufacturer labeling and registration requirements for the sale of new household video display devices, specifying collector and recycler registration requirements, requiring PCA web site information maintenance; establishing the electronic waste account in the environmental fund, requiring annual manufacturer registration fee payment to the department of revenue, appropriating money annually until a certain date from the account to the PCA for administration purposes and for distribution of competitive grants to counties and private entities outside the metropolitan

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3E Relating to bioenergy development; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to establish a clean energy capital equipment revolving loan fund to receive appropriations and make loans for capital equipment to persons participating in the reinvest in Minnesota clean energy program; providing for cellulosic biofuel development; defining cellulosic biofuel, material and facility and other terms relating to cellulosic biofuel development, specifying a production goal and requiring commissioner cash payments to eligible cellulosic biofuel producers under certain conditions; providing for a bioenergy production incentive; defining bioenergy production, crops and project area, requiring the commissioner to make cash payment to bioenergy producers under certain conditions; requiring the board of soil and water resources (BOWSR) to establish and administer an additional reinvest in Minnesota clean energy program, defining [...]

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Establishing regulation of ballast water discharge into Lake Superior by oceangoing vessels; defining certain terms; setting standards for ballast waste management and requirements for water uptake and discharge, exchange and water treatment methods; requiring permit issuance by the commissioner of the pollution control agency (PCA) for discharge purposes, specifying certain application and fee requirements; specifying certain sediment management requirements; requiring operators of a vessel to conduct ballast water management operations according to a ballast water management plan designed to minimize the discharge of invasive species, specifying certain approval and recordkeeping requirements; specifying certain duties and authority of the commissioner relating to examinations and inspection requirements before issuing a ballast water management permit, rules adoption requirements, imposing penalties; specifying certain [...]

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1E Establishing a environmental health tracking and biomonitoring program; requiring the commissioner of health to coordinate data collection activities with the Minnesota pollution control agency (PCA), department of agriculture, university of Minnesota and other relevant state agencies to promote sharing and access to health and environmental databases in order to develop an environmental health tracking system consistent with data practices laws, specifying commissioner duties, requiring the department of health to conduct biomonitoring and share results with certain groups; providing for a biomonitoring pilot program; directing the commissioner to consult with certain organizations to specify chemicals and metals to be analyzed under the pilot program; requiring the commissioners of health, PCA, agriculture and the university of Minnesota to jointly develop a memorandum for information sharing; appropriating money [...]

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TICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES AND AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; modifying disposition of certain revenue and funds; appropriating money to the pollution control agency for the clean water partnership program, for community technical assistance and education for local and basinwide water quality protection and grants, for individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) administration and grants, for new technology review, technical assistance for local governments and enforcement purposes and the administration of individual septic tank fees, for implementing the clean water legacy act, for providing regulatory services to the ethanol, mining and other developing economic sectors, for county feedlot program grants and specifying a three part formula for fund distribution, for the small business environmental improvement loan program and air monitoring programs, for

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Relating to solid waste; requiring the department of administration to require state building construction and demolition contracts to divert a certain percentage of waste from landfill deposit and require a certain percentage to be recycled; removing source separated compostable materials from mixed municipal solid waste inclusion and requiring composting or transfer to a composting facility; defining reuse and including food products in the definition; providing a product stewardship standard for resource conservation, public health protection, waste prevention and toxicity reduction purposes and requiring pollution control agency (PCA) commissioner recommendations and requiring a periodic PCA solid waste characterization study; requiring certain incinerator resource recovery facilities to recover ferrous (iron) and nonferrous metals for reuse after a certain date; prescribing metropolitan area contractor construction [...]

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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

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TICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for the clean water partnership program, community technical assistance and education, individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) administration and grants, surface water quality and trends assessments, clean water legacy implementation, total maximum daily loads (TMDL) development, economic sectors development regulation such as ethanol and mining, air monitoring, the leaking underground storage tank program, health assessments, drinking water, environmental assistance, county SCORE block grants, alternative fuel use promotion, pollutant emission and greenhouse gases reduction, to the commissioners of the PCA and department of agriculture for environmental response and liability, to the department of natural resources (DNR) for land and mineral resources management, iron ore cooperative research,[...]

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6E "Green Solutions Act of 2008; requiring the commissioners of commerce and the pollution control agency (PCA) to submit a report to the legislature on the status of the development of a model rule establishing a regional cap and trade program under the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Accord; establishing the legislative greenhouse gas accord advisory group to serve in an advisory capacity to the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Accord stakeholder group; specifying certain economic impact study reporting requirements; requiring the commissioners of commerce and the pollution control agency (PCA) to submit a revenue study to the legislature on potential revenues to the state from a cap and trade program and how revenues could be spent to mitigate economic disparities resulting from implementation of a cap and trade program specifying expenditures to be studied and study criteria; authorizing the commissioner of commerce to request the [...]

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TICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA) for the clean water partnership program, for community technical assistance and education for local and basinwide water quality protection, for individual sewage treatment system (ISTS) administration and grants, for technology and technical assistance to local governments, for individual septic tank fees administration, for county feedlot program grants, for providing regulatory services to the ethanol, mining and other developing economic sectors, for bioenergy crop utilization technologies, for the completion of an endocrine disruptors report, for an evaluation of point of use water treatment units at removing certain chemicals in drinking water, for air quality purposes, for the small business environmental improvement loan program, for monitoring ambient air [...]

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TICLE 1 - AIDS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Modifying the distribution of local government aid (LGA); specifying a city revenue need minimum; modifying the city aid base and increasing the aid base for certain cities; defining small city aid base, city jobs base, out of home placement aid and town aids; modifying county tax base equalization aid and transition aid, city formula aid, city aid distribution, county aids; providing a 2009 aid adjustment; increasing the cities appropriation limit; providing an inflation adjustment for municipal (city) aid and county need aid distributions; providing a distribution of payments in lieu of tax for land included in state parks located on Lake Vermilion; authorizing first class metropolitan cities in receipt of certain excessive aid to expend excess on debt obligations related to public facilities or neighborhood revitalization; requiring a legislative study of local government [...]

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TICLE 1 - UTILITIES Modifying provisions relating to the petrofund program; allowing the petroleum tank release compensation board to recover expenses incurred by the pollution control agency (PCA) in taking corrective actions; requiring th