All Pollution and Pollution Control Agency Legislation - 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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"Global Warming Preparedness Act of 2007"; specifying legislative findings; defining certain terms related to greenhouse gas emissions; requiring pollution control agency (PCA) to monitor sources greenhouse gas emissions; requiring all major emitting sources to file with the PCA by a certain date a good faith estimate of greenhouse gas emissions; requiring PCA to adopt rules to require the reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions; requiring PCA to report to legislature by a certain date stating the amount of statewide greenhouse gas emissions, evaluating costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gases, identifying ways to reduce gases and developing research and investment opportunities regarding the reduction of greenhouse gases, specifying additional PCA duties; authorizing the public utilities commission (PUC) to approve routing of carbon dioxide pipelines; requiring owners of certain coal fired power [...]

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Relating to state government ARTICLE 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,[...]

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Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government ARTICLE 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 [...]

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Relating to capital improvements; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; establishing new programs and modifying existing programs; providing a summary of appropriations; appropriating money to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPR), to construct a science teaching student services building on the Twin Cities campus and a civil engineering addition to Voss-Kovach Hall on the Duluth campus, for renovation of the community services building on the Morris campus and renovation of the Folwell hall on the Twin Cities campus and specifying certain university share requirements, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPR), for renovation of Trafton science [...]

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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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