Bill > SF3887

This bill appropriates $29,513,000 for environment and natural resources programs for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2024, and June 30, 2025. * **Pollution Control Agency:** $11,551,000 is appropriated from the General Fund and the Environmental Fund. This includes funding for air regulatory work in environmental justice areas ($2,975,000), legal services ($525,000), a mobile emissions monitoring trailer ($1,025,000), a climate adaptation and resilience study ($750,000), composting grants for multifamily buildings ($2,000,000), an electronic recycling study ($150,000), the Critical Materials Recovery Advisory Task Force ($319,000), state salt purchase reporting ($88,000), and the boat wrap product stewardship program ($219,000). * **Department of Natural Resources:** $18,662,000 is appropriated from the General Fund, Game and Fish Fund, Natural Resources Fund, and Permanent School Fund. This includes funding for legal costs ($1,000,000), public safety costs ($200,000), an electronic licensing system ($2,600,000), compensation for conservation officers ($300,000), Keep it Clean grants ($1,418,000), unsafe ice search and rescue reimbursement ($200,000), improvements to the International Wolf Center building ($1,332,000), the Outdoor School For All Minnesota Students program ($2,000,000), condemnation of land in Mille Lacs County ($750,000), outreach and education for non-English speaking communities ($1,400,000), nonlethal beaver management grants ($500,000), a study of recreational use of permanent school land ($417,000), and a nonpetroleum gas regulatory framework ($3,174,000). * **Board of Water and Soil Resources:** $2,300,000 is appropriated from the General Fund for manure management grants ($2,000,000) and a feasibility assessment for adaptive phosphorus management for the Red River of the North ($300,000). * **Metropolitan Council:** $500,000 is appropriated from the Natural Resources Fund for new fishing piers. The bill also includes policy changes related to environmental review, permitting, state land management, and establishes a Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act.