Bill Summary

• Authorizes clean water fund expenditures for projects meeting constitutional water quality protection requirements and permits use of clean water funds to leverage federal funds through formal partnership agreements.

• Establishes wastewater laboratory certification program under Minnesota Pollution Control Agency with rulemaking authority; fees collected deposited to environmental fund.

• Modifies Petroleum Tank Release Cleanup Act to allow agency acquisition of real property interests including easements and environmental covenants for corrective actions; expands definition of corrective action.

• Creates new Chapter 442A consolidating and modernizing sanitary district procedures, replacing outdated sections 115.18-115.37; transfers sanitary district oversight to chief administrative law judge with comprehensive procedures for district creation, annexation, detachment, and dissolution.

• Repeals obsolete Minnesota Rules relating to sanitary districts and other environmental regulations; modifies reporting requirements consolidating multiple legislative reports into coordinated submissions.