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LCCMR directs staff to draft bill to limit DNR approval of ENRTF land purchases, extend review to 30 days
Summary
The commission voted to ask staff to prepare legislation that would limit Department of Natural Resources commissioner approval of Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF) land acquisitions to parcels intended for eventual DNR management and extend the review window from 10 to 30 days.
The Legislative Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources on Nov. 19 directed staff to draft legislative language that would narrow a statutory requirement for the Department of Natural Resources commissioner to approve nonstate land acquisitions purchased with ENRTF money.
By roll call the commission approved Commissioner Michelle Beaman's motion to ask staff to prepare bill language that reverts the statute toward its 2010 scope (applying only when land is intended to be conveyed to the DNR for management) and…
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