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DocuSign Envelope ID: E1227292-CABD-4035-9075-56C5CB154254 Subd. 3. Eligibility. (a) To be eligible to receive money distributed by the commissioner under this section, a county shall within one year of October 4, 1989: (1) create a separate account in its general fund to credit the money; and (2) set up accounting procedures to ensure that money in the separate account is spent only for the purposes in subdivision 2. (b) In each following year, each county shall also: (1) have in place an approved solid waste management plan or master plan including a recycling implementation strategy under section I I5A.551, subdivision 7, and a household hazardous waste management plan under section ] 15A.96, subdivision 6, by the dates specified in those provisions; (2) submit a report by April 1 of each year to the commissioner, which may be submitted electronically and must be posted on the agency's website, detailing for the previous calendar year: (i) how the money was spent including, but not limited to, specific recycling and composting activities undertaken to increase the county's proportion of solid waste recycled in order to achieve its recycling goal established in section I I5A.551; specific information on the number of employees performing SCORE planning, oversight, and administration; the percentage of those employees' total work time allocated to SCORE planning, oversight, and administration; the specific duties and responsibilities of those employees; and the amount of staff salary for these SCORE duties and responsibilities of the employees; and (ii) the resulting gains achieved in solid waste management practices; and (3) provide evidence to the commissioner that local revenue equal to 25 percent of the money sought for distribution under this section will be spent for the purposes in subdivision 2. (c) The commissioner shall withhold all or part of the funds to be distributed to a county under this section if the county fails to comply with this subdivision and subdivision 2. Subd.4. Report. The commissioner shall report on how the money was spent and the resulting statewide improvements in solid waste management to the senate and house of representatives committees having jurisdiction over ways and means, finance, environment and natural resources, and environment and natural resources finance. The report shall be included in the report required under section I I5A.411. History: IS p1989 c I art 19 s 1; 1991 c 337 s 26; 1992 c 593 art I s 17,54; 1994 c 585 s 13; 1994 c 639 art 5 s 3; 1995 c 247 art I s 19,20; 1996 c 470 s 27; 2000 c 490 art 10 s 1; IS2001 c 2 s 125; 2002 c 374 art 6 s 2; 2004 c 284 art 2 s 11; IS p2005 c I art 2 s 161; 2009 c 37 art I s 42; 2012 c 272 s 69; 2014 c 312 art 13 s 28, 29; IS p2015 c 4 art 4 s 109