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