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Copy of the Public Law Appropriating OHF Funding Legislative Citation: ML 2011, First Special Session,Ch.6,Art. 1,Sec.2,Subd. 5(d): Metro Big Rivers Habitat-Phase II $5,000,000 the first year is to the commissioner of natural resources for agreements to acquire interests in land in fee or permanent conservation easements and to restore and enhance natural systems associated with the Mississippi, Minnesota,and St. Croix Rivers as follows: $960,000 to the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc.; $150,000 to Great River Greening;$840,000 to Minnesota Land Trust; $150,000 to Friends of the Mississippi River; and $2,900,000 to The Trust for Public Land. A list of proposed projects,describing types and locations of acquisitions, restorations, and enhancements, must be provided as part of the required accomplishment plan.The accomplishment plan must include an easement monitoring and enforcement plan. Money appropriated from the outdoor heritage fund for easement acquisition may be used to establish a monitoring and enforcement fund as approved in the accomplishment plan and subject to subdivision 15.An annual financial report is required for any monitoring and enforcement fund established, including expenditures from the fund. Legislative Citation: ML 2012,Ch.264,Art. 1, Sec. 2,Subd. 5 (b): Metro Big Rivers Habitat-Phase III $3,680,000 in the second year is to the commissioner of natural resources for agreements to acquire interests in land in fee or permanent conservation easements and to restore and enhance natural systems associated with the Mississippi, Minnesota, and St.Croix Rivers as follows: $1,000,000 to the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc.; $375,000 to the Friends of the Mississippi; $375,000 to Great River Greening;$930,000 to The Minnesota Land Trust; and$1,000,000 to The Trust for Public Land. A list of proposed acquisitions, restorations, and enhancements must be provided as part of the required accomplishment plan.The accomplishment plan must include an easement stewardship plan. Up to$51,000 is for establishing a monitoring and enforcement fund as approved in the accomplishment plan and subject to Minnesota Statutes, section 97A.056, subdivision 17.An annual financial report is required for any monitoring and enforcement fund established, including expenditures from the fund and a description of annual monitoring and enforcement activities.