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The Water Bi1lBoard <br />Nonpoinz source pollu- <br />zion or AgBrLiP loan <br />information: <br />Richard Prim <br />61 _'-290-843.1 <br />Paz Yutrenka <br />013-297-2175 <br />Tim :LlcGuire <br />013-21~-1018 <br />,Pau! Burns <br />012-290-,' 488 <br />Bonding. or supplemenza! <br />aDpropriarions bill <br />language:.4my Janke <br />61%-290-2880 <br />.4CRRr1 information: <br />.°aul Liemandt <br />012-297--~87 ? <br />Nonpoit source <br />pollution, A;BIV loan <br />programs fanderi <br />The 1996 Legislature added another S20 <br />million of the State Revolving Fund to <br />nonpoint source pollution programs adminis- <br />tered bythe iviinnesota Deparanent of <br />Agriculture (NIDA). <br />These funds will be available pending the <br />nest round of Environmental Protection <br />Agency (EPA) funding for State Revolving <br />Loan Funds. and will continue the iti1DA's <br />Agriculture Best ManagementPractices <br />(AgB?vIP) Loan Program, created to solve <br />z<Yisting water quality problems related to <br />asriculture. <br />The current AgBMP program is well under <br />way, and participants have used more than <br />S3 million ofthe 199 allocations. ?Mean- <br />while, 1996 allocations are ready for use in <br />many counties that received allocations. <br />f~'le <br />Water BiilBoard <br />Minnesota Board or Water & Soii Resources <br />Gne West Water Street, Ste. 200 <br />St. Paul, MN 5b107 <br />612-296-3767 <br />DDIIiY users can contaC. <br />BWSR through the Minnesota <br />Relay Service: 612-297-5353 <br />or 800-o2T-3529 <br />WaLet&Sai <br />Resotares <br />----= <br />Bonding, other news <br />The iVIDA will receive S~ 1 million in <br />additional funds to assist beginning farmers <br />and. others with Ioans as part of the 1996 <br />bonding bill. The agency will also receive <br />X275,000 to construct a greenhouse to <br />produce biological control agents. <br />The Omnibus Environment_ Natural <br />Resources and Agricultural Supplemental <br />Appropriations Bill changes the definition of <br />"eligible person'' forthe ACRRA account. <br />i`fow eligible for reimbursement is any <br />person inv n a real property transac- <br />tion ifhe or she voluntarily takes corrective <br />arrion toward an agricultur3i chemical <br />incident on the property, after a request or <br />order to do so from the commissioner. <br />Another bill eliminates the fee for certain <br />types of mobile mechanical fertilizer uniu, <br />and incomorates language requiring aquatic <br />pest applicators to pay into the ACR.~ <br />account, thus creating a level playing t5eld <br />with other applicators. <br />rust Gass <br />U.S. Postage <br />PAID <br />Permit No. 171 <br />Si. Paul, MN <br />3WSR is an equal opportunity employer. <br />