1.1.................... moves to amend H.F. No. 1122 as follows:
1.2Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:

1.3    "Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 114D.15, is amended by adding a
1.4subdivision to read:
1.5    Subd. 13. Watershed restoration and protection strategy or WRAPS. "Watershed
1.6restoration and protection strategy" or "WRAPS" means a document summarizing
1.7scientific studies of a major watershed including the physical, chemical, and biological
1.8assessment of the water quality of the watershed; identification of impairments and water
1.9bodies in need of protection; identification of stressors and sources of pollution, both
1.10point and nonpoint; TMDLs for the impairments; and an implementation table containing
1.11strategies and actions designed to achieve and maintain water quality standards and goals.

1.12    Sec. 2. [114D.26] WATERSHED RESTORATION AND PROTECTION
1.13STRATEGIES.
1.14    Subdivision 1. Contents. The Pollution Control Agency, in cooperation with the
1.15Board of Water and Soil Resources, the commissioner of natural resources, and others,
1.16shall develop watershed restoration and protection strategies. To ensure effectiveness and
1.17accountability in meeting the goals of this chapter, each WRAPS shall:
1.18(1) identify impaired waters and waters in need of protection;
1.19(2) identify stressors causing impairments or threats to water quality;
1.20(3) summarize watershed modeling outputs and resulting pollution load allocations,
1.21wasteload allocations, and priority areas for targeting actions to improve water quality;
1.22(4) identify point sources of pollution for which a national pollutant discharge
1.23elimination system permit is required under section 115.03 with sufficient specificity to
1.24prioritize specific watershed restoration and protection actions;
2.1(5) identify nonpoint sources of pollution for which a national pollutant discharge
2.2elimination system permit is not required under section 115.03, with sufficient specificity to
2.3prioritize and geographically locate specific watershed restoration and protection actions;
2.4(6) describe the current pollution loading and load reduction needed for each source
2.5or source category to meet water quality standards and goals, including wasteload and
2.6load allocations from TMDLs;
2.7(7) contain interim water quality goals and a plan for ongoing water quality
2.8monitoring to fill data gaps, determine changing conditions, and gauge implementation
2.9effectiveness; and
2.10(8) contain an implementation table of strategies and actions based on a scenario
2.11estimated to be capable of achieving needed pollution load reductions for point and
2.12nonpoint sources, including:
2.13(i) water quality parameters of concern;
2.14(ii) current water quality conditions;
2.15(iii) water quality goals and targets by parameter of concern;
2.16(iv) prioritized actions by parameter of concern;
2.17(v) timelines and an estimated range of costs for achievement of interim and final
2.18water quality targets;
2.19(vi) an assessment of the extent to which compliance with existing laws would
2.20provide needed pollution reductions;
2.21(vii) identification of governmental units responsible for implementing, monitoring,
2.22and reporting on watershed restoration or protection actions;
2.23(viii) a list and an estimate for each of the public and private funding sources and
2.24amounts anticipated to be available for the needed implementation actions; and
2.25(ix) a timeline for achievement of watershed restoration or protection implementation
2.26actions within ten years of strategy adoption, including milestones at least every two years.
2.27    Subd. 2. Reporting. Beginning July 1, 2016, and every other year thereafter, the
2.28Pollution Control Agency must report on its Web site the progress toward implementation
2.29milestones and water quality goals for all adopted TMDLs and, where available, WRAPSs.
2.30    Subd. 3. Timelines. WRAPSs must be completed within one year of the
2.31Environmental Protection Agency's approval of TMDLs within the applicable watershed.

2.32    Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 114D.50, is amended by adding a subdivision
2.33to read:
2.34    Subd. 3a. Nonpoint priority funding plan. (a) Beginning July 1, 2014, and every
2.35other year thereafter, the Board of Water and Soil Resources shall prepare and post on its
3.1Web site a priority funding plan to prioritize potential nonpoint restoration and protection
3.2actions based on available WRAPs, TMDLs, and local water plans. The plan must take
3.3into account the following factors: water quality outcomes; cost-effectiveness; landowner
3.4financial need; and leverage of nonstate funding sources.
3.5(b) Consistent with the priorities listed in section 114D.20, state agencies allocating
3.6funds from the clean water fund for nonpoint restoration and protection strategies shall
3.7target the funds according to the priorities identified on the nonpoint priority funding plan.
3.8The allocation of the clean water fund to projects eligible for financial assistance under
3.9section 116.182 is not governed by the nonpoint priority funding plan.

3.10    Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 114D.50, is amended by adding a subdivision
3.11to read:
3.12    Subd. 4a. Riparian buffer payments; reporting. When clean water funds are used
3.13to purchase riparian buffer easements, payments for the first 50 feet of riparian buffer
3.14required by Minnesota Rules, part 6120.3300, cannot exceed 25 percent of the assessed
3.15land value. The Board of Water and Soil Resources must include in its biennial report
3.16on clean water fund appropriations the funding spent on easements for riparian buffers
3.17already required by Minnesota Rules, part 6120.3300, to be in perennial vegetation."
3.18Amend the title accordingly