2005 Minnesota Statutes - 17.231 — Native grasses and wildflower seed production incentive loan program.

     17.231 Native grasses and wildflower seed production 
  incentive loan program. 


    (a) The commissioner shall prepare a plan to establish a 
 seed production loan program to provide loans that enable people 
 to begin or expand efforts to develop and produce new, 
 local-origin, native grass, and native wildflower seed species. 


    (b) In the plan, the commissioner shall use the ecological 
 regions identified by the commissioner of natural resources 
 covering the entire state.  In the plan, the commissioner shall 
 design the loan program to produce at least ten local variety 
 native grass species and 40 local variety native wildflower 
 species for each region.  In the plan, the commissioner shall 
 look at the possibility of producing 100 acres of native grass 
 seed production and ten acres of native wildflower seed 
 production in each region. 


    HIST: 1995 c 220 s 40