Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 8, August 19, 2024
Section 84.0871 - DATA ON FOREST INDUSTRY(a) The following data that the Department of Natural Resources collects, receives, or maintains through voluntary responses to questionnaires or surveys by forest industry businesses are classified as private data on individuals, as defined in section 13.02, subdivision 12, if the data are data on individuals or as nonpublic data, as defined in section 13.02, subdivision 9, if the data are data not on individuals: (1) timber resource consumption;(2) origin of timber resources;(3) cost of delivered timber;(4) forest industry product output; and(b) Data that the department collects, receives, or maintains through voluntary responses to questionnaires or surveys by forest industry businesses and that are not specified under paragraph (a), clauses (1) to (5), are public data.(c) Summary data, as defined in section 13.02, subdivision 19, that the department compiles from data under paragraph (a) or (b) are public data.(d) Data collected, received, or maintained by the department from bidders on state timber under section 90.145 are not subject to this section.Added by 2024 Minn. Laws, ch. 116,s 3-6, eff. 8/1/2024.