This legislative bill aims to enhance the coordination, effectiveness, transparency, and accountability of the environmental review and permitting processes for metallic mineral mining projects in Minnesota. The bill outlines the creation of a new law under Minnesota Statutes chapter 93, focusing on several key aspects:

1. Definitions and Applicability: Definitions are clarified for terms like "commissioner", "covered mining project", and "participating agency", encompassing projects that require environmental assessments or impact statements.

2. Environmental and Permitting Review Dashboard: A new online dashboard will be developed. This dashboard will track and display environmental review and permit documents for public and agency viewing. Project summaries, timelines, document links, and status updates must be posted on this dashboard.

3. Coordinated Project Plan: The bill requires a detailed project plan to be created for each mining project, outlining schedules and responsibilities for both public and agency involvement in environmental reviews and permitting. This plan will be updated quarterly.

4. Roles of Participating Agencies: Agencies involved in the project must keep to specific timelines and contribute necessary information to the dashboard. They are required to provide prompt updates if delays occur and are mandated to meet established deadlines, with requirements for reporting and justification if these are not met.

5. Synchronization and Communication: The bill promotes synchronization of state processes with federal, local, and Tribal reviews to streamline and speed up decision-making. It also enhances early communication between project proposers and agencies to identify and address potential issues upfront.

6. Best Practices and Reporting: The commissioner is tasked with issuing recommendations for best practices in environmental reviewing and permitting every two years and must also submit an annual report detailing progress in improving the processes.

7. General Provisions: The bill ensures that these new measures do not conflict with federal law or existing state law responsibilities.

This legislative effort represents a structured approach to managing environmental considerations for mining projects, intending to make the process more transparent and efficient while ensuring thorough environmental safeguards.