The proposed rule may be modified if the modifications are supported by the data and views submitted to the agency and do not result in a substantially different rule, as determined under section 14.05, subdivision 2, from the rule as originally proposed. An agency may adopt a substantially different rule after satisfying the rule requirements for the adoption of a substantially different rule.
Minn. Stat. § 14.24
1977 c 443 s 2; 1980 c 615 s 6,44; 1981 c 253 s 5,10,11; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1995 c 233 art 2 s 22