as introduced - 88th Legislature (2013 - 2014) Posted on 04/05/2013 08:27am
A bill for an act
relating to capital investment; appropriating money for metropolitan cities inflow
and infiltration grants; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
new text begin
$4,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
fund to the Metropolitan Council for grants to cities within the metropolitan area, as
defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.121, subdivision 2, for capital improvements in
municipal wastewater collection systems to reduce the amount of inflow and infiltration
to the Metropolitan Council's metropolitan sanitary sewer disposal system. Grants from
this appropriation are for up to 50 percent of the cost to mitigate inflow and infiltration in
the publicly owned municipal wastewater collection systems. The council must award
grants based on applications from cities that identify eligible capital costs and include
a timeline for inflow and infiltration mitigation construction, pursuant to guidelines
established by the council.
new text end
new text begin
To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
bonds of the state in an amount up to $4,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
new text end
new text begin
This section is effective the day following final enactment.
new text end