Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
An act
relating to capital investment; providing flood relief for Browns Valley; authorizing flood mitigation projects in Browns Valley; appropriating money;
amending Laws 2005, chapter 20, article 1, section 7, subdivision 2; Laws 2006, chapter 258, section 7, subdivision 3.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
new text begin $2,000,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of public safety for a grant to the city of Browns Valley to be used for relief from damage caused by the flooding of March 2007. This appropriation is available until June 30, 2009. new text end
new text begin The Housing Finance Agency may use the disaster relief contingency fund established under Minnesota Statutes, section 462A.21, subdivision 29, to assist with the rehabilitation or replacement of housing damaged as a result of the Browns Valley flooding of March 2007, notwithstanding that the area is not included in a presidential declaration of major disaster. new text end
Subd. 2.Flood Hazard Mitigation Grants |
27,000,000 |
For the state share of flood hazard mitigation grants for publicly owned capital improvements to prevent or alleviate flood damage under Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.161.
The commissioner shall determine project priorities as appropriate based on need.
This appropriation includes money for the following projects: Ada, Austin, Breckenridge, new text begin Browns Valley, new text end Canisteo Mine, Cannon Falls, Crookston, Dawson, East Grand Forks, Grand Marais Creek, Granite Falls, Green Meadow Dam, Inver Grove Heights, Little McDonald Lake, Malung, Manston Slough, Minneapolis, Montevideo, Oakport, Palmville, Roseau River, St. Louis Park, Two River Ross Impoundment, Warren, and Whiskey Creek.
$2,000,000 is for Austin for identified capital improvement projects, and any other authorized federal or state flood mitigation projects in the area designated under Presidential Declaration of Major Disaster, DR-1569, whether included in the original declaration or added later by federal government action. The area currently included in DR-1569 includes territory within the counties of Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Mower, Olmsted, and Steele.
$175,000 is for the state share of a grant to the city of Cannon Falls for predesign and design of capital improvements to alleviate flooding caused by runoff from the bluffs and the flooding of the Little Cannon River and the Cannon River.
For any project listed in this subdivision that is not ready to proceed or does not expend all the money allocated to it, the commissioner may allocate that project's money to a project on the commissioner's priority list.
To the extent that the cost of a project in Ada, Austin, Breckenridge,new text begin Browns Valley,new text end Dawson, East Grand Forks, Granite Falls, Montevideo, Oakport Township, Roseau, or Warren exceeds two percent of the median household income in the municipality multiplied by the number of households in the municipality, this appropriation is also for the local share of the project.
There is no local share required for the Canisteo Mine project.
For grants for Roseau River wildlife management area, Palmville, and Malung, the state share must be $3 for each $1 of nonstate contribution.
Notwithstanding the grant expiration date of June 30, 2002, the commissioner of natural resources shall extend until June 30, 2007, the expiration date of a grant made to the city of Stillwater under Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.161, used to match certain federal appropriations for flood hazard mitigation.
Subd. 3.Flood Hazard Mitigation Grants |
25,000,000 |
For the state share of flood hazard mitigation grants for publicly owned capital improvements to prevent or alleviate flood damage under Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.161.
The commissioner shall determine project priorities as appropriate, based on need.
This appropriation includes money for the following projects:
(a) Austin
(b) Albert Lea
(c) new text begin Browns Valleynew text end
new text begin (d) new text end Crookston
deleted text begin (d)deleted text end new text begin (e)new text end Canisteo Mine
deleted text begin (e)deleted text end new text begin (f)new text end Delano
deleted text begin (f)deleted text end new text begin (g)new text end East Grand Forks
deleted text begin (g)deleted text end new text begin (h)new text end Golden Valley
deleted text begin (h)deleted text end new text begin (i)new text end Grand Marais Creek
deleted text begin (i)deleted text end new text begin (j)new text end Granite Falls
deleted text begin (j)deleted text end new text begin (k)new text end Inver Grove Heights
deleted text begin (k)deleted text end new text begin (l)new text end Manston Slough
deleted text begin (l)deleted text end new text begin (m)new text end Oakport Township
deleted text begin (m)deleted text end new text begin (n)new text end Riverton Township
deleted text begin (n)deleted text end new text begin (o)new text end Shell Rock Watershed District
deleted text begin (o)deleted text end new text begin (p)new text end St. Vincent
deleted text begin (p)deleted text end new text begin (q)new text end Wild Rice River Watershed District
For any project listed in this subdivision that the commissioner determines is not ready to proceed or does not expend all the money allocated to it, the commissioner may allocate that project's money to a project on the commissioner's priority list.
To the extent that the cost of a project in Ada, Breckenridge, new text begin Browns Valley, new text end Crookston, Dawson, East Grand Forks, Granite Falls, Montevideo, Oakport Township, Roseau, St. Vincent, or Warren exceeds two percent of the median household income in the municipality multiplied by the number of households in the municipality, this appropriation is also for the local share of the project. The local share for the St. Vincent dike may not exceed $30,000.
new text begin This act is effective the day following final enactment. new text end
Presented to the governor May 21, 2007
Signed by the governor May 23, 2007, 10:16 a.m.
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes