1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to solid waste; appropriating money for demonstration project.
1.3 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.4 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.5 	$2,850,000 in fiscal year 2016 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
1.6 	commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency for a grant to a solid waste management 
1.7 	company in Delano to construct an innovative municipal solid waste processing facility 
1.8 	with an annual capacity of up to 125,000 tons as a demonstration project to manage 
1.9 	organics through the use of an emerging technology to recover organic material and 
1.10 	nonrecyclable paper, which represents half the volume of material that is currently placed in 
1.11 	a landfill, and process it in a high solids anaerobic digester to produce Class I or II compost 
1.12 	and compressed natural gas for use in the company's solid waste collection vehicles. This 
1.13 	appropriation may be used to pay no more than 15 percent of the total project costs.