1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for aquatic and wildlife 
1.3 	management areas and critical habitat; authorizing the sale and issuance of 
1.4 	state bonds.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. AQUATIC AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREAS; CRITICAL 
1.7 	HABITAT.
 1.8 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. (a) $27,500,000 is appropriated from the bond 
1.9 	proceeds fund to the commissioner of natural resources for the purposes specified in 
1.10 	this subdivision.
1.11 	(b) $13,500,000 is to acquire land in fee for wildlife management area purposes 
1.12 	and for improvements of a capital nature to develop, protect, or improve habitat and 
1.13 	facilities on wildlife management areas under Minnesota Statutes, section 86A.05, 
1.14 	subdivision 8. Not less than five percent of this appropriation must be used for restoration 
1.15 	of existing wildlife management areas. Not less than ten percent of this appropriation is 
1.16 	for restoration on land acquired with this appropriation. Fifty percent of this appropriation 
1.17 	is for acquisition of land in the seven-county metropolitan area.
1.18 	To the extent possible, prairie restorations funded in whole or in part with this 
1.19 	appropriation must use native prairie species of a local ecotype as defined in Minnesota 
1.20 	Statutes, section 84.02, subdivision 6. The commissioner shall submit a plan to the 
1.21 	legislature and the chairs of the house of representatives and senate committees with 
1.22 	jurisdiction over the environment and natural resources on the management of native 
1.23 	prairie lands and harvesting of native prairie vegetation for use for energy production 
2.1 	in a manner that does not devalue the natural habitat, water quality benefits, or carbon 
2.2 	sequestration functions.
2.3 	(c) $11,000,000 is to acquire land that is critical for fish and other aquatic life under 
2.4 	Minnesota Statutes, section 86A.05, and to make public improvements and betterments 
2.5 	of a capital nature to aquatic management areas established under Minnesota Statutes, 
2.6 	section 86A.05, subdivision 14.
2.7 	(d) $3,000,000 is to provide the state match for the critical habitat private sector 
2.8 	matching account under Minnesota Statutes, section 84.943.
2.9 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the 
2.10 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue 
2.11 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $27,500,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
2.12 	the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
2.13 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

2.14 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.