1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for wastewater 
1.3 	infrastructure; authorizing sale and issuance of state bonds. 
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING 
1.6 	PROGRAM.
 1.7 	(a) $40,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the Public 
1.8 	Facilities Authority for grants and loans to eligible municipalities under the wastewater 
1.9 	infrastructure program established in Minnesota Statutes, section 446A.072.
1.10 	To the greatest extent practical, the authority must use the appropriation for projects 
1.11 	on the 2006 project priority list for qualified applicants that submit plans and specifications 
1.12 	to the Pollution Control Agency or receive a funding commitment from USDA Rural 
1.13 	Economic and Community Development by July 1, 2006. Funds not reserved for eligible 
1.14 	projects by July 1, 2006, shall, to the greatest extent practical, be used for projects on the 
1.15 	2007 project priority list in priority order to qualified applicants that submit plans and 
1.16 	specifications to the Pollution Control Agency or have received a funding commitment 
1.17 	from USDA Rural Economic and Community Development by December 31, 2007.
1.18 	The grants listed in this paragraph are not subject to the 2006 and 2007 project 
1.19 	priority lists, nor to the limitations on grant amounts set forth in Minnesota Statutes, 
1.20 	section 446A.072, subdivision 5a. 
1.21 	(b) $300,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Public Facilities Authority 
1.22 	to implement the wastewater infrastructure program.

1.23 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 2.1 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
2.2 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
2.3 	$40,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
2.4 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
2.5 	sections 4 to 7.

2.6 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.7 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.