1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds; 
1.3 	appropriating money for grants to metropolitan area cities to address inflow 
1.4 	and infiltration in the sewer system.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. METROPOLITAN CITIES INFLOW AND INFILTRATION GRANTS.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $14,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.8 	fund to the Metropolitan Council for grants to cities within the metropolitan area, as 
1.9 	defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.121, subdivision 2, for capital improvements in 
1.10 	municipal wastewater collection systems to reduce the amount of inflow and infiltration to 
1.11 	the Metropolitan Council's metropolitan sanitary sewer disposal system. To be eligible for 
1.12 	a grant, a city must be identified by the Metropolitan Council as a contributor of excessive 
1.13 	inflow or infiltration and must be subject to the council's inflow and infiltration surcharge. 
1.14 	Grants from this appropriation are for up to 50 percent of the cost to mitigate inflow and 
1.15 	infiltration in the publicly owned municipal wastewater collection systems. The council 
1.16 	must award grants based on applications from eligible cities that identify eligible capital 
1.17 	costs and include a timeline for inflow and infiltration mitigation construction, pursuant 
1.18 	to guidelines established by the council.
1.19 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in subdivision 1 from 
1.20 	the bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and 
1.21 	issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $14,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, 
1.22 	and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and 
1.23 	by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

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