1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to metropolitan government; suspending construction of the Central 
1.3 	Corridor Light Rail; requiring supplemental environmental impact statement; 
1.4 	providing a deadline for federal funding;proposing coding for new law in 
1.5 	Minnesota Statutes, chapter 473.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. [473.4041] CENTRAL CORRIDOR LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT 
1.8 	PROJECT; SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT.
1.9 		Subdivision 1.Suspension of construction. Notwithstanding section 473.3999, 
1.10 	or any other law to the contrary, the Metropolitan Council shall suspend all construction 
1.11 	and equipping of the Central Corridor Light Rail until the following conditions have 
1.12 	been satisfied: (1) The Metropolitan Council has supplemented the final environmental 
1.13 	impact statement to address the loss of business revenues as an adverse impact to the 
1.14 	construction of the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit project; and (2) the supplemental 
1.15 	environmental impact statement has met the requirements set by the United States District 
1.16 	Court, District of Minnesota, in Saint Paul Branch of the NAACP, et al. v. United States 
1.17 	Department of Transportation, et al., Civil No. 10-147, as determined by the approval 
1.18 	in writing by a majority of the plaintiffs to that action, or as determined by the United 
1.19 	States District Court.
1.20 		Subd. 2.Supplemental environmental impact statement; funding. No funds of 
1.21 	the Metropolitan Council appropriated, allocated, or encumbered, or otherwise authorized 
1.22 	for use for the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit project for any of the purposes 
1.23 	authorized in section 473.3999 may be used by the Metropolitan Council to meet the 
1.24 	requirements of this section. Funds received from the Federal Transit Authority, or other 
1.25 	federal funds, must be used to complete the supplemental environmental impact statement.
2.1 		Subd. 3.Deadline for federal approval. Notwithstanding the provisions of this 
2.2 	section, if the Federal Transit Authority has not agreed to partner with the Metropolitan 
2.3 	Council in constructing the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit project by April 1, 2011, 
2.4 	all construction of the project must be halted.

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

2.6 	Sec. 2. APPLICABILITY.
 Section 1 applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, 
2.8 	Scott, and Washington.