1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to energy; authorizing a grant to the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa to 
1.3 	study the feasibility of a renewable energy facility.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. BOIS FORTE BAND OF CHIPPEWA RENEWABLE ENERGY 
1.6 	GRANT.
 1.7 	From the appropriation in fiscal year 2008 for the ethanol development program 
1.8 	under Minnesota Statutes, section 41A.09, the commissioner of agriculture shall make 
1.9 	a grant of $300,000 to the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa for a feasibility study of a 
1.10 	renewable energy biofuels demonstration facility on the Bois Forte Reservation in St. 
1.11 	Louis and Koochiching counties.
1.12 	The grant shall be used by the Bois Forte Band to conduct a detailed feasibility study 
1.13 	of the economic and technical viability of developing a multistream renewable energy 
1.14 	biofuels demonstration facility on Bois Forte Reservation land to utilize existing forest 
1.15 	resources, woody biomass, and cellulosic waste to produce ethanol and/or butanol for use 
1.16 	as a liquid fuel source or a gasoline supplement and oxygenation agent.