1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money
1.3 	for capital projects to enable the reuse of Fergus
1.4 	Falls Regional Treatment Center; authorizing the sale
1.5 	and issuance of state bonds; conveying certain surplus
1.6 	state land; amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section
1.7 	245.036.
1.8 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.9 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 245.036, is
1.10 	amended to read:
1.11 	245.036 LEASES FOR STATE-OPERATED, COMMUNITY-BASED
1.12 	PROGRAMS.
1.13 	(a) Notwithstanding section 16B.24, subdivision 6,
1.14 	paragraph (a), or any other law to the contrary, the
1.15 	commissioner of administration may lease land or other premises
1.16 	to provide state-operated, community-based programs authorized
1.17 	by sections 252.50, 253.018, and 253.28 for a term of 20 years
1.18 	or less, with a ten-year or less option to renew, subject to
1.19 	cancellation upon 30 days' notice by the state for any reason,
1.20 	except rental of other land or premises for the same use.
1.21 	(b) The commissioner of administration may also lease land
1.22 	or premises to provide state-operated, community-based programs
1.23 	authorized by sections 252.50, 253.018, and 253.28from
1.24 	political subdivisions of the state for no more than 30 a term
1.25 	of 20 years or less, with a ten-year or less option to renew.  A
1.26 	lease under this paragraph may be canceled only due to the lack
2.1 	of a legislative appropriation for the program.

2.2 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION; DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION -
2.3 	FERGUS FALLS REGIONAL TREATMENT CENTER.
 2.4 	(a) The projects funded in this section must be implemented
2.5 	consistent with the recommendations in the final Fergus Falls
2.6 	Regional Treatment Center Master Plan and Reuse Study prepared
2.7 	and approved under Laws 2003, First Special Session chapter 14,
2.8 	article 6, section 64, subdivision 2, unless expressly provided
2.9 	otherwise.
2.10 	(b) $400,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to
2.11 	the commissioner of employment and economic development for a
2.12 	grant to the city of Fergus Falls to demolish the waste
2.13 	incinerator and steam heating facility at the Fergus Falls
2.14 	Regional Treatment Center, dispose of any hazardous materials,
2.15 	and fill the site.
2.16 	(c) $2,385,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund
2.17 	to the commissioner of finance to retire municipal bonds issued
2.18 	by the city of Fergus Falls and to retire interfund loans
2.19 	incurred by the city of Fergus Falls in connection with the
2.20 	waste incinerator and steam heating facility at the Fergus Falls
2.21 	Regional Treatment Center.

2.22 	Sec. 3. BOND SALE.
 2.23 	To provide the money appropriated by section 2, from the
2.24 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and
2.25 	issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $2,785,000 in the
2.26 	manner, on the terms, and with the effect prescribed by
2.27 	Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
2.28 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

2.29 	Sec. 4. CONVEYANCE OF SURPLUS STATE LAND; FERGUS FALLS.
 2.30 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 16B.281 to
2.31 	16B.287, or other law, administrative rule, or commissioner's
2.32 	order to the contrary, the commissioner of administration may
2.33 	convey to one or more local units of government for no
2.34 	consideration all or part of the real property at the Fergus
2.35 	Falls Regional Treatment Center for public purposes consistent
2.36 	with the master plan and reuse study.  The conveyance shall be
3.1 	in a form approved by the attorney general and subject to
3.2 	Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695.
3.3 	(b) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16C.23, the
3.4 	commissioner of administration may convey to one or more local
3.5 	units of government for no consideration all or part of the
3.6 	personal property determined by the commissioner of human
3.7 	services to be no longer needed for its operations.
3.8 	(c) If a local unit of government sells any property
3.9 	conveyed under this section to a private entity, the sale must
3.10 	be at a fair market value.

3.11 	Sec. 5. WAIVER.
 3.12 	The provisions, terms, and conditions of any grant made by
3.13 	the director of the Office of Environmental Assistance under
3.14 	Minnesota Statutes, chapter 115A, to the city of Fergus Falls
3.15 	for the waste incinerator and steam heating facility which
3.16 	supports the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center, and which
3.17 	may come into effect as a result of the incinerator and facility
3.18 	being closed by the city of Fergus Falls, are hereby waived.

3.19 	Sec. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 3.20 	This act is effective the day following final enactment.