1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for local airport improvements 
1.3 	to support the Department of Natural Resources fire-fighting operations; authorizing 
1.4 	the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. NATURAL RESOURCES; FIRE OPERATION AIRPORT 
1.7 	INFRASTRUCTURE.
 1.8 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $2,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund 
1.9 	to the commissioner of natural resources for a grant to the Chisholm-Hibbing Airport 
1.10 	Authority to reconstruct the ramps and staging areas that support the department's fire 
1.11 	fighting response operations at the Range Regional Airport. Any unspent portion of this 
1.12 	appropriation remaining after the completion of the project, upon written notice to the 
1.13 	commissioner of management and budget, is available for a grant to the Brainerd Lakes 
1.14 	Regional Airport Commission, the Bemidji Regional Airport Authority, or both, to design 
1.15 	the replacement of the ramps and staging areas that support the department's fire fighting 
1.16 	response operations at the regional airports in Brainerd and Bemidji.
1.17 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond 
1.18 	proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of 
1.19 	the state in an amount up to $2,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect 
1.20 	prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota 
1.21 	Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

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