1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for metropolitan 
1.3 	municipalities inflow and infiltration grants; authorizing the sale and issuance of 
1.4 	state bonds.
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. $10,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.8 	fund to the Metropolitan Council for grants to municipalities within the metropolitan  area, 
1.9 	as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.121, subdivision 2, for capital improvements 
1.10 	in municipal wastewater collection systems to reduce the amount of inflow and infiltration 
1.11 	to the Metropolitan Council's metropolitan sanitary sewer disposal system. Grants from 
1.12 	this appropriation are for up to 50 percent of the cost to mitigate inflow and infiltration in 
1.13 	the publicly owned municipal wastewater collection systems. To be eligible for a grant, a 
1.14 	municipality must have been identified by the council as a contributor of excessive inflow 
1.15 	and infiltration in the metropolitan disposal system or have a measured flow rate within 
1.16 	20 percent of its allowable council-determined inflow and infiltration limits. The council 
1.17 	must award grants based on applications from municipalities that identify eligible capital 
1.18 	costs and include a timeline for inflow and infiltration mitigation construction, pursuant 
1.19 	to guidelines established by the council.
1.20 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the 
1.21 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue 
1.22 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $10,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
1.23 	the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
1.24 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

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