1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to appropriations; appropriating money to the 
  1.3             University of Minnesota for an anaerobic digestion 
  1.4             demonstration unit; authorizing state bonds. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [ANAEROBIC DIGESTION DEMONSTRATION UNIT.] 
  1.7      (a) $....... is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 
  1.8   the University of Minnesota to construct and install a Minnesota 
  1.9   designed modular demonstration unit for anaerobic digestion of 
  1.10  farm animal waste. 
  1.11     (b) $....... is appropriated in fiscal year 1997 from the 
  1.12  general fund to the University of Minnesota for research to 
  1.13  determine the best management practices to use with anaerobic 
  1.14  digestion to meld their use into the production system to reduce 
  1.15  costs and enhance the environment, and to demonstrate and 
  1.16  evaluate the unit's effectiveness. 
  1.17     Sec. 2.  [BOND SALE.] 
  1.18     To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the 
  1.19  bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance, on request of 
  1.20  the governor, shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an 
  1.21  amount up to $....... in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
  1.22  the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 
  1.23  16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 
  1.24  4 to 7.