1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to capital improvements; authorizing the 
  1.3             issuance of state bonds; appropriating money to 
  1.4             evaluate specific options to alleviate otherwise 
  1.5             certain flooding emanating from the Canisteo Mine in 
  1.6             Itasca County. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.9      $3,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 
  1.10  the commissioner of natural resources for a grant to the Western 
  1.11  Mesabi Mine Planning Board, a joint powers agency under 
  1.12  Minnesota Statutes, section 471.59. 
  1.13     The grant is to be used to evaluate up to ten specific 
  1.14  alternative proposals to alleviate otherwise certain flooding 
  1.15  emanating from the abandoned Canisteo Mine in Itasca County to 
  1.16  determine which proposal is most appropriate to drain the mine 
  1.17  and serve as a model for inevitable future flooding problems 
  1.18  from other abandoned mines. 
  1.19     Sec. 2.  [BOND SALE.] 
  1.20     To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond 
  1.21  proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue 
  1.22  bonds of the state in an amount up to $3,000,000 in the manner, 
  1.23  upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
  1.24  Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota 
  1.25  Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7. 
  1.26     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.1      Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 
  2.2   enactment.