1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money
1.3 	for connections to the Lewis and Clark Rural Water
1.4 	System; authorizing state bonds.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	$2,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to
1.8 	the Public Facilities Authority for grants to the city of
1.9 	Luverne, city of Worthington Public Utilities, Lincoln-Pipestone
1.10 	rural water system, and Rock County rural water system to
1.11 	acquire land, predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip
1.12 	one or more water transmission and storage facilities to
1.13 	accommodate the connection with the Lewis and Clark Rural Water
1.14 	System, Inc. that will serve southwestern Minnesota.
1.15 	The grants shall be awarded to projects approved by the
1.16 	Lewis and Clark Joint Powers Board.
1.17 	This appropriation is available only to the extent matched
1.18 	by at least $1 of local money paid to the Lewis and Clark Rural
1.19 	Water System, Inc. for each $1 of state money to be used to
1.20 	reimburse costs incurred on eligible projects.
1.21 	This appropriation is the first phase of the state share
1.22 	for the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System project as defined in
1.23 	the federal Lewis and Clark Rural Water System Act of 2000.

1.24 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.25 	To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond
2.1 	proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue
2.2 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $2,000,000 in the manner,
2.3 	upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed in Minnesota
2.4 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota
2.5 	Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

2.6 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.7 	This act is effective the day following final enactment.