1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; authorizing spending to acquire and better 
1.3 	public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature; 
1.4 	appropriating money for flood hazard mitigation projects in the Wild Rice 
1.5 	Watershed District; authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; WILD RICE WATERSHED DISTRICT, FLOOD 
1.8 	HAZARD MITIGATION PROJECTS.
 1.9 		Subdivision 1.Felton Ditch sub basin. $3,000,000 is appropriated from the bond 
1.10 	proceeds fund to the commissioner of natural resources for a grant to the Wild Rice 
1.11 	Watershed District for flood hazard mitigation projects within the Felton Ditch sub basin, 
1.12 	including engineering and design work, acquisition of approximately 1,200 acres, and 
1.13 	construction and development of the area for floodwater storage. This appropriation is not 
1.14 	available until the commissioner of finance determines that at least an equal amount is 
1.15 	available from nonstate sources.
1.16 		Subd. 2.Wild Rice flood hazard prevention predesign. $1,000,000 is appropriated 
1.17 	from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of natural resources for a grant to 
1.18 	the Wild Rice Watershed District for predesign of the federally preferred alternative of 
1.19 	flood hazard prevention work on the Wild Rice River, including geotechnical studies and 
1.20 	ecosystem restoration analysis and implementation of setback levees and channel/riparian 
1.21 	corridor restoration along approximately 23 miles of the river. This appropriation is not 
1.22 	available until the commissioner of finance determines that at least an equal amount is 
1.23 	available from nonstate sources.
2.1 		Subd. 3.South Branch storage initiative. $1,500,000 is appropriated from the 
2.2 	bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of natural resources for a grant to the Wild 
2.3 	Rice Watershed District for the first year of development of upper basin sites to provide 
2.4 	floodwater storage and lower off-channel flood storage to control floodwaters from an 
2.5 	approximately 250 square mile drainage area. This appropriation is not available until 
2.6 	the commissioner of finance determines that at least an equal amount is available from 
2.7 	nonstate sources.

2.8 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 2.9 	To provide the money appropriated by section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
2.10 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
2.11 	$5,500,000 in the manner, on the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
2.12 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
2.13 	sections 4 to 7.

2.14 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.15 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.