1E Creating a rural energy development revolving loan fund to provide financial assistance, through partnership with local owners and communities, in development of community wind energy projects; establishing the rural wind energy development program; requiring the initiative for renewable energy and the environment at the university of Minnesota to make a grant to a nonprofit organization with experience dealing with energy and community wind to design and implement the program to maximize rural economic development and stabilize rural community institutions, including hospitals and schools, by increasing the income of local residents and increasing local tax revenues; specifying certain program assistance criteria; appropriating money to the board of regents of the university of Minnesota for grant purposes and to the commissioner of commerce for the revolving fund
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