1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to agriculture; appropriating money for a grant to a centrally located 
1.3 	biomass fuel supply depot.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 	$450,000 is appropriated from the general fund in fiscal year 2008 to the 
1.7 	commissioner of agriculture to make a grant to a joint venture combined heat and power 
1.8 	energy facility located in Scott or LeSueur County for the creation of a centrally located 
1.9 	biomass fuel supply depot with the capability of unloading, processing, testing, scaling, 
1.10 	and storing renewable biomass fuels. The grant must be matched on at least a three-to-one 
1.11 	basis with nonstate funds.