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SF 781 Senate Long Description

3E Relating to capital investments; authorizing spending to acquire and better public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature with certain conditions; appropriating money to the University of Minnesota board of regents for higher education asset preservation and replacement (HEAPR) and the Bell museum of natural history, to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) board of trustees for HEAPR, the Lake Superior community and technical college health and science center, Mesabi Range community and technical college at Eveleth carpentry and industrial mechanical technology and shops, the Metropolitan State university smart classroom center, the southeast Minnesota state college technical aviation training center, the North Hennepin community college center for business and technology, and systemwide initiatives classroom renovation, providing for debt service payment and unspent appropriations, appropriating money to independent school district #38, Red Lake, to the department of natural resources (DNR) for statewide asset preservation, flood hazard mitigation grants, and for dam renovation and removal, to the pollution control agency (PCA) for closed landfill cleanup, to the Minnesota zoological garden for asset preservation and improvement, to the amateur sports commission for the Blaine national sports center and the Rochester national volleyball center, to the department of military affairs for asset preservation, to the department of transportation (DOT) for local bridge replacement and rehabilitation, Minnesota valley railroad track rehabilitation, the northern lights express, the Twin Cities to Chicago high-speed rail line, port development assistance, the Alexandria aircraft surveillance facility, the Bigfork airport runway, and the Duluth airport terminal, to the metropolitan council for the Bottineau Boulevard transit way, Cedar Avenue bus rapid transit,, the Central, I-94, Robert Street, Rush Line, and Southwest corridor transit ways, the Union Depot, metropolitan regional parks capital improvements, the Coon Rapids 85th Avenue bicycle trail, the Grand Rounds bridge, lighting, and roadway, Heritage Village park, the Inver Grove Heights swing bridge, Lower Afton Road trail, Rice Creek north regional trail, Springbrook nature center, and Upper Landing shoreline protection, to the department of human services (DHS) for asset preservation and early childhood learning and child protection facilities, to the department of veterans affairs for asset preservation and veterans cemeteries, to department of corrections for asset preservation, to department of employment and economic development (DEED) for the redevelopment account, the Big Lake regional ice center, Mankato women's hockey exposition center, Minneapolis orchestra hall and Schubert performing arts and education center, Olmsted county steam line extension, St. Cloud civic center expansion, St. Paul Asian pacific cultural center and the Gillette children's hospital addition and to Minnesota historical society for historic sites asset preservation, authorizing and providing for the issuance of state bonds; requiring governor funding recommendations on agency requests to be submitted to legislature, specifying information to accompany state assistance requests; requiring waste management motor vehicle transfer fee revenue to be credited to the environmental fund; removing revenue bond sales money from pollution control agency (PCA) remediation fund general portion deposit requirement; allowing the sale of public libraries funded with state bond proceeds under certain conditions; allowing public postsecondary education capital budget expenditures for HEAPR projects to include building energy efficiency improvements using current best practices; increasing state colleges and universities (MnSCU) board of trustees revenue bond aggregate principal maximum; adding new authorized uses for previous appropriations to department of corrections for the Stillwater facility segregation unit, historical society for the historic Fort Snelling museum and visitor center, to metropolitan council for Old Cedar Avenue bridge, to MnSCU for Owatonna college and university center and St. Cloud state university Brown science hall renovation, to department of administration for state capitol building restoration, to department of public safety for the Marshall Minnesota emergency response and industry training center; prohibiting cancellation of a previous department of employment and economic development (DEED) grant to Worthington for the former Campbell soup factory soil contamination remediation; modifying a previous appropriation by allowing MnSCU to use nonstate money for Metropolitan State university law enforcement training center; requiring metropolitan council to convey the Apple Valley transit station and real property in Dakota county to the Minnesota Valley transit authority; repealing Minnesota management and budget (MMB) (finance) capital project grants to political subdivision evaluation and pollution control agency (PCA) closed landfill cleanup revenue bonds
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