CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON H.F. No. 2700

Section 1. Capital Improvement Appropriations summary.

Section 2. University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Duluth, Crookston, Morris, and Twin Cities campuses; asset preservation and building and classroom design, construction, and renovation funding provided.

Section 3. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities; asset preservation and building and classroom design, construction, and renovation funding provided. Alexandria Technical College, Anoka Ramsey Community College-Coon Rapids, Dakota County Technical College, Hennepin Technical College-Eden Prairie and Brooklyn Park, Lake Superior College, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis community and Technical College, Minnesota State Community Technical College, Minnesota State University-Mankato and Moorhead, Minnesota West Community Technical College-Canby, NHED Mesabi Range Community and Technical College-Eveleth and Virginia, North Hennepin Community College, Ridgewater Community Technical College, South Central College-Faribault, Southwest Minnesota State University, St. Cloud University, and St. Cloud Technical College included.

Section 4. Education; Independent School District No. 38, Red Lake, construction and renovation funding provided.

Section 5. Minnesota State Academies; Academy for the Blind and South Central College of Faribault asset preservation and independent living housing funding provided.

Section 6. Perpich Center for the Arts Education; Alpha Building demolition and storage building construction funding provided.

Section 7. Natural Resources; asset preservation, flood mitigation, groundwater monitoring, land acquisition, development, and improvement, RIM critical habitat match, forest conservation and reforestation, shade tree program, state park and trail rehabilitation, land and regional trail acquisition, construction, and development, trail connection improvements, bridge replacement, bluff stabilization, and campground expansion funding provided.

Section 8. Pollution Control Agency; closed landfill cleanup, waste transfer facility, and material recovery facility funding provided.

Section 9. Board of Water and Soil Resources; RIM conservation reserve acquisition and wetland replacement funding provided.

Section 10. Minnesota Zoological Garden; Minnesota Zoo asset preservation and Heart of the Zoo design and construction funding provided.

Section 11. Administration; Capitol campus security, Governor���s residence renovation, cooperative local facilities, veterans, firefighters, and police memorial funding provided.

Section 12. Amateur Sports Commission; National Sports Super Rink, National Volleyball Center, and Northwestern Minnesota Regional Sports Center funding provided.

Section 13. Military Affairs; asset preservation, life safety improvements, facility ADA compliance, armory renovation, and troop support facility funding provided.

Section 14. Public Safety; emergency training center, fire training facility, and Princeton public safety facility funding provided.

Section 15. Transportation; bridge replacement and rehabilitation, greater Minnesota transit, rail service improvement and extension , railroad track rehabilitation, warning devices replacement, port development, airport, truck station, maintenance facility, and training center funding provided.

Section 16. Metropolitan Council; Transit Capital Improvement Program, wastewater collection system, parks and trails improvement and construction funding provided.

Section 17. Health; hospital facility improvements funding provided.

Section 18. Human Services; asset preservation, early childhood learning, child protection facilities, memorials, sex offender program treatment facilities expansion and study funding provided.

Section 19. Veterans Affairs; asset preservation, veterans homes design, construction, and remodeling funding provided.

Section 20. Corrections; asset preservation, ARMER radio system migration and correctional facilities upgrades funding provided.

Section 21. Employment and Economic Development; water line loop, entrepreneurship and technology business incubator construction, Innovative Business Development Public Infrastructure Grant Program, water distribution system expansion, Headwaters Science Center design, Potter Center for the Arts construction, Duluth Zoo asset preservation, cultural, civic center, event facilities, and hall construction and expansion, water infrastructure construction and bioscience business development funding provided.

Section 22. Public Facilities Authority; clean water and drinking water revolving fund match funding provided, and wastewater infrastructure funding provided.

Section 23. Minnesota Housing Finance Agency; housing development funding provided.

Section 24. Minnesota Historical Society; asset preservation and Oliver H. Kelley Farm Historic funding provided.

Section 25. Bond Sale Expenses; commissioner of management and budget bond sale expenses from bond proceeds fund and trunk highway fund.

Section 26. Bond Sale Authorization; money appropriated in this act provided from bond proceeds fund, maximum effort school loan fund, transportation fund, and trunk highway fund proceeds account.

Section 27. Cancellations and bond sale authorizations reduced for: Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Administration; property acquisition, Human services, CAPRA, Administration, health and agriculture laboratory, Minnesota state academies, veterans homes board, Phalen Boulevard, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board, Minnesota correctional facilities, Institute of Nanotechnology, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Transportation, Agriculture, storm sewers, and disaster relief.

Sections 28-31. Report on Expenditure of Bond Proceeds

Section 32. Utilities companies permitted to cross state-owned lands.

Section 33. Recycling construction and demolition waste from state buildings requirement added.

Section 34. Public improvement projects construction and major remodeling final plans and specifications cannot be made until presented appropriate committees. Demolition or decommissioning of some projects exempt from requirement.

Section 35. Cooperative Local Facilities Grants; grant authorization, match, and amounts provided.

Section 36. Camp Ripley/Veterans State Trail established.

Section 37. Red River basin flood mitigation projects grant requirements.

Section 38. Reinvest in Minnesota reserve program funding may not be used for environmental regulatory or wetland mitigation purposes.

Section 39. Innovative Business Development Public Infrastructure Grant Program established and account created, and innovative business defined.

Section 40. Commissioner of transportation grant criteria rulemaking provided.

Section 41. Commissioner of transportation program administration rulemaking provided.

Section 42. Early childhood programs, nurseries, or parenting time centers grant authority provided.

Section 43. Early childhood programs grant priority provided.

Section 44. Bond issue procedure modified.

Section 45. Nonprofit housing bonds authorization modified.

Section 46. Red Rock corridor transit way funding provided.

Section 47. Bioscience development; Trunk Highway 36 and Rice Street in Ramsey County included.

Section 48. Asset preservation for academies spending modified.

Section 49. Koochiching Renewable Energy Clean Air Project provisions modified.

Section 50. Red Rock corridor transit way funding provided.

Section 51. Hibbing Wastewater Treatment Facilities grant use modified.

Section 52. Itasca County public infrastructure grant money allowed to be used by the Itasca County Regional Railroad Authority and the Nashwauk Public Utilities Commission.

Section 53. State road construction provisions modified.

Section 54. Minnesota State Academies technology center funding provided.

Section 55. Mississippi River Aquatic Invasive Species Barrier renovation and construction allowed.

Section 56. Minnesota River Trail provisions modified.

Section 57. Itasca County steel plant infrastructure grant authority expanded.

Section 58. Old Cedar Avenue Bridge renovation provided.

Section 59. Minneapolis Veterans Home campus Building 9 demolition provisions modified.

Section 60. Lake Vermillion State Park public access and use restrictions modified.

Section 61. Lake Vermillion State Park land acquisition requirements modified.

Section 62. Intercity passenger rail projects use of appropriation modified.

Section 63. Commissioner of management and budget authorized to schedule sale of state general obligation bonds.

Section 64. St. Cloud Technical College lease revenue payment provisions modified.

Section 65. Law repealed.

Section 66. Act effective day following enactment.