1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for predesign and design of 
1.3 	an environmental learning center in Crosby Farms Regional Park; authorizing 
1.4 	the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. CROSBY FARMS REGIONAL PARK; ST. PAUL
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $3,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.8 	fund to the Metropolitan Council for a grant to the city of St. Paul for predesign and 
1.9 	design of an environmental learning center and adjacent site development in Crosby 
1.10 	Farms Regional Park. The project will integrate environmental education, river access, 
1.11 	and river-based and nature-based recreation, along with increasing safe access to and 
1.12 	awareness by the public of the Mississippi River. This project continues the design and 
1.13 	implementation of the Great River Passage Master Plan, that will eventually connect all 
1.14 	17 miles of the Mississippi riverfront in St. Paul. This appropriation does not require 
1.15 	a nonstate contribution.
1.16 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the 
1.17 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue 
1.18 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $3,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
1.19 	the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
1.20 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.21 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.