1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a new regional wastewater 
1.3 	treatment facility in Goodhue County.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. NORTH ZUMBRO SANITARY DISTRICT; WASTEWATER 
1.6 	TREATMENT FACILITY.
 1.7 	$70,000,000 is appropriated from the state fiscal recovery fund to the Public Facilities 
1.8 	Authority for a grant to the joint powers sanitary district created pursuant to Minnesota 
1.9 	Statutes, section 471.59, comprising the cities of Zumbrota, Goodhue, Pine Island, and 
1.10 	Wanamingo, to predesign, design, engineer, permit, construct, and equip a new 
1.11 	state-of-the-art regional wastewater treatment facility, to be located in Goodhue County 
1.12 	and to serve as a regional wastewater facility prototype. Additionally, this facility shall 
1.13 	provide wastewater treatment service for the Elk Run settlement lands of the Prairie Island 
1.14 	Indian Community, which shall connect to existing wastewater infrastructure in the city of 
1.15 	Pine Island. This appropriation includes money for improvements and betterments of a 
1.16 	capital nature, including the construction of infrastructure, necessary to connect the new 
1.17 	facility to the communities in the sanitary district and for the facility to serve its intended 
1.18 	purpose. For the purposes of this section, "state fiscal recovery fund" means money received 
1.19 	by the state pursuant to Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act, Public Law 117-2. 
1.20 	This is a onetime appropriation and is available until the project is completed or abandoned, 
1.21 	subject to Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642.

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