HF 3280

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 05/05/2025 07:09 p.m.

A bill for an act
relating to sustainable aviation fuel; requiring studies to estimate costs of producing
sustainable aviation fuel from captured carbon dioxide and green hydrogen;
requiring a report; appropriating money.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin STUDIES; SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL PRODUCTION.
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new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Definitions. new text end

new text begin (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have
the meanings given.
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new text begin (b) "Carbon dioxide capture technology" means a process used to capture carbon dioxide
emissions produced by an industrial facility before they are released to the atmosphere.
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new text begin (c) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency.
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new text begin (d) "Front-end engineering design study" means a study that estimates the cost of various
portions of a project, evaluates potential risks, and establishes construction timelines, before
a fixed-bid quote is developed.
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new text begin (e) "Green hydrogen" has the meaning given in Laws 2023, chapter 60, article 12, section
76, paragraph (b), clause (3).
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new text begin (f) "Jet fuel" has the meaning given in Minnesota Statutes, section 296A.01, subdivision
8.
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new text begin (g) "Metropolitan area" has the meaning given in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.121,
subdivision 2.
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new text begin (h) "Sustainable aviation fuel" means liquid fuel that is derived from gaseous carbon
dioxide and green hydrogen and whose lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions are at least 50
percent less than those of petroleum-based aviation gasoline, aviation turbine fuel, and jet
fuel, as determined by calculations using:
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new text begin (1) the most recent version of Argonne National Laboratory's Greenhouse Gases,
Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Technologies (GREET) model; or
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new text begin (2) the lifecycle methodology for sustainable aviation fuels adopted by the International
Civil Aviation Organization with the agreement of the United States, incorporating induced
land use change values.
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new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Carbon capture; wastewater sludge incineration. new text end

new text begin No later than ...., the
commissioner must contract with an entity with expertise in designing carbon dioxide capture
technology to design infrastructure to capture carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the
incineration of wastewater solids at the Metropolitan Water Resource Recovery Facility in
St. Paul and to transport the carbon dioxide to a facility described in subdivision 3.
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new text begin Subd. 3. new text end

new text begin Study; sustainable aviation fuel production. new text end

new text begin No later than ...., the
commissioner must contract with an entity with relevant expertise to conduct a front-end
engineering design study for constructing a facility in the metropolitan area that is capable
of combining the carbon dioxide captured from the Metropolitan Water Resource Recovery
Facility in St. Paul, as described in subdivision 2, with green hydrogen generated on site to
produce sustainable aviation fuel.
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new text begin Subd. 4. new text end

new text begin Report. new text end

new text begin No later than June 30, 2029, the commissioner must submit a written
report to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with primary
jurisdiction over transportation and environment on the results of the contracts required
under this section, including, at a minimum:
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new text begin (1) the capital and operating costs of:
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new text begin (i) installing the carbon dioxide capture technology designed under subdivision 2;
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new text begin (ii) transporting captured carbon dioxide from the Metropolitan Water Resource Recovery
Facility in St. Paul to the facility designed under subdivision 3;
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new text begin (iii) producing green hydrogen at the facility designed under subdivision 3; and
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new text begin (iv) producing sustainable aviation fuel at the facility designed under subdivision 3;
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new text begin (2) the number of additional workers employed at each of the facilities described in
clause (1); and
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new text begin (3) an estimate of the amount of sustainable aviation fuel that could be produced annually
and the proportion that the amount represents of current and future aviation fuel usage at
the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
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new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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Sec. 2. new text begin APPROPRIATION.
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new text begin $300,000 in fiscal year 2026 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner
of the Pollution Control Agency for the purposes of completing the contracts and report
required under section 1. This is a onetime appropriation and is available through June 30,
2029. The commissioner may use up to five percent of this appropriation for the reasonable
costs of administering section 1.
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