SF 4965

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 04/08/2026 09:26 a.m.

A bill for an act
relating to capital investment; appropriating money for regional solid waste
management facilities for Prairie Lakes Municipal Solid Waste Authority;
authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.

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

Section 1. new text begin PRAIRIE LAKES MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY.
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new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Appropriation. new text end

new text begin $7,267,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund
to the Pollution Control Agency for a grant under the solid waste capital assistance grant
program under Minnesota Statutes, section 115A.54, to Otter Tail County, acting on behalf
of the Prairie Lakes Municipal Solid Waste Authority joint powers board comprised of
Clay, Becker, Wadena, Otter Tail, and Todd Counties, to predesign, design, and construct
an ash recovery and recycling waste processing plant to divert ash from landfills into road
construction material and recover ferrous and nonferrous metals and to predesign, design,
and construct a waste transfer station to receive municipal solid waste and demolition waste
for transfer to regional facilities.
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new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Bond sale. new text end

new text begin To provide the money appropriated in this section from the bond
proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of
the state in an amount up to $7,267,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect
prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota
Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
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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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