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as introduced - 86th Legislature (2009 - 2010) Posted on 02/09/2010 01:37am

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A bill for an act
 relating to capital investment; authorizing the sale of state bonds; appropriating
money for flood hazard mitigation in the city of Saint Vincent; amending Laws
2005, chapter 20, article 1, section 7, subdivision 2; Laws 2008, chapter 179,
section 7, subdivision 3.

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

Section 1.

Laws 2005, chapter 20, article 1, section 7, subdivision 2, is amended to read:


Subd. 2.

Flood Hazard Mitigation Grants

 27,000,000

For the state share of flood hazard
mitigation grants for publicly owned capital
improvements to prevent or alleviate flood
damage under Minnesota Statutes, section
103F.161.

The commissioner shall determine project
priorities as appropriate based on need.

This appropriation includes money for
the following projects: Ada, Austin,
Breckenridge, Canisteo Mine, Cannon
Falls, Crookston, Dawson, East Grand
Forks, Grand Marais Creek, Granite
Falls, Green Meadow Dam, Inver Grove
Heights, Little McDonald Lake, Malung,
Manston Slough, Minneapolis, Montevideo,
Oakport, Palmville, Roseau River, St.
Louis Park, new text begin Saint Vincent, new text end Two River Ross
Impoundment, Warren, and Whiskey Creek.

$2,000,000 is for Austin for identified
capital improvement projects, and any
other authorized federal or state flood
mitigation projects in the area designated
under Presidential Declaration of Major
Disaster, DR-1569, whether included in the
original declaration or added later by federal
government action. The area currently
included in DR-1569 includes territory
within the counties of Dodge, Faribault,
Freeborn, Martin, Mower, Olmsted, and
Steele.

$175,000 is for the state share of a grant to
the city of Cannon Falls for predesign and
design of capital improvements to alleviate
flooding caused by runoff from the bluffs and
the flooding of the Little Cannon River and
the Cannon River.

For any project listed in this subdivision that
is not ready to proceed or does not expend all
the money allocated to it, the commissioner
may allocate that project's money to a project
on the commissioner's priority list.

To the extent that the cost of a project in Ada,
Austin, Breckenridge, Dawson, East Grand
Forks, Granite Falls, Montevideo, Oakport
Township, Roseau, new text begin Saint Vincent, new text end or Warren
exceeds two percent of the median household
income in the municipality multiplied by the
number of households in the municipality,
this appropriation is also for the local share
of the project.

There is no local share required for the
Canisteo Mine project.

For grants for Roseau River wildlife
management area, Palmville, and Malung,
the state share must be $3 for each $1 of
nonstate contribution.

Notwithstanding the grant expiration date of
June 30, 2002, the commissioner of natural
resources shall extend until June 30, 2007,
the expiration date of a grant made to the
city of Stillwater under Minnesota Statutes,
section 103F.161, used to match certain
federal appropriations for flood hazard
mitigation.

Sec. 2.

Laws 2008, chapter 179, section 7, subdivision 3, is amended to read:


Subd. 3.

Flood Hazard Mitigation Grants

33,900,000

For the state share of flood hazard
mitigation grants for publicly owned capital
improvements to prevent or alleviate flood
damage under Minnesota Statutes, section
103F.161.

The commissioner shall determine project
priorities as appropriate, based on need.

This appropriation includes money for the
following projects:

(a) Ada

(b) Agassiz Valley

(c) Area II of the Minnesota River Basin

(d) Austin

(e) Bois de Sioux Watershed District, North
Ottawa project

(f) Breckenridge

(g) Brandt-Angus

(h) Browns Valley

$3,900,000 is from the general fund for the
Browns Valley project.

(i) Crookston

(j) Canisteo Mine

$3,500,000 is for a grant to the Western
Mesabi Mine Planning Board to construct a
conveyance system, and other betterments to
accommodate water level and outflow control
of the water level in the Canisteo mine pit
in Itasca County. This appropriation does
not require a local match. The commissioner
of natural resources shall be responsible to
maintain the betterments after completion of
the project.

(k) Dawson

(l) Granite Falls

(m) Hay Creek-Norland

(n) Inver Grove Heights

(o) Malung

(p) Montevideo

(q) Moorhead

(r) Oakport Township

(s) Roseau

new text begin (t) Saint Vincent
 new text end

The Roseau project includes the state share
of land acquisition, engineering and design,
and bridge construction costs for the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers East Diversion
Flood Control Project, which will protect the
city of Roseau from recurring flooding.

(t) Southeast Minnesota

(u) Stillwater

(v) Sweded Grove Lake

(w) Wild Rice River Watershed District,
Becker Dam project

For any project listed in this subdivision
that the commissioner determines is not
ready to proceed or does not expend all the
money allocated to it, the commissioner may
allocate that project's money to a project on
the commissioner's priority list.

To the extent that the cost of a project in Ada,
Breckenridge, Browns Valley, Crookston,
Dawson, Granite Falls, Montevideo, Oakport
Township, new text begin Saint Vincent, new text end or Roseau exceeds
two percent of the median household income
in the municipality multiplied by the number
of households in the municipality, this
appropriation is also for the local share of the
project.

Sec. 3. new text begin FLOOD HAZARD MITIGATION, SAINT VINCENT.
new text end

new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Appropriation. new text end

new text begin $2,500,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
fund to the commissioner of natural resources for a flood hazard mitigation grant under
Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.161, to the city of Saint Vincent for phases three and
four of its levee project. To the extent that the cost of the project exceeds two percent of
the median household income in the municipality multiplied by the number of households
in the municipality, this appropriation is also for the local share of the project.
 new text end

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 subdivision 1 from
the bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the
state in an amount up to $2,500,000 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.
 new text end

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
 new text end