Minnesota Legislature
SF 1790
as introduced - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 08/03/2021 10:52am
Current Version - as introduced
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A bill for an act
relating to capital investment; amending an appropriation for flood hazard
mitigation for the Toelle Coulee in Traverse County; amending Laws 2020, Fifth
Special Session chapter 3, article 1, section 7, subdivision 3.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Laws 2020, Fifth Special Session chapter 3, article 1, section 7, subdivision 3,
is amended to read:
Subd. 3.Flood Hazard Mitigation
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(a) 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.
(b) To the extent practical, levee projects shall
meet the state standard of three feet above the
100-year flood elevation.
(c) Project priorities shall be determined by
the commissioner as appropriate, based on
need and consideration of available leveraging
of federal, state, and local funds.
(d) This appropriation may be used for projects
in the following municipalities: Afton, Austin,
Breckenridge, Browns Valley, Carver, Delano,
Faribault, Golden Valley, Halstad, Hawley,
Hendrum, Inver Grove Heights, Jordan,
Montevideo, Moorhead, Newfolden,
Nielsville, Owatonna, Round Lake Township
in Jackson County, Sioux Valley Township
in Jackson County, and Waseca.
(e) This appropriation also may be used for
projects in the following watershed districts:
Bois de Sioux Watershed District, Buffalo-Red
River Watershed District, Cedar River
Watershed District;Lower Minnesota River
Watershed District, Middle Snake Tamarac
Rivers Watershed District, Prior Lake-Spring
Lake Watershed District, Red Lake Watershed
District, Roseau River Watershed District,
Shell Rock River Watershed District, Two
Rivers Watershed District, Upper Minnesota
River Watershed District, and Wild Rice River
Watershed District.
(f) This appropriation may also be used for a
project in the Southern Minnesota Rivers
Basin Area II.
(g) For any project listed in this subdivision
that the commissioner determines is not ready
to proceed, does not have the nonstate match
committed, or does not expend all the money
granted to it, the commissioner may allocate
that project's unexpended money to a priority
project on the commissioner's list.
(h) Notwithstanding paragraph (c), $2,000,000
of this appropriation is for flood hazard
mitigation for the Toelle Coulee in deleted text begin the city of
Browns Valleydeleted text end new text begin Traverse Countynew text end .
(i) To the extent practicable and consistent
with the project, recipients of appropriations
for flood control projects in this subdivision
shall create wetlands that are eligible for
wetland replacement credit to replace wetlands
drained or filled as the result of repair,
reconstruction, replacement, or rehabilitation
of an existing public road under Minnesota
Statutes, section 103G.222, subdivision 1,
paragraphs (l) and (m).
(j) To the extent that the cost of a project
exceeds two percent of the median household
income in a municipality or township
multiplied by the number of households in the
municipality or township, this appropriation
is also for the local share of the project.
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This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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