SF 2888

as introduced - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 02/15/2022 09:11am

A bill for an act
relating to capital investment; appropriating money for a new regional wastewater
treatment facility in Goodhue County.

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

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