SF 3477

as introduced - 85th Legislature (2007 - 2008) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to capital improvements; authorizing the issuance of state bonds;
appropriating money for grants to mitigate sewer inflow and infiltration in the
metropolitan area.

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

Section 1. new text begin SEWER INFLOW AND INFILTRATION MITIGATION;
APPROPRIATION.
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new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Appropriation. new text end

new text begin $14,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
fund to the Metropolitan Council for grants to cities within the metropolitan area as
defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.121, subdivision 2, for capital improvements to
municipal wastewater collection systems to reduce the amount of inflow and infiltration to
the Metropolitan Council's metropolitan sanitary sewer disposal system. To be eligible for
a grant, a city must be identified by the Metropolitan Council as a contributor of excessive
inflow or infiltration and must be subject to the Metropolitan Council's inflow and
infiltration surcharge. Grants from this appropriation will be awarded for up to 50 percent
of the cost to mitigate inflow and infiltration in the publicly owned municipal wastewater
collection systems. Grants must be awarded based on applications from eligible cities that
identify eligible capital costs and include a timeline for inflow and infiltration mitigation
construction, under guidelines established by the Metropolitan Council.
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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 act from the bond
proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an
amount up to $14,000,000 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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Sec. 2. new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE.
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new text begin This act is effective the day following final enactment.
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