Minnesota Session Laws - 1993, Regular Session

  
    Laws of Minnesota 1993 

                        CHAPTER 147-H.F.No. 185 
           An act relating to utilities; prohibiting state 
          permits for construction of certain hydropower 
          facilities on the bluffs of the Mississippi river; 
          proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
          chapter 216B. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
     Section 1.  [216B.245] [PUMP AND STORE HYDROPOWER 
FACILITIES; PROHIBITION.] 
     A state agency may not issue a permit for the construction 
of a facility for generating electricity if the facility would 
be located on top of the bluffs along the Mississippi river and 
would pump water from any portion of the river, store the water 
on top of the bluffs, and release the water at a later time to 
generate the electricity. 
     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
     Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor May 11, 1993 
    Signed by the governor May 13, 1993, 2:56 p.m.