1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for Itasca County 
1.3 	infrastructure; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds. 
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 	$30,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner 
1.7 	of employment and economic development for a grant to Itasca County for public 
1.8 	infrastructure needed to support a steel plant in Itasca County. Grant money may be used 
1.9 	by Itasca County to acquire right-of-way and mitigate loss of wetlands and runoff of storm 
1.10 	water, to predesign, design, construct, and equip roads and rail lines, and, in cooperation 
1.11 	with municipal public utilities, to predesign, design, construct, and equip natural gas 
1.12 	pipelines, electric infrastructure, water supply systems, and wastewater collection and 
1.13 	treatment systems.

1.14 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.15 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
1.16 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
1.17 	$30,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
1.18 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
1.19 	sections 4 to 7.

1.20 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.21 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.