1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to community development; providing for 
  1.3             planning coordination for brownfields cleanup in 
  1.4             certain areas of St. Paul; amending Minnesota Statutes 
  1.5             1996, section 116J.554, subdivision 1. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [CITATION.] 
  1.8      This act is the Great Northern Community Development Act. 
  1.9      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 116J.554, 
  1.10  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.11     Subdivision 1.  [AUTHORITY.] The commissioner may make a 
  1.12  grant to an applicant development authority to pay for up to 75 
  1.13  percent of the cleanup costs for a qualifying site, except the 
  1.14  grant may not exceed 50 percent of the project costs.  The 
  1.15  determination of whether to make a grant for a qualifying site 
  1.16  is within the sole discretion of the commissioner, subject to 
  1.17  the process provided by this section, and available unencumbered 
  1.18  money in the appropriation.  The commissioner's decisions and 
  1.19  application of the priorities under section 116J.555 are not 
  1.20  subject to judicial review, except for abuse of discretion.  
  1.21  Expenditure of money appropriated before the effective date of 
  1.22  this section and available for brownfields cleanup in the 
  1.23  Frogtown/North End area in the city of St. Paul must be 
  1.24  coordinated and reviewed in the manner provided in section 3. 
  1.25     Sec. 3.  [PLANNING; COORDINATION.] 
  2.1      (a) Planning councils in the Frogtown and North End areas 
  2.2   of the city of St. Paul shall coordinate comprehensive planning, 
  2.3   including the community visioning process for the Dale Street 
  2.4   Shops/Maxson Steel sites and other community-based planning 
  2.5   processes, for development and coordination of the projects and 
  2.6   expenditures authorized in section 2 pertaining to the Frogtown 
  2.7   and the North End area of St. Paul. 
  2.8      (b) A committee is created to review projects for which 
  2.9   funds are appropriated under section 2 for consistency with the 
  2.10  comprehensive plan developed under paragraph (a).  This 
  2.11  committee shall consist of one representative appointed by each 
  2.12  of the following entities:  the city of St. Paul, the St. Paul 
  2.13  port authority, the county of Ramsey, the Minnesota department 
  2.14  of transportation, the Minnesota department of trade and 
  2.15  economic development, the St. Paul trades and labor assembly, 
  2.16  and the metropolitan council, and the following representatives 
  2.17  appointed by planning councils in the Frogtown and North End 
  2.18  areas of St. Paul, one business representative from Frogtown, 
  2.19  one business representative from the North End, one Frogtown 
  2.20  representative from the Dale Street Shops/Maxson Steel community 
  2.21  process, one North End representative from the Dale Street 
  2.22  Shops/Maxson Steel community process, and two representatives 
  2.23  each from the Frogtown and North End planning councils. 
  2.24     (c) Planning councils in the Como Park and Midway areas of 
  2.25  St. Paul (including district 12) shall be included in an 
  2.26  advisory capacity and shall be consulted with in the process 
  2.27  established in paragraphs (a) and (b) for the projects planned 
  2.28  and implemented which directly affect the geographic areas in 
  2.29  those planning council districts. 
  2.30     (d) Money appropriated on or after the effective date of 
  2.31  section 2 for projects authorized or described in those sections 
  2.32  is only available upon review and determination by the committee 
  2.33  described in paragraph (b) that the uses proposed are consistent 
  2.34  with comprehensive planning developed and coordinated under 
  2.35  paragraph (a).