1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to natural resources; appropriating money for grants demonstrating the 
1.3 	beneficial reuse of wastewater.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. BENEFICIAL REUSE OF WASTEWATER GRANT PROGRAM.
 1.6 	$2,500,000 in fiscal year 2010 is appropriated from the clean water fund to the 
1.7 	commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency for grants under Minnesota Statutes, 
1.8 	section 116.195, to political subdivisions for up to 50 percent of the costs to predesign, 
1.9 	design, and implement capital projects that use treated municipal wastewater instead of 
1.10 	groundwater from drinking water aquifers, in order to demonstrate the beneficial use 
1.11 	of wastewater.