1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to energy; appropriating money for biomass facility grant.
1.3 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.4 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.5 	$4,500,000 is appropriated from state energy program funds received by the Office 
1.6 	of Energy Security under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to 
1.7 	the commissioner of commerce for a grant to the recipient of a loan approved by the Iron 
1.8 	Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board, as required by Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.9 	298.227, paragraph (b), for construction of a facility that produces biomass fuels for use in 
1.10 	industrial furnaces and boilers.