1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; authorizing the issuance of state bonds; 
1.3 	appropriating money for a renewable energy clean air project in Koochiching 
1.4 	County.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. KOOCHICHING COUNTY CLEAN AIR PROJECT.
 1.7 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $10,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.8 	fund to the Pollution Control Agency for a grant to Koochiching County to prepare a site 
1.9 	for and to design, construct, and equip a plasma torch gasification facility that converts 
1.10 	municipal solid waste into energy and slag, reducing the need to dispose of the waste in a 
1.11 	landfill. The facility must be located in the city of International Falls.
1.12 	This appropriation is not available until the commissioner has determined that at 
1.13 	least an equal amount has been committed to the project from nonstate sources.
1.14 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond 
1.15 	proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an 
1.16 	amount up to $10,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by 
1.17 	Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, 
1.18 	article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.19 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.20 	This act is effective the day following final enactment.