1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to higher education; providing supplemental financing to the University 
1.3 	of Minnesota for the Natural Resources Research Institute; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 	$10,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 is appropriated from the general fund to the Board of 
1.7 	Regents of the University of Minnesota for the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) 
1.8 	for a water and mineland remediation lab expansion in Duluth and a new mineral processing 
1.9 	and metallurgy lab in Coleraine. This is a onetime appropriation.