1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for improvements for a 
1.3 	wastewater industrial pretreatment facility and an associated resource recovery 
1.4 	and reuse project in the city of Litchfield.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; WASTEWATER INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT 
1.7 	FACILITY; RESOURCE RECOVERY AND REUSE PROJECT.
 1.8 	(a) $20,000,000 in fiscal year 2025 is appropriated from the general fund to the Public 
1.9 	Facilities Authority for a grant to First District Association, a dairy cooperative located in 
1.10 	the city of Litchfield, for the purposes described in this section. This appropriation is onetime 
1.11 	and is available until the projects are completed or abandoned, subject to Minnesota Statutes, 
1.12 	section 16A.642.
1.13 	(b) $....... of the appropriation in paragraph (a) is to design, engineer, construct, equip, 
1.14 	and furnish a wastewater industrial pretreatment facility in the city of Litchfield. This 
1.15 	appropriation is in addition to the appropriation under Laws 2023, chapter 71, article 1, 
1.16 	section 15, subdivision 7, and is for the same purpose.
1.17 	(c) $....... of the appropriation in paragraph (a) is to design, engineer, construct, equip, 
1.18 	and furnish a resource recovery and reuse facility in the city of Litchfield to reduce the 
1.19 	organic load and suspended solids load delivered from First District Association's cheese 
1.20 	plant to the city of Litchfield's municipal wastewater treatment plant.

1.21 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.