1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to waters; appropriating money for River Watch program.
1.3 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.4 	Section 1. RED RIVER OF THE NORTH RIVER WATCH PROGRAM; 
1.5 	APPROPRIATION.
 1.6 	$150,000 in fiscal year 2018 and $150,000 in fiscal year 2019 are appropriated from the 
1.7 	clean water fund to the commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency for a grant to the 
1.8 	Red River Watershed Management Board to enhance and expand the existing water quantity, 
1.9 	quality, and watershed monitoring and watershed education activities of River Watch in the 
1.10 	Minnesota schools in the Red River of the North basin. The Red River Watershed 
1.11 	Management Board must:
1.12 	(1) provide an equal match for this appropriation; and
1.13 	(2) by February 15, 2019, report to the commissioner and the chairs and ranking minority 
1.14 	members of the senate and house of representatives committees and divisions with jurisdiction 
1.15 	over environment and natural resources finance and policy and the clean water fund on the 
1.16 	expenditure of these funds.