1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; changing closed landfill cleanup appropriation 
1.3 	from revenue bond proceeds to user-financed general obligation bond proceeds;
1.4 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2008, sections 115A.908, subdivision 2; 116.155, 
1.5 	subdivision 3; Laws 2008, chapter 179, section 8, subdivision 3; repealing 
1.6 	Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 116.156.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 115A.908, subdivision 2, is amended to 
1.9 	read:
1.10 		Subd. 2.Deposit of revenue. From the Revenue collected under this section, the 
1.11 	amount necessary to make debt service payments on revenue bonds issued under section 
1.12 	116.156 is annually appropriated to the commissioner of finance. Any remaining revenue 
1.13 	collected shallmust be credited to the environmental fund.

1.14 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 116.155, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
1.15 		Subd. 3.Revenues. The following revenues shall be deposited in the general 
1.16 	portion of the remediation fund:
1.17 	(1) response costs and natural resource damages related to releases of hazardous 
1.18 	substances, or pollutants or contaminants, recovered under sections 115B.17, subdivisions 
1.19 	6 and 7, 115B.443, 115B.444, or any other law; 
1.20 	(2) money paid to the agency or the Agriculture Department by voluntary parties 
1.21 	who have received technical or other assistance under sections 115B.17, subdivision 14, 
1.22 	115B.175 to 115B.179, and 115C.03, subdivision 9; 
1.23 	(3) money received in the form of gifts, grants, reimbursement, or appropriation from 
1.24 	any source for any of the purposes provided in subdivision 2, except federal grants; and
2.1 	(4) money received from revenue bonds sold under section 116.156 and placed 
2.2 	in a special bond proceeds account; and
2.3 	(5) interest accrued on the fund.

2.4 	Sec. 3. Laws 2008, chapter 179, section 8, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

2.5
2.6	Subd. 3.Closed Landfill Cleanup Revenue 
Bonds
 				25,000,000
	
2.7 	From the bond proceeds account in the 
2.8 	remediation fund under new Minnesota 
2.9 	Statutes, section 116.156. for capital costs of 
2.10 	cleaning up closed landfills under Minnesota 
2.11 	Statutes, sections 115B.39 to 115B.445. All 
2.12 	debt service on bonds issued to finance this 
2.13 	appropriation must be paid by the Pollution 
2.14 	Control Agency under Minnesota Statutes, 
2.15 	section 16A.643, from revenue credited to 
2.16 	the environmental fund.
2.17 	This appropriation is for capital costs of 
2.18 	environmental response action at qualified 
2.19 	closed landfill facilities in Albert Lea, 
2.20 	Mille Lacs County, Washington County, the 
2.21 	Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, 
2.22 	and other locations as determined by the 
2.23 	commissioner of the Pollution Control 
2.24 	Agency.
2.25 	If the dig and fill option is chosen for 
2.26 	remediation of the Washington County 
2.27 	landfill, the landfill must have a triple liner.
2.28 	By January 15, 2009, the commissioner of 
2.29 	the Pollution Control Agency shall report to 
2.30 	the house and senate Finance Committees 
2.31 	and divisions with jurisdiction over the 
2.32 	environment on whether the remediation 
2.33 	fund needs additional revenue in order to 
2.34 	provide timely cleanup of closed landfills in 
3.1 	the state without depleting the remediation 
3.2 	fund. If the fund needs additional revenue, 
3.3 	the commissioner shall include in the report 
3.4 	recommendations for revenue sources and 
3.5 	amounts that will meet that need.

3.6 	Sec. 4. BOND SALE AUTHORIZATION.
 3.7 	To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond proceeds fund, the 
3.8 	commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
3.9 	$25,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
3.10 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
3.11 	sections 4 to 7.

3.12 	Sec. 5.  REPEALER.
 3.13 	Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 116.156, is repealed.

3.14 	Sec. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 3.15 	This act is effective the day following final enactment.