new text begin To the Board of Regents of the University
of Minnesota for the purposes specified in
this section.
new text end

new text begin To be spent in accordance with Minnesota
Statutes, section 135A.046.
new text end

new text begin For the initiative for renewable energy
and the environment to design, construct,
furnish, and equip a national solar testing
and certification laboratory to test, rate, and
certify the performance of equipment and
devices that utilize solar energy for heating
and cooling air and water and for generating
electricity.
new text end

new text begin To the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota
State Colleges and Universities for the
purposes specified in this section.
new text end

new text begin For the purposes specified in Minnesota
Statutes, section 135A.046, including safety
and statutory compliance, building envelope
integrity, mechanical systems, and space
restoration.
new text end

new text begin To complete design of and to construct,
furnish, and equip an addition to the Health
and Science Center and to renovate existing
spaces.
new text end

new text begin To construct, furnish, and equip shop space
for the industrial mechanical technology
and carpentry programs. This appropriation
includes funding for renovation of existing
space for ADA compliance.
new text end

new text begin To construct, furnish, and equip renovation
of two floors of technology-enhanced
classrooms and academic offices in the power
plant building. This appropriation includes
money to demolish the power plant annex to
enable the new construction.
new text end

new text begin Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section
136F.60, subdivision 5, the net proceeds
of the sale or disposition of the Aviation
Training Center in Winona operated by
Minnesota State College - Southeast
Technical, after paying all expenses incurred
in selling the property and retiring any
remaining debt attributable to the project,
are appropriated to the board of trustees
of the Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities for use in a capital project at the
Winona campus and need not be paid to the
commissioner of finance, as would otherwise
be required by Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.695, subdivision 3.
new text end

new text begin When the sale is complete and the sale
proceeds have been applied as provided in
this subdivision, Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.695, no longer applies to the property
and the property is no longer state bond
financed property.
new text end

new text begin To construct, furnish, and equip an addition
to the Center for Business and Technology
and to renovate the center for classrooms and
related space.
new text end

new text begin To design, construct, furnish, and equip
renovation of classroom and academic
space. Campuses may use nonstate money
to increase the size of the projects. This
appropriation may be used only at the
following campuses: Central Lakes College,
Brainerd; Minnesota State Community
Technical College, Moorhead and Wadena;
Minnesota West Community Technical
College, Pipestone; Northland Community
Technical College, Thief River Falls; Pine
Technical College, Pine City; and Rochester
Community Technical College, Rochester.
new text end

new text begin (a) The board shall pay the debt service on
one-third of the principal amount of state
bonds sold to finance projects authorized by
this section, except for higher education asset
preservation and replacement, and except
that, where a nonstate match is required, the
debt service is due on a principal amount
equal to one-third of the total project cost,
less the match committed before the bonds
are sold. After each sale of general obligation
bonds, the commissioner of finance shall
notify the board of the amounts assessed for
each year for the life of the bonds.
new text end

new text begin (b) The commissioner shall reduce the
board's assessment each year by one-third of
the net income from investment of general
obligation bond proceeds in proportion to the
amount of principal and interest otherwise
required to be paid by the board. The board
shall pay its resulting net assessment to the
commissioner of finance by December 1 each
year. If the board fails to make a payment
when due, the commissioner of finance
shall reduce allotments for appropriations
from the general fund otherwise available
to the board and apply the amount of the
reduction to cover the missed debt service
payment. The commissioner of finance
shall credit the payments received from the
board to the bond debt service account in
the state bond fund each December 1 before
money is transferred from the general fund
under Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.641,
subdivision 10.
new text end

new text begin (a) Upon substantial completion of a project
authorized in this section and after written
notice to the commissioner of finance, the
Board of Trustees must use any money
remaining in the appropriation for that
project for HEAPR under Minnesota
Statutes, section 135A.046. The Board
of Trustees must report by February 1 of
each even-numbered year to the chairs
of the house and senate committees with
jurisdiction over capital investment and
higher education finance, and to the chairs of
the house Ways and Means Committee and
the senate Finance Committee, on how the
remaining money has been allocated or spent.
new text end

new text begin (b) The unspent portion of an appropriation
for a project in this section that is complete,
is available for higher education asset
preservation and replacement under this
subdivision, at the same campus as the
project for which the original appropriation
was made, and the debt service requirement
under subdivision 8 is reduced accordingly.
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, applies
from the date of the original appropriation to
the unspent amount transferred.
new text end

new text begin To the commissioner of natural resources
for the purposes specified in this section.
The commissioner must allocate money
appropriated in this section so as to maximize
the use of all available federal money from
the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, and any other
federal funding.
new text end

new text begin The appropriations in this section are
subject to the requirements of the natural
resources capital improvement program
under Minnesota Statutes, section 86A.12,
unless this section or the statutes referred
to in this section provide more specific
standards, criteria, or priorities for projects
than Minnesota Statutes, section 86A.12.
new text end

new text begin To the extent possible, any prairie restoration
conducted with money appropriated in this
section must plant vegetation or sow seed
only of ecotypes native to Minnesota, and
preferably of the local ecotype, using a high
diversity of species originating from as
close to the restoration site as possible, and
protect existing native prairies from genetic
contamination.
new text end

new text begin For the renovation of state-owned facilities
operated by the commissioner of natural
resources that can be substantially completed
in calendar year 2009, as determined by
the commissioner of natural resources,
including renovation of buildings for energy
efficiency, roof replacements, replacement
of well and water treatment systems, road
resurfacing, major culvert replacement and
erosion control, water access rehabilitation,
trail resurfacing and widening, and bridge
replacement and rehabilitation.
new text end

new text begin For the state share of flood hazard
mitigation grants for publicly owned capital
improvements to prevent or alleviate flood
damage under Minnesota Statutes, section
103F.161.
new text end

new text begin This appropriation includes money to
maximize federal funds for projects in Ada,
Breckenridge, and Roseau. Any remaining
money from this appropriation is for the
following projects as prioritized by the
commissioner based on need:
new text end

new text begin (a) Agassiz Valley
new text end

new text begin (b) Albert Lea
new text end

new text begin (c) Austin
new text end

new text begin (d) Bois de Sioux Watershed District, North
Ottawa project
new text end

new text begin (e) Crookston
new text end

new text begin (f) Granite Falls
new text end

new text begin (g) Hay Creek-Norland
new text end

new text begin (h) Inver Grove Heights
new text end

new text begin (i) Manston Slough
new text end

new text begin (j) Oakport Township
new text end

new text begin (k) Shell Rock River Watershed
new text end

new text begin (l) Spring Brook
new text end

new text begin (m) St. Vincent
new text end

new text begin (n) Two Rivers
new text end

new text begin For any project listed in this subdivision
that the commissioner determines is not
ready to proceed or does not expend all the
money allocated to it, the commissioner may
allocate that project's money to a project on
the commissioner's priority list.
new text end

new text begin To the extent that the cost of a project in
Ada, Breckenridge, Crookston, Granite Falls,
Oakport Township, St. Vincent, or Roseau
exceeds two percent of the median household
income in the municipality multiplied by the
number of households in the municipality,
this appropriation is also for the local share
of the project.
new text end

new text begin To the commissioner of transportation
for the purposes specified in this section.
The commissioner must allocate money
appropriated in this section so as to maximize
the use of all available federal money from
the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, and any other
federal funding.
new text end

new text begin This appropriation is from the bond proceeds
account in the state transportation fund
to match federal money and to replace
or rehabilitate local deficient bridges as
provided in Minnesota Statutes, section
174.50.
new text end

new text begin Political subdivisions may use grants made
under this subdivision to construct or
reconstruct bridges, including:
new text end

new text begin (1) matching federal-aid grants to construct
or reconstruct key bridges;
new text end

new text begin (2) paying the costs of preliminary
engineering and environmental studies
authorized under Minnesota Statutes, section
174.50, subdivision 6a;
new text end

new text begin (3) paying the costs to abandon an existing
bridge that is deficient and in need of
replacement, but where no replacement will
be made; and
new text end

new text begin (4) paying the costs to construct a road
or street to facilitate the abandonment
of an existing bridge determined by
the commissioner to be deficient, if the
commissioner determines that construction
of the road or street is more economical than
replacement of the existing bridge.
new text end

new text begin For the rail service improvement program
to be spent for the purposes set forth
in Minnesota Statutes, section 222.50,
subdivision 7.
new text end

new text begin To implement capital improvements and
betterments for commuter and passenger rail
projects identified in the statewide freight
and passenger rail plan, under Minnesota
Statutes, section 174.03, subdivision 1b.
new text end

new text begin For a grant to the Minnesota Valley Regional
Railroad Authority to rehabilitate up to 95
miles of railroad track from Norwood-Young
America to Hanley Falls. A grant under this
subdivision is in addition to any grant, loan,
or loan guarantee for this project made by
the commissioner under Minnesota Statutes,
sections 222.46 to 222.62.
new text end

new text begin For grants under Minnesota Statutes, chapter
457A. Any improvements made with the
proceeds of these grants must be publicly
owned.
new text end

new text begin To the commissioner of administration, or
another named agency, for the purposes
specified in this section. The commissioner
must allocate money appropriated in this
section so as to maximize the use of all
available federal funding.
new text end

new text begin For asset preservation improvements and
betterments of a capital nature at Department
of Human Services facilities statewide, in
accordance with Minnesota Statutes, section
16B.307.
new text end

new text begin For infrastructure for phase 2 of the
expansion of the Moose Lake Sex Offender
Treatment Facility.
new text end

new text begin To the commissioner of human services for
grants to construct and rehabilitate facilities
for programs under Minnesota Statutes,
section 256E.37.
new text end

new text begin To the commissioner of administration
for the purposes specified in this section.
The commissioner must allocate money
appropriated in this section so as to maximize
the use of all available federal funding.
new text end

new text begin For asset preservation improvements and
betterments of a capital nature at veterans
homes statewide, to be spent in accordance
with Minnesota Statutes, section 16B.307.
Of this, $600,000 is for HVAC replacement
and foundation waterproofing in building
4 at the Minneapolis Veterans Home, and
$350,000 is for roof replacement projects at
the Hastings Veterans Home.
new text end

new text begin To design, construct, furnish, and equip
a 90-bed facility in Kandiyohi County to
provide residential mental health nursing
services to veterans, as described in section
47. This appropriation is not available until
the commissioner determines that sufficient
funds to complete the project have been
committed from nonstate sources.
new text end