Bill > HF1700

This bill appropriates $9 million from the bond proceeds fund to the Commissioner of Natural Resources for a grant to the city of Carver to restore the Carver levee, which protects an important historic district from Minnesota River flood waters. The project includes predesign, design, engineering, land acquisition, and construction to raise the height of the levee, construct internal drainage, establish maintainable setbacks, and achieve FEMA certification. The city of Carver will provide $2.15 million in non-state matching funds, and the bill recognizes the $1.2 million the city has already spent on reconstructing internal drainage and a new lift station. The bill also authorizes the Commissioner of Management and Budget to sell and issue up to $9 million in state bonds to provide the appropriated funds.