Funding for sewer projects considered

A bill replenishing the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority (PFA) was heard by the Senate Capital Investment Committee recently. The legislation, authored by Senator Gary Dahms (R‒Redwood Falls), appropriates $167 million in bonding to the PFA, which funds wastewater and sewer projects across Minnesota.

The bill has bipartisan support and received a favorable response from the committee. It was laid over for possible inclusion in the forthcoming bonding bill.

“Communities across Greater Minnesota are struggling to afford needed upgrades to their wastewater and sewer infrastructures.”

“For many of those communities, this funding cannot come too soon,” said Senator Dahms.

“Many of the projects on the state’s priority lists are in our rural communities.

The legislature should help as best it can, and that’s what this legislation does.”

The legislation appropriates $25 million to match federal grants for infrastructure projects related to clean water, along with $55 million for wastewater projects listed on the Pollution Control Agency’s priority list, and $25 million for drinking water projects listed on the Department of Health’s project priority list.

Sen. Gary Dahms

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