A bill for an act
relating to transportation; directing inclusion of a project on U.S. Highway 169 in
Department of Transportation's ten-year capital highway investment plan;
appropriating money.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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(a) In the next update to the Department of Transportation's ten-year capital highway
investment plan, the commissioner of transportation must incorporate as a ten-year priority
the improvement of marked U.S. Highway 169 from a two-lane undivided highway to a
four-lane divided highway for the remaining eight-mile segment of Cross Range Expressway
from Taconite to Pengilly.
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(b) $95,000 in fiscal year 2021 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner
of transportation to be used for cost estimating, environmental permitting, and preliminary
engineering needed for the U.S. Highway 169 completion project described in paragraph
(a). This is a onetime appropriation and is available until June 30, 2023.
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This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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