25.1285.01001
Title.02000
Adopted by the Energy and Natural
Resources Committee
Sixty-ninth
January 31, 2025
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Mitskog, Kempenich, Kiefert, Martinson, Nelson, Stemen
Senators Kessel, Weber
A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 23.1-07 and a new subsection to
section 23.1-07-06 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to a wastewater infrastructure
grant program and the duties of the department of environmental quality; and to provide an
appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 23.1-07 of the North Dakota Century Code is created
and enacted as follows:
Wastewater infrastructure grant program.
1.The department shall award wastewater infrastructure grants to eligible entities
identified in subsection 2 to upgrade, replace, or construct infrastructure for a
wastewater collection system, wastewater disposal system, or wastewater treatment
plant.
2.Cities, counties, townships, water resource districts, recreation service districts, and
water districts operating wastewater systems in the state may receive a grant under
this section for an eligible project, subject to the availability of funds.
3.An eligible wastewater system must be in compliance with current wastewater
regulations unless the project will return the system to compliance. Eligible projects
may not include operations and maintenance costs.
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4.The department may not award a grant in excess of sixty percent of the total cost of a
project and shall ensure no community receives a grant for more than one project per
biennium .
SECTION 2. A new subsection to section 23.1-07-06 of the North Dakota Century Code is
created and enacted as follows:
Administer the wastewater infrastructure grant program.
SECTION 3. APPROPRIATION - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY -
WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS - STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND
IMPROVEMENTS FUND - ONE -TIME FUNDING. There is appropriated out of any moneys in
the strategic investment and improvements fund in the state treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of $50,000,000, or so much of the sum as may be necessary, to the
department of environmental quality for the purpose of providing wastewater infrastructure
grants, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027. No more than
$12,500,000 may be awarded for a project. Of the funding appropriated in this section, at least
$12,500,000 must be awarded to cities with a population less than five thousandtwelve
thousand five hundred, based on the most recent federal decennial census. If less than
$12,500,000 has been awarded to cities with a population less than five thousandtwelve
thousand five hundred by April 1, 2027, the department may award the remaining funds to other
eligible projects. The funding provided in this section is considered a one-time funding item.
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