To be eligible for the program, a project must benefit Minnesota's shippers and receivers by improving or developing a commercial navigation facility or its components. Eligible projects include dock and terminal repair, capital improvement to a commercial navigation facility, supporting equipment directly related to loading or off-loading cargo to or from a vessel, disposal facility construction or repair, and dredging to open a new commercial navigation facility.
Eligible projects must be located on Minnesota's Lake Superior shoreline or on the shoreline of Minnesota's commercially navigable portions of the Mississippi, Minnesota, and St. Croix rivers where vessels take on or discharge commercial cargo or passengers; where commercial freight, passenger, or military vessels are built or repaired; where vehicle- or passenger-carrying ferry service operates; or where commercial fishing vessels unload fish or are headquartered.
Minn. R. agency 175, ch. 8895, pt. 8895.0300
Statutory Authority: MS s 457A.05