How new sales tax will be spent

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ST. PAUL – Money appropriated, along with examples of how it will be spent, for the next two years from a higher sales tax voters approved last November:

Outdoors heritage, $159 million

($71 million not spent)

• Preserve northern Minnesota forest by buying rights to prevent development, $36 million

• Protect and restore wetlands, $21 million

• Protect grassland and prairie areas, $14 million

• Improve game and wildlife habitat, $14 million

  Clean water, $151 million

• Testing water for pollution and related activities, $66 million

• Preventing runoff pollution, $47 million

• Sewage treatment, $33 million

  Parks and trails, $65 million

• State parks, $28 million

• Twin Cities parks, $28 million

• Regional parks, $9 million

  Arts and heritage, $93 million

• Arts education, access, $43 million

• Historical Society, $22 million

• Public broadcasting, children's and science museums, zoos, $14 million

• Regional libraries, $9 million

• Dakota and Ojibwe language preservation, $2 million

• Ethnic and culture programs, $2 million

Source: Minnesota Legislature

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