2. State facilities.__The Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of General Services shall develop by rule site selection criteria for state office buildings, state courts and other state civic buildings that serve public clients and customers, whether owned or leased by the State, that give preference to priority locations, while ensuring safe, healthy, appropriate work space for employees and clients and accounting for agency requirements.__Preference must be given to priority locations in the following order:__service center downtowns, service center growth areas and downtowns and growth areas in other than service center communities.__If no suitable priority location exists, the facility must be located in accordance with subsection 1.__Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II-A.

3.__Capital investments that are not growth-related.__ When awarding grants or assistance for capital investments or undertaking its own capital investment programs other than for projects listed under section 4301, subsection 5-B, a state agency shall give preference to a municipality that receives a certificate of consistency under section 4348 or that has adopted a comprehensive plan and implementation strategies consistent with the goals and guidelines of this subchapter over a municipality that does not obtain the certificate or finding of consistency within 4 years after receipt of the first installment of a financial assistance grant or rejection of an offer of financial assistance.

4.__Application.__This section applies to state capital investments made after June 30, 2000.

Sec. 8. 30-A MRSA §4354, sub-§1, ķA, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. A, §45 and Pt. C, §10, is amended to read:

A. For the purposes of this subsection, infrastructure facilities include, but are not limited to:

(1) Waste water collection and treatment facilities;

(2) Municipal water facilities;

(3) Solid waste facilities;