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LR 2621
Item 1

 
(1) The methodology and criteria for allocating funds
to community speculative industrial building projects;

 
(2) The process through which municipalities and local
development corporations must apply for community
speculative industrial building funds;

 
(3) Rates of interest, the duration of interest
payments and any other terms to which municipalities
and local development corporations must be subject
under this paragraph; and

 
(4) Other matters necessary to the proper
administration of this section.

 
Rules adopted under this paragraph are routine technical
rules pursuant to chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

 
2. Obligations. The municipality or local development
corporation receiving money under this section must:

 
A. Own, or hold on long-term lease, the site for the
project;

 
B. Be responsible for and present evidence to the authority
of its ability to carry out the project as planned;

 
C. Site and maintain the community speculative industrial
building on property that is appropriate to the size and
location of the community speculative industrial building;

 
D. Provide and maintain, with funds other than those
provided by the authority, an adequate access road from a
public highway to the proposed site and provide and maintain
water, sewer and power facilities. The municipality or
local development corporation must be responsible for
plowing out the plant site at all times and for landscaping
the grounds surrounding the building until the building is
occupied by a tenant;

 
E. Comply with applicable zoning, planning and sanitary
regulations in the municipality where the community
speculative industrial building is to be located. A loan
may not be approved and a certificate of approval for the
project or for any subsequent enlargement or addition to the
project may not be issued until the Department of
Environmental Protection has certified to the authority that
all licenses required by the authority have been issued or
that none are required; and


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