North Dakota lawmakers are in Bismarck for a special session. The two big items on the agenda are redistricting and deciding how to spend $1.1 billion in American Rescue Plan funds. In the last three weeks, North Dakota House and Senate Interim appropriations committees were at work putting together a proposal for COVID relief. Senator Terry Wanzek says the agriculture sector is expected to get funds, including $21 million in loan forgiveness for North Dakota’s ethanol plants. “There was a loan guarantee program from the Bank of North Dakota that helped ethanol plants get operating funds during the COVID pandemic. There’s $42 million left in the loan. We may be able to help them pay off half of that.” There’s money included to fix township and rural roads and also, money being proposed for North Dakota’s State Board of Agricultural Research and Education.
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