Also, included in this year's bonding bill is 28 million dollars for the Minnesota Steel Project - a 1-point-six billion dollar steel making plant to be built near Nashwauk.

There's also 3-point-five million dollars to help deal with an overflow problem at the Canisteo mine pit in Bovey.

And three million dollars for forest legacy efforts.

Chris Buckley has more on Iron Range projects affected by the bonding bill.

House Majority leader Tony Sertich of Chisholm called the end result bittersweet.

He says he's pleased the region's biggest project will be getting funding because it will create the most jobs and have the biggest impact on the local economy.

But he's disappointed about line-item vetoes from the governor on other important long term projects.

Like a 5 million dollar project to build an addition at mesabi community colleges Eveleth campus... and upgrade the heating and air conditioning there.

The addition would house the college's millwright program... which is currently in an off campus building.

Provost Tina Royer says it's a proposal they've been working on for the last five years.

"What it would do is provide students with the full college experience, and save the college operating expenses because we would save money by not having to pay the lease and other expenses associated with having that program off campus."

She says the addition would improve a program that continues to play a vital role in the local economy... at projects like Minnesota steel.

"It's a program that extremely popular right now because there's that kind of need for that kind of worker.

We are cautiously hopeful there might be some rewriting of some of the projects so we remain hopeful and if something doesn't happen this year, we're certainly going to put something up for the next bonding bill."

Other cuts include half a million dollars for a business park in Floodwood, 250-thousand dollars for the Hibbing memorial arena, and 750-thousand dollars for infrastructure and plumbing at the Saint Louis county fair grounds in Chisholm.

That's something Representative Sertich says has been promised for the last ten years, and he called those vetoes petty.

Meantime, there's still six weeks left in the session, and this is something they'll be taking a look at during that time... he says as long as there's days, there's opportunities.

For Range 11, I'm Chris Buckley.

Representative Sertich says the veto for the business park in Floodwood is particularly disappointing because they already had a business looking to move in.