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MPCA Authorized Spending by Program

This Web page is a work in progress. Efforts continue not only to improve the content of the site, but also to increase overall financial transparency within the Agency. We welcome your feedback. To provide comments and suggestions about the MPCA’s transparency efforts, send an e-mail to Nancy Miller at nancy.miller@state.mn.us.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) authorized budget for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 is $362.8 million. The MPCA spends its funds through programs organized into five main categories as illustrated in the graph below. Each program category is tied to the Agency Strategic Plan.

FY2012-13 Budgeted Expenditures by Program

FY2012-13 Budgeted Expenditures by Program

Overall: $362.8 million

Air Program: $28.6 million

Priorities:

  • Implementing air quality point source permitting, compliance and enforcement
  • Developing and implementing strategies to reduce air pollution from small and mobile sources; ozone and particulate matter; and regional and global air pollutants such as mercury, regional haze and emissions that contribute to climate change
  • Monitoring air quality, tracking the Air Quality Index (AQI)

Regulatory Expenses, Performance Management and Web Resources:

Land Program: $90.1 million

Priorities:

  • The land program budget is large because it contains funding for several large clean-up projects, such as Washington County Landfill.
  • Funding primarily from Remediation Fund

Regulatory Expenses, Performance Management and Web Resources:

*Environmental Assistance/Cross Media: $88.3 million

Priorities:

  • Contains activities integrating work effort across water, air or land media
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Environmental assessment and review
  • Mercury reduction initiatives
  • Set standards

Performance Management and Web Resources:

  • EACM budget and performance management is integrated across the media programs involved in specific projects. Overall performance based on the MPCA Strategic Plan is available for review in the PDF Document Performance Management Spreadsheet (p-f4-03)
  • EACM Web Resources (in development)

Administrative Support: $41.8 million

Priorities:

  • Includes a range of activities common to state agencies: Commissioner’s Office, Communication, Human Resources, Information Systems, and Accounting and Financial Management

Performance Management and Web Resources:

Water Program: $114.0 million

Priorities:

  • 33 percent of the Agency’s staff are found in this program and many of the agency’s priority programs fall in this area.
  • Activities associated with impaired waters are one of agencies highest priorities.
  • New Clean Water Amendment funds added more than $50 million to the water program

Regulatory Expenses, Performance Management and Web Resources:

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