Legislative reports and fact sheets

Each year, the MPCA works with the Governor's Office, legislators, other state agencies, interest groups, and trade organizations to propose changes in law that will enhance environmental protection. Fact sheets on various initiatives or topics of controversy or interest will be posted on this page as they are completed.

2023

Legislative reports

• 3M Settlement annual report and spending plan for FY2023 (lrc-pfc-3sy23)
• The air we breathe - 2023 (lraq-1sy23)
• Reduction of PFAS (lrc-pfc-4sy23)
• NPDES/SDS municipal permits (lrwq-wwprm-1sy23)
• Rulemaking docket and record (lrp-mmrule-1sy23)
• 2022 residential well sampling for PFAS compounds (lrc-pfc-1sy23)
• Clean Water Fund appropriations for SSTS (lrp-f-1sy23)
• Minnesota’s contaminated sites biennial report (lrc-s-1sy23)
• 2023 biennial greenhouse gas emissions reduction report (lraq-2sy23)

  Greenhouse gas emissions inventory: 2005 to 2020
• 3M Settlement biannual water quality and sustainability account expenditures report (lrc-pfc-2sy23)

  (Feb. 2023)
• Pig’s Eye Dump Task Force 2023 annual report (lrc-clf-1sy23)
• Annual permitting efficiency report - 2023 (lrp-gen-1sy23)

Legislative fact sheets

Clean Water Fund (CWF)

• CWF chloride reduction efforts (leg-sy23-33)
• CWF Clean Water Council (leg-sy23-32)
• CWF Great Lakes restoration project (leg-sy23-31)
• CWF groundwater assessment (leg-sy23-28)
• CWF river and lake monitoring and assessment (leg-sy23-26)
• CWF wastewater/stormwater TMDL (leg-sy23-27)
• CWF watershed restoration and protection (TMDL) (leg-sy23-29)

Budget

• General fund request for water programs (leg-sy23-03)
• Greenstep Cities (leg-sy23-05)
• Technical staffing to implement Minnesota’s PFAS blueprint (leg-sy23-06)
• Innovative solutions for managing pollutants (leg-sy23-07)
• Contaminated site management (leg-sy23-08)
• Air appropriation increase (leg-sy23-09)
• Hazardous Waste and Solid Waste Program staffing (leg-sy23-10)
• Waste prevention and reduction grants and loans (leg-sy23-11)
• Solid Waste Permitting Program update (leg-sy23-12)
• Emergency readiness response staffing level increase (leg-sy23-13)
• Technical assistance contractor for tribal governments (leg-sy23-14)
• Industrial Stormwater and Subsurface Sewage Treatment System Program staffing (leg-sy23-15)
• County Feedlot and SSTS Program increase (leg-sy23-18)
• Climate pathways analysis (leg-sy23-19)
• Increasing data management and data quality capacity (leg-sy23-20)
• Climate resources for environmental review (leg-sy23-21)
• Drinking water protection and PFAS response (leg-sy23-22)
• Environmental automation modernization (leg-sy23-23)
• Air compliance equipment maintenance (leg-sy23-34)
• Increase joint initiative funding (leg-sy23-35)
• Accelerating pollution prevention at small businesses (leg-sy23-36)
• Minnesota GreenCorps investment (leg-sy23-39)
• Financial planning and analysis: governance, risk, and compliance management (leg-sy23-49)
• Solar energy equipment end-of-life management study (leg-sy23-50)

Policy

• Sanitary sewer overflows notification (leg-sy23-54)

Policy and budget

• Operating adjustment (leg-sy23-01)
• Enhanced permitting and environmental review coordination (leg-sy23-02)
• Resilient communities grants and technical assistance (leg-sy23-04)
• Industrial facility air toxic and criteria air emission reduction grants (leg-sy23-16)
• PFAS source reduction grants (leg-sy23-17)
• Above ground storage tank fees (leg-sy23-37)
• Cumulative impacts (leg-sy23-38)
• Report changes: 3M Settlement, Pollution, Annual wastewater (leg-sy23-40)
• Greater MN Recycling and Composting Grant package (leg-sy23-41)
• Paint product stewardship updates (leg-sy23-42)
• Uniform tools for Brownfields Program (leg-sy23-43)
• Update Capital Assistance Program (leg-sy23-44)
• Chloride training fee authority (leg-sy23-48)
• Lead and cadmium in children’s products (leg-sy23-53)

Bonding

• Capital Assistance Program overview (leg-sy23-56)
• Red Oaks bonding request (leg-sy23-57)
• Stormwater construction grants (leg-sy23-58)
• Nitrate sensor network (leg-sy23-60)

2022

Legislative reports (2022)

• Inventory of water quality standards projects, 2021-2023 (lrwq-s-1sy22)

  (with Nov. 2022 updates)
• Annual report on obsolete, unnecessary, or duplicative rules (lrp-gen-3sy22)
• lnteragency agreements and intra-agency transfers report (lrp-gen-2sy22)
• 3M Settlement biannual water quality and sustainability account expenditures report (lrc-pfc-2sy22)

  (Feb. 2022)
• 3M Settlement biannual report and spending plan for FY2022 (lrc-pfc-3sy22)

  (Aug. 2022)
• Future wastewater infrastructure needs and capital costs (lrwq-wwtp-1sy22)
  • Appendix 1 - Projects (lrwq-wwtp-1asy22)
  • Appendix 2 - 2022 Clean Water Project Priority List (lrwq-wwtp-1bsy22)
  • Appendix 3 - Sewer service charges and infrastructure age data (lrwq-wwtp-1csy22)

• 2021 residential well sampling for PFAS compounds (lrc-pfc-1sy22)
• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System/State Disposal System permits, water quality standards, and municipalities (lrwq
• Rulemaking docket and record (lrp-mmrule-1sy22)
• Toxics and Pollution Prevention Evaluation Report (lrp-p2s-1sy21)
• 2022 Pollution Report (lrp-ear-1sy22)
• Annual permitting efficiency report - 2022 (lrp-gen-1sy22)