2025 Session Last amended: 2018 session

§ 115B.53 — Water Quality and Sustainability Stakeholders

Plain-Language Summary

The Pollution Control Agency and the Department of Natural Resources must work with a stakeholder group to identify and recommend projects for funding from the water quality and sustainability account created by the 2018 3M settlement. Required stakeholders include the two state agencies, east metropolitan area municipalities, and the 3M Company itself. The commissioners must establish a formal process to accept and evaluate project recommendations from east metro cities and townships.

115B.53 WATER QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY STAKEHOLDERS.

The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency and the commissioner of natural resources must work with stakeholders to identify and recommend projects to receive funding from the water quality and sustainability account under the settlement. Stakeholders include, at a minimum, representatives of the agency, the Department of Natural Resources, east metropolitan area municipalities, and the 3M Company. The commissioners must establish a process to solicit and evaluate the recommendations from municipalities in the east metropolitan area as defined in section 115B.52.

History:

2018 c 204 s 2

History: History:

  2018 c 204 s 2

Practical Notes

East metropolitan area municipalities — including Woodbury, Oakdale, Lake Elmo, Cottage Grove, Newport, and others defined in section 115B.52 — have a guaranteed seat at the table in deciding how 3M settlement money is spent. Cities in the affected area should actively participate in the stakeholder process to ensure local water quality priorities are reflected in project selection. The 3M Company is also a required participant, which means the company that caused the contamination has an ongoing role in how remediation funds are directed.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes