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Clean Water Council BOC Committee Agency Submissions & BOC Follow Agency submissions The following agency submissions are in DRAFT form and have not been approved by Governor Mark Dayton. These agency submissions were requested by the Clean Water Council’s Budget and Outcomes Committee for their consideration as they develop a PRELIMINARY FY14-15 budget recommendation. If you have questions, please contact Council administrator, Jennifer Maleitzke at 651-757-2549 or [email protected]. AGENCY RESPONSES May 1, 2012 Attn: Clean Water Council – Budget and Outcomes Committee c/o Jennifer Maleitzke As requested by the Clean Water Council’s Budget and Outcomes Committee, attached is the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s report on current Clean Water Fund activities, as well as recommendations for the next biennium. The MPCA’s briefing covers a broad range of Clean Water Fund activities. We have also highlighted areas where funds are no longer needed, new needs, and other key changes. Two areas that will be completed by the end of this current fiscal year, therefore funding is no longer needed: • Coal tar stormwater research best management practices • Wastewater treatment monitoring for endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) The MPCA is asking for the same level of funding in the areas of monitoring and TMDL development; however the agency does request Clean Water Funds for the following new FY14-15 activities: • Enhanced county subsurface sewage treatment systems (SSTS) program; a recommended dollar amount is provided • SSTS corrective action support; the agency has no specific recommendation at this time • Two new wastewater positions for TMDL implementation, specifically to support unsewered community needs and effluent limit development • Funding for the Clean Water Council activities as a direct appropriation with no direct recommendation of level of funding • Interagency team will make recommendations regarding civic engagement While the Wild Rice Standards study will be completed in this biennium, we found the need for other research to continue with regard to how facilities are able to meet standards around some of the more difficult to manage pollutants, such as chlorides and nitrogen. This will not be an increase of funding but a redirection of the dollars used to support the Wild Rice Standards study. On behalf of the MPCA, I would like to thank the BOC for their continued support of the MPCA’s activities. The dollars appropriated to the agency are making a difference in the health of Minnesota’s waters. Sincerely, Rebecca J. Flood MPCA Assistant Commissioner Clean Water Council Advising the Legislature and the Governor on state programs to restore and protect Minnesota’s waters. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Clean Water Fund appropriations The following information is preliminary and not approved by the Governor’s office. Activity Actual FY10- Actual FY12-13 Proposed 11 FY14-15 MPCA Continue monitoring & assessment efforts to meet the 10-year cycle. $15.000M $14.800M $15.000M MPCA Red River Watch Program $0.346M $0.200M $0M MPCA St. Croix Watershed Monitoring $0.500M $0M MPCA Wastewater Treatment Monitoring – EDCs $0.896M Completed MPCA Wild Rice study $1.500M $0.000M MPCA TMDL development: Fund TMDL projects and staff. $18.000M $18.800M $18.800M MPCA Clean Water Council Spending Needs + Groundwater assessment: Continue to enhance ambient network, MPCA modeling to support TMDL stressor ID, continued effort to look for CECs in subset of monitoring wells. $2.250M $2.250M $2.250M Groundwater protection: Under consideration: augmenting/accelerating $5M re- MPCA groundwater protection practices, BMP evaluation and implementation, appropriated source water protection support, data access/integration. to DNR $0.000M MPCA EQB I94 study (transfer) - $0.450M $0.000M MPCA Enhanced county inspections/SSTS corrective actions - $1.570M $5.400M MPCA SSTS Corrective Actions + Great Lakes restoration projects in agreement with the U.S. Army Corps MPCA of Engineers, conducting sediment assessments. Requires at least a two dollar non-state local match for every CWF dollar. $0.950M $1.500M $1.500M MPCA Wastewater Beneficial Reuse Grant $4.669M $0.000M Clean Water Partnership: Provides grants to protect and improve the basins and watersheds of Minnesota; provides financial and technical MPCA assistance to study water bodies with non-point source pollution problems, develop action plans to address the problems, and plan implementation to fix the problems. $2.500M $2.000M $2.000M Incorporate civic engagement into new and current Clean Water Fund MPCA watershed projects. (Included in TMDL request) $0.250M $0.000M MPCA Coal tar stormwater research BMP $0.500M Completed TMDL research and database development: Incrementally connect data management systems, and eventually develop a Watershed Portal that MPCA will interface with existing systems to provide staff with a central location for reporting, analysis, and data management of the watershed data. $0.500M $2.300M $2.300M MPCA Interagency water database and portal development + MPCA FY11 Legislative Priority: Nitrate-Nitrogen rule $0.600M $0.000M MPCA Application of Water Standards $1.500M MPCA Stormwater research and guidance. $0.145M $0.800M $0.550 M NPDES wastewater/stormwater TMDL implementation: Staffing costs for MPCA implementation efforts. $1.600M $2.000M Total $47.106M $47.770M $51.800M Legend Monitoring/ Watershed restoration/ Drinking water Nonpoint source Education and Applied research & Point source assessment protection strategies protection implementation civic engagement tool development implementation Page | 1 Clean Water Council Advising the Legislature and the Governor on state programs to restore and protect Minnesota’s waters. Please briefly describe overall progress from activities in FY10-11 and planned progress for FY12-13 by responding to the following questions. Monitoring and assessment: • Please describe progress made toward completing 20 percent of needed statewide assessments in FY10- 11 and planned activities to complete 20 percent of assessments in FY12-13. Please include a brief summary of the MN River study. Statewide monitoring and assessment work is on track to meet the 10-year schedule, at a rate of about 10 percent of the watersheds each year. Intensive watershed monitoring includes biological, chemical, and habitat monitoring at an average of about sixty sites per watershed to assess the water conditions. Assessments determine what waters are impaired, and serve as a basis for further analysis of watershed problems and watershed planning efforts. The percent of the state’s watersheds, where intensive watershed monitoring has occurred, increased to 21 percent in 2009, 30 percent in 2010, and 43 percent in 2011. It will increase to 52 percent in 2012 and 62 percent in 2013. Watershed monitoring and assessment reports are completed and web-posted for five watersheds, with another 13 reports scheduled to be completed by summer 2012, and seven more completed by the end of FY13. We are meeting the program goal of assessing data for each monitored watershed within one year of completion of intensive watershed monitoring. Watersheds with completed intensive watershed monitoring efforts, summer 2012 Page | 2 Clean Water Council Advising the Legislature and the Governor on state programs to restore and protect Minnesota’s waters. Local partners contribute significantly to lake and stream chemistry monitoring through Surface Water Assessment Grants (SWAG). For waters that the PCA seeks local parties to monitor, the percentage actually monitored by local partners has steadily increased over time, reaching 100 percent for both lakes and streams in 2012. While there is no request for additional funding at this time, the program is realizing efficiencies in operations as the work of the program is performed. The program has also focused use of Surface Water Assessment Grants on watersheds currently active in the intensive watershed monitoring cycle. These efficiencies allow for additional efforts needed to expand the major watershed load monitoring network down to the sub watershed level. This load network expansion will have great benefits to water quality modeling and stressor identification work. MN River Study The report “Revisiting the Minnesota River Assessment Project” was completed in May 2011 as required by the legislature. The report compared the current health of biological communities in the Minnesota River Basin to their conditions 10 and 20 years ago. Overall results showed a slight improvement in fish communities and a slight decline in invertebrate communities. The report generated quite a bit of press at its release, and was discussed with the Clean Water Council and the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council at their request. The report is located at: www.pca.state.mn.us/index.php/view-document.html?gid=15821. Page | 3 Clean Water Council Advising the Legislature and the Governor on state programs to restore and protect Minnesota’s waters. • Please describe activities and outcomes from the Red River Watch Program from FY10-11 and planned activities for FY12-13. This was a legislative appropriation to the Red River Watershed Management Board (RRWMB) passed through the MPCA. The RRWMB utilized the International Water Institute to carry out the work. Please see attachment for additional information. • Please describe activities and outcomes from the St. Croix Watershed monitoring efforts from FY10-11. In 2010, the St. Croix River Association (SCRA) received a legislative appropriation of $500,000
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