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  Minnesota’s Nutrient Reduction Plans

  A number of Minnesota agencies are working to reduce nutrient levels in lakes and streams, ensuring healthier waters for current residents, people downstream, and future generations. Nine agencies (Metropolitan Council Environmental Services, Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources, Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture, Minnesota Dept. of Employment and Economic Development, Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, University of Minnesota Extension, Minnesota Dept. of Health) have pooled their resources to strengthen and coordinate their existing efforts. Together, these agencies will seek input from stakeholders, identify successful efforts, and develop a statewide strategy to reduce nutrients in Minnesota waters. Each month, these agencies highlight a project that shows how Minnesotans are working to reduce nutrients in their waters. Example Project: Conservation drainage benefits farmers, water quality. Through the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR), a pilot project in Kandiyohi County is demonstrating how conservation drainage can help farming and help water quality. Traditional systems drain farm fields in the spring and fall to facilitate planting and harvest. However, this subsurface drainage can also take away water during the growing season when crops need the moisture. Subsurface drainage can also impact water quality by carrying nitrate and soluble phosphorus into water bodies. This pilot project will provide producers in the Middle Fork Crow River watershed and around the region with an opportunity to learn about the benefits of drainage water management by seeing the system in action. Conservation drainage allows farmers to manage drainage, letting water go during wet periods and holding it back during dry periods. They can also coordinate drainage with fertilizer applications to minimize the impact to water quality. Funding sources included a Clean Water Fund Competitive Grant from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment). For more information, visit the BWSR website (http://www.bwsr.state.mn.us/projects/index.html).

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  Why is soil testing required if I am having an internal lining inspection on my UST?

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  DEQ to hold second meeting in Evangeline Parish to protect drinking water - March 26, 2015

  The DEQ Drinking Water Protection Team needs you! There will be a second meeting for the Evangeline Parish Drinking Water Protection Program, and it is not too late to get involved.

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  How is the Gulf Hypoxic Zone Measured?

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  Environmental Trading Network

  The ETN is dedicated to sharing information related to the development and implementation of successful water quality trading programs and other market-based strategies for achieving healthy, sustainable ecosystems. It is the only national clearinghouse for key policy and regulatory issues, and transferable water quality trading program design elements. The ETN is an international clearinghouse for information on water quality trading projects and other environmental markets. The ETN has led or participated in a variety of market-based environmental market projects since its inception. In the Great Lakes, these projects focused on issues of water quality and water quantity and how markets or market-like mechanisms could be used to help maintain the balance between use and protection of the resource (see Water Quality Trading and Water Quantity Management). More recently, it has primarily focused on accumulating and posting up-to-date information that is relevant to water quality trading program development in the U.S. and internationally. High level information is also posted for other environmental markets focused on wetland and habitat banking including current information on credit stacking.

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  How can the public participate in the decision?

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  How do We Regulate Toxic Air Pollution?

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  What are Source Water Protection Areas and How Are They Delineated?

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  ERIC Variance

  Variance for Late ERIC Submittal

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  Municipal Sewage Assistance

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  DEQ offers free workshops on air permitting and emissions - October 16, 2014

  The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is offering four free training sessions around the state to help the public understand the DEQ air permitting process and the permitting of air emissions

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  State-USEPA Nutrient Innovations Task Group

  The initial concept for a joint State-EPA review of both existing and innovative approaches to nutrient management was introduced at the 2008 annual summer meeting of the ASIWPCA. Further discussions occurred in October 2008 at EPA's Water Division Directors meeting which included EPA regional and headquarters water managers as well as senior program managers representing ASIWPCA and the ASDWA. At the October meeting, State and EPA surface water and drinking water program managers agreed to form an ad hoc Nutrient Innovations Task Group to identify and frame key nutrient issues, questions, and options on how to improve and accelerate nutrient pollution prevention and reduction at the state and national level. In the report, the Task Group presents a summary of scientific evidence and analysis that characterizes the scope and major sources of nutrient impacts nationally. The report also considers the tools currently used under existing federal authority and presents options for new, innovative tools to improve control of nutrient pollution sources. Finally the Task Group presents findings and suggests next steps needed to better address nutrient pollution.

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  Underground Storage Tank (UST) Registrations

  Find information and resources related to Underground Storage Tank (UST) Registrations. Includes contacts, what need to be submitted, and how to submit fees.

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  What is the risk of living with radon in our home?

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  Invoices & Accounts Receivables

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  How long does it take to process a payment request?

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  TMDL