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Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,105,000
Fund Source

This project supports activities by MPCA Watershed Division staff that provide technical assistance, project oversight, coordination, outreach and other agency activities associated with assessing, listing and conducting TMDL studies throughout the State of Minnesota. Project also includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with TMDL work at the MPCA.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$206,335
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$209,633
Fund Source

MPCA technical assistance & guidance provided to Clean Water Partnership grant program which provides funding for grants that prevent impairments and degradation of lakes, rivers, streams and groundwater.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,150,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,599,678
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) uses a watershed-oriented approach to assess surface water quality and define restoration and protection measures. Each of Minnesota’s 81 major watersheds is assessed intensively every 10 years, based on a staggered schedule that addresses, on average, eight watersheds per year. To increase the amount of data directly available to the public online, and to make internal operations more efficient, the MPCA started a multi-year Watershed Data Integration Project (WDIP).

Statewide
Recipient
MInnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
Fund Source

This project will evaluate best management performance and effectiveness to support meeting total maximum daily loads; develop standards and incorporate state of the art guidance using minimal impact design standards as the model; and implement a knowledge and technology transfer system across local government, industry, and regulatory sectors.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$162,243
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$171,456
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$154,632
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$394,892
Fund Source

Staffing support to evaluate the performance of existing stormwater infiltration sites, as identified in the Minimal Impact Design Standards (MIDS) project. Monitor the range of existing infiltration devices in Minnesota and compare to design criteria, maintenance records, and quantify year-round infiltration rates. Develop and refine pretreatment options and standards for municipal stormwater treatment.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,105,849
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,173,501
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,309,905
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,028,498
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,481,766
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,866,668
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,513,679
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,289,006
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,231,367
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,583,937
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,503,333
Fund Source

This project supports activities by Minnesota Pollution Control (MPCA) Watershed Division staff that provide technical assistance, project oversight, coordination, outreach and other agency activities associated with assessing, listing and conducting Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies throughout the State of Minnesota. Project also includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with TMDL work at the MPCA.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,351,892
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,528,098
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,477,821
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,529,246
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,483,925
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,284,366
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,956,185
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,413,432
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,971,189
Fund Source

This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Environmental Outcomes staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities within the described priority watersheds. Lake Monitoring: Lakes are monitored for nutrients, clarity and other information to provide the data needed to assess the aquatic recreation use support. Biological and Water Chemistry Stream Monitoring: Monitoring to assess the conditions of streams in each watershed.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,114
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,816
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$182,975
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$386,663
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$262,427
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$215,721
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$288,794
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$279,451
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$372,553
Fund Source

Agencies and stakeholders are working together to clean up contaminated sediments and restore aquatic habitat to the estuary in the St. Louis River Area of Concern within the Great Lakes Basin.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$691,911
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$831,629
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$755,618
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$764,768
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$743,626
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$821,313
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$772,185
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$874,046
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$887,226
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$883,851
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,092,756
Fund Source

Staffing support for the development of permits that provide for implementation of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements at wastewater facilities and stormwater permittees.

Statewide
Recipient
MInnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$567,922
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$620,426
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$693,557
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$632,044
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$671,209
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$677,851
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,617
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$591,495
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$628,687
Fund Source

This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Environmental Outcomes staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, fieldwork, data management, and interpretation expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities. The ambient groundwater monitoring network describes the current condition and trends in Minnesota's groundwater quality.

Statewide
Recipient
MInnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$853,501
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,205,491
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$798,114
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$719,141
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$235,001
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$164,683
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,292
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$215,932
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,681
Fund Source

Support for the subsurface sewage treatment system (SSTS)  program administered by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). The MPCA offers grants to counties for SSTS program administration and special projects to improve SSTS compliance rates, and assistance for low-income homeowners with needed SSTS upgrades.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,940
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,346
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,631
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$46,084
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,424
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,427
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$68,378
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$285,633
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$298,802
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$342,506
Fund Source

The Clean Water Council was created through the Clean Water Legacy Act (Minn. Stat. Ch 114D) which was signed into law June 2, 2006. The council’s role is to advise on the administration and implementation of the Clean Water Legacy Act. See the Council’s FY18-19 Clean Water Fund and Policy Recommendations Report (December 1, 2016). The 28-member Clean Water Council (Council) represents organizations with a major role in achieving clean water, enabling consensus building and coordination on a wide array of issues critical to the people of Minnesota.

Statewide
Recipient
Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
Cass
Crow Wing
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$298,871

Multimedia support enriches the Minnesota Historical Society's programs, exhibitions and websites with innovative, high-quality multimedia productions. Through audio, video, interactive and immersive productions, the program allows the Society to capture and present the stories of Minnesotans and document the impact of Legacy history projects. Rich media content enhances students"" and teachers"" experiences with the Society's curricular resources, engages visitors of all ages at the Society's museums and historic sites and reaches audiences everywhere through web and mobile delivery.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$185,973
A multimedia group has been created to support the development of educational and informational video productions including online curriculum for 6th grade history, the commemoration of the Civil War, WWI, and more.
Statewide
Recipient
Clay County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,250

To create a mural that embodies the activities and spirit of the Clay County Fair. The mural will be painted on the back side of the grandstand, which is one of the first things a fair visitor sees.

Clay
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,350

Partners: The Minnesota Association of Museums, Minnesota Productions of Twin Cities Public Television

Statewide
Recipient
Lake Street Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To install three bi-lingual heritage discovery walks along Lake Street in Minneapolis.

Hennepin
Recipient
Dakota City Heritage Village
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,725
To install an air-handling unit for greater control over the museum environment in order to preserve documentary evidence of Dakota County history
Dakota
Recipient
Lake of the Woods County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,600
To hire a qualified HVAC engineer to evaluate the museum environment of the Lake of the Woods County Museum
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Lac qui Parle County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,052
To hire a qualified museum lighting professional to develop a museum lighting plan.
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Hennepin County Library
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
To preserve original music scores created by Minnesotans and enable broader access through reproductions.
Hennepin
Recipient
Bois de Sioux Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$333,200
Fund Source

The Mustinka River winds through five counties in west central Minnesota and empties into Lake Traverse, a border waters lake with excellent fishing and recreational opportunities. For several years, sections of the river have been negatively impacted from too much soil/sediment eroding from the land and washing away into the water. Excess sediment degrades aquatic habitat and feeds algae blooms.
This project continues a 2011 Clean Water Fund collaborative effort to develop a plan to reduce the amount of sediment washed into the river.

Big Stone
Grant
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Emmons & Oliver Resources (EOR)
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,329
Fund Source

This project will address United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) comments on the Preliminary Draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) comments on the pre-public notice draft Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report, and produce Public Notice Draft TMDL study and Public Notice Draft WRAPS report ready for public review and comment.

Big Stone
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Traverse
Recipient
Friends of B'nai Abraham Synagogue
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,995
To hire a qualified professional to restore the last two of thirteen stain glass windows in the B'nai Abraham Synagogue, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and now used as a community center.
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Northfield (Northfield Hospital and Clinics)
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified professional to produce a manuscript on the history of the Northfield City Hospital.
Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
Scott
Recipient
Rushford-Peterson Schools
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,995

To prepare a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Rushford Ementary and High School.

Fillmore
Recipient
Nobles County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To hire a qualified historian to complete an evaluation to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for the Worthington National Guard Armory.

Nobles
Murray
Rock
Recipient
Douglas County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,809

To construct a log building that will house Dakota and Ojibway artifacts during the Douglas County Fair. The building will be open to the public at no charge and it will be staffed and operated with the support of the Runestone Museum and the Douglas County Historical Society. Speakers will talk about Native American history, share their own family artifacts, provide instrumental and vocal performances, and be available to converse with visitors as they view the collection.

Douglas
Recipient
MN DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,325,000
Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Statewide
Recipient
Anoka County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,000
Fund Source

County-wide. Hire Conservation Corps Minnesota to implement natural resource rehabilitation and facility development projects.

Anoka
Recipient
Dakota County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
Fund Source

County-wide. Provide labor and materials to manage natural resources throughout Dakota County's regional park system.

Dakota
Recipient
Ramsey County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

County-wide. Host MN Conservation Corps crew to engage youth in natural resource management projects.

Ramsey
Recipient
Anoka County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$140,000
Fund Source

Continue the Conservation Corps of MN contract for work throughout the regional parks & trails system.

Anoka
Recipient
Dakota County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$161,000
Fund Source

Natural resource management, stewardship, restoration and improvements per master plans.

Dakota
Recipient
Ramsey County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

Continue contracts with Conservation Corps of Minnesota (CCM) to engage youth of the community in natural resource management projects throughout Ramsey County Regional Parks and Trails. *(In 2013 the Conservation Corp of Minnesota (CCM) worked on over 20 different natural resource projects within the Regional Park and Trails System, totaling over 5,900 hours. Of those total hours, approximately, 1,300 hours were assisting high school youth on natural resource projects and environmental education).

Ramsey
Recipient
Anoka County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
University of Minnesota: Sponsored Projects Administration
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$56,002
Fund Source

The project goal is to assist the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with meeting the objectives of the Surface Water Assessment Grant (SWAG) to conduct field and water chemistry monitoring at MPCA specified lake sampling locations and stream locations. This will be accomplished by collecting water samples at seven lake sites and eight streams in the Kettle and Upper St. Croix Watersheds, as well as compiling and submitting the required data, information and reports.

Aitkin
Carlton
Pine