Water availability focus group
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MINNESOTA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY BOARD
North Central Lakes collaborative profile
The North Central Lakes Collaborative is an affiliation of citizens, organizations, local governments, and state agencies working together to identify and promote strategies for sustainable healthy lakes in central Minnesota. The five county area encompassing Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, and Itasca counties is a rapidly growing region of the state with 30-year growth projections expected to exceed 60%, far exceeding statewide average growth projections. The Brainerd Lakes area is among the country’s fastest growing “micropolitan” areas, ranking 27th in the
Sustainable development act of 1996
Laws of Minnesota, 1996, Chapter 454
AN ACT
Relating to local government; requiring a sustainable development planning guide and a model ordinance to be developed for local government use by the office of strategic and long-range planning; directing the environmental quality board to adopt principles of sustainable development; requiring reports; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 4A.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Minnesota:
Section 1. (4A.07) (Sustainable development for local government.)
Round table on sustainable development
The Minnesota Round Table on Sustainable Development was a diverse group of 30 business, environmental and community leaders appointed by Governor Arne H. Carlson to consider how Minnesotans could safeguard their long-term environmental, economic and social well-being.
Environmental Reorganization
Laws of Minnesota 1995
Chapter 248, Article 5
ENVIRONMENTAL REORGANIZATION
Section 1. [FINDINGS.]
Minnesota progress indicator
A new tool, the Minnesota progress indicator, has been developed to aid in measuring Minnesota’s progress toward achieving a healthy, sustainable economy. Based on Minnesota Milestones goals, the progress indicator is a set of 42 economic, environmental and community measures that collectively provide a more realistic and comprehensive way to gauge the state's progress toward smart growth and sustainable development.
Sustainable development legislation
The Minnesota Legislature has passed several laws that advance the state’s efforts toward sustainable development.
Water Resources Leadership Group
The Water Resources Leadership Group brings together state agencies that have a major role in taking care of the state’s waters and advises the EQB and Governor's Clean Water Cabinet on Minnesota’s water issues and priorities. Each member looks at water issues from a different angle — drinking water, agriculture, recreation, pollution — and coordinates their concerns through the committee, board and cabinet in order to create a unified, coherent approach to managing Minnesota’s water.
Basin team reports and information
Many citizens helped shape the state`s 10-year water plan and the Governor’s Water Unification Initiative by providing input to basin teams across the state through meetings and this web site.
Praire Island: Dry Cast Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
The 1994 Minnesota Legislature allowed Northern States Power Company to store
a limited amount of spent nuclear fuel in dry casks at its Prairie Island power
plant in Goodhue County, as long as the power company met several obligations.
One obligation was to make a good-faith effort to find an alternative storage
site in Goodhue County.
In July 1995, Northern States Power Company proposed two possible locations, both in Florence Township near the town of Frontenac.