The Minnesota Legislature has passed several laws that advance the state’s efforts toward sustainable development.

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.

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.

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.