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- Build on reforms made during the 2025 session.
- Increase efficiency and streamline the environmental review and permitting process.
- Engage communication and coordination among state agencies.
- Abide by federal statutes and rules to avoid state-by-state patchwork of requirements.
- Oversee agencies implementing
statutory changes.
Business priorities
- Environmental permitting reform
- Scaling back chemical regulations
Policies we opposed
- A new tax on the manufacture, import, or sale of anything with a cord, battery, or circuit board in Minnesota
- New authority to require air dispersion modeling
- New authority to cite and fine environmental consultants
- Establishing an “inherent right” of wild rice to exist.
(Not just protections for wild rice. A right to exist.)
Outcomes
- Permitting reforms!
- Makes fixes to determining ‘completeness’ of permit applications
- Clarifies reporting requirements
- Streamlines process to undergo environmental review for big projects
- Creates report on DNR and local government use of watershed extensions
- Clarifies that local permitting for feedlots can occur simultaneously with MPCA process
- Creates additional incentives for MPCA to process permits
- Chemical regulations:
- Products containing “intentionally added” PFAS are exempt from ban if internal components do not have direct contact with individuals’ skin or mouth
- Lead and cadmium exempted from ban for certain writing materials (e.g., pens, mechanical pencils, artist materials and solders)
- Lead and cadmium in key – California standard and delay on implementation
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