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Pollution Control
Agency (PCA) Budget
PCA Base Budget by Program
($387.9 million in FY 2010-11)
Land Program activities include:
- Issuing permits to solid waste landfills and hazardous waste facilities
and generators
- Managing 112 closed solid waste landfills for which the state has
assumed responsibility
- Distributing grants to counties to support recycling and hazardous waste
collection
- Overseeing cleanup activities at 95 Superfund sites and 1,100
petroleum-contaminated sites
Water Program activities include:
- Permitting and inspecting 1,100 animal feedlots and 1,700 facilities
that discharge to state water bodies
- Developing and enforcing water
quality standards
- Issuing permits requiring cities, industrial
facilities, and construction sites to reduce the amount of stormwater runoff
carrying sediment and pollution to surface and ground water
- Monitoring
water quality in surface water and groundwater
Air Program activities include:
- Permitting and inspecting air emission sources
- Monitoring ambient air quality at 54 statewide sites
- Developing and enforcing air quality standards
Environmental Assistance and Crossmedia Program activities include:
- Providing scientific and technical support for all PCA programs
- Assisting Minnesota businesses to implement pollution prevention programs
Originally published January 2011.
