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Red River water board urges larger, predictable funding and permitting streamlining for flood mitigation projects
Summary
Rob Sipp of the Red River Watershed management presented a funding and permitting brief, urging the legislature to fund a roughly $139M no‑need list, broaden statewide eligibility for certain storage programs and streamline permitting to reduce project delays and costs.
Rob Sipp, director of the Red River Water Management Board, told the Subcommittee on Oct. 24 that Minnesota's Flood Hazard Mitigation Program has delivered substantial local benefits but that current funding requests and permitting burdens leave many projects unfunded or delayed.
Sipp reviewed the program history and funding needs: since 1988 the program has allocated roughly $578 million statewide and the program’s average allocation has been about $21 million per bonding appropriation year, he said. He told the committee the program’s current…
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