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MPCA flags $3.4B immediate wastewater project backlog, urges continued state match for federal funds
Summary
MPCA officials told the committee the current project priority list includes 315 water infrastructure projects totaling about $3.4 billion and said the 20-year wastewater infrastructure need is roughly $6.5 billion, urging steady state matching dollars to leverage federal funding and help financially constrained communities.
Dana Vander Bosch, Assistant Commissioner for Water Policy and Agriculture at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, told the Capital Investment Committee that the state's project priority list (PPL) for wastewater and stormwater currently contains 315 projects totaling about $3,400,000,000 in need.
"The current project priority list includes 315…
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