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MPCA seeks more permitting capacity, sustainable aviation fuel readiness and product-stewardship authority
Summary
Commissioner Katrina Kessler presented a package of operating adjustments, permitting-reform proposals, staffing for sustainable aviation fuel reviews, an e-waste and battery product-stewardship program, and other targeted items including remediation staffing and mercury enforcement measures.
Katrina Kessler, commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, told the Environment, Climate, and Legacy Committee that the MPCA's budget request focuses on resourcing the agency's core work, improving permitting transparency and speed, and positioning the state for technology and materials transitions such as sustainable aviation fuel and battery recycling.
Why it matters: The MPCA enforces state and delegated federal pollution-control programs and administers several pass-through and remediation funds. Commissioner Kessler said the agency must balance customer service, delegated federal responsibilities and the technical demands of new environmental priorities while operating in a constrained fiscal environment.
Core-operating and air-program funding
Kessler described two near-term items: a modest operating adjustment to cover inflation-driven costs such as fleet, phones and compensation, and an environmental-fund appropriation to align air-program funding with a statutory expectation…
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