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Agriculture and Natural Resources details ARPA water grants, riparian buffers and proposed CAFO fee increases
Summary
Department Secretary Hunter Roberts told legislators the agency is distributing nearly $689 million in ARPA funds for water and wastewater projects, rolling out a Big Sioux riparian buffer initiative and proposing a staged fee increase for CAFO permitting to cover program costs.
Hunter Roberts, secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR), told the Joint Appropriations Committee that the department has distributed large amounts of ARPA funds for drinking‑water and wastewater infrastructure and is proposing program changes to manage growing permitting workloads.
Roberts said the 2022 and 2024 legislatures provided roughly $689 million in federal ARPA dollars to the department to support infrastructure projects eligible under the State Revolving Fund rules and other programs; he said those grants have leveraged about $1 billion in low‑interest loans and that more than $403 million of the ARPA grants had been expended through Jan. 10, 2025. Roberts said roughly 200 projects across the state have…
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