Scott County votes to send comments, urges MPCA to clarify and rewrite draft resource management report

Jul 22, 2026

Brad Davis and county staff urged the board to send a comment letter asking the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to rewrite parts of its draft resource management report, flagging concerns about waste-to-energy classification and a 90% diversion scenario; the board voted to authorize submission of comments.

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County staff told commissioners the draft MPCA resource management report, produced under a 2023 legislative directive, contains approaches and scenarios the county believes could be misread as precursors to regulation and that the county should make its views part of the public record.

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