2025-2027 Triennial Standards Review

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Comment From: Craig Tangren

2/07/25 @ 10:32 PM
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Comment From: Christie Kearney

2/07/25 @ 9:12 PM
Please see the attached letter. Thank you!
Christie Kearney and Paul Drevnick
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Comment From: Julie Lucas

2/07/25 @ 9:01 PM
Please find comments attached on behalf of MiningMinnesota.
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Comment From: Andrea OBO White Earth Nation Szabo OBO White Earth Nation

2/07/25 @ 7:14 PM
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Comment From: Sierra Club North Star Chapter Margaret Levin

2/07/25 @ 5:26 PM
Please see comment letter attached.
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Comment From: James Rasmussen

2/07/25 @ 5:22 PM
Please see attached comment on the Draft Triennial Standards Review Workplan and MN. Rules 7050 and 7052 on behalf of Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission staff.
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Comment From: Akilah Sanders-Reed

2/07/25 @ 4:18 PM
Please find attached the comments of Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, and one attachment to those comments.
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Comment From: Trisha Leaf

2/07/25 @ 12:48 PM
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Comment From: Cooper Silburn

2/07/25 @ 11:37 AM
On behalf of the Minnesota Environmental Science and Economic Review Board, please see the attached comments on MPCA's 2025-27 Triennial Standards Review.

Thank you.
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Comment From: Nancy Schuldt

2/06/25 @ 5:41 PM
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Comment From: Robert Shimek

2/06/25 @ 3:26 PM
My comments will be short and brief. 1. Move Manoomin (naturally occurring stands of wild rice) from Class 4 waters to Class 2 waters. 2. Research impacts of low levels of atrazine on Manoomin. 3. Research impacts of Atrazine in combination with othe...↓
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Comment From: Gary Dukes

2/06/25 @ 1:37 PM
Comments on MPCA Draft Water Quality Standards Work Plan 2025-2027

Ammonia and Nitrate – Aquatic Life; Human Health Standards for Sources of Drinking Water

I spent years of my boyhood living on a farm. My father and I went out to collect eggs from ...↓
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Comment From: Elizabeth Wefel

2/05/25 @ 4:17 PM
Comment submitted on behalf of the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities.
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Comment From: Trevor Russell

2/03/25 @ 8:16 PM
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Comment From: Randy Neprash

1/21/25 @ 4:21 PM

Hi, Bill:

 

It's nice to have a reason to be back in touch with you. It's been a while. I hope you are well and generally pleased with things. Please know that I am. Also, please note my new E-mail address. I am still doing some work for MCSC, but it i...↓

 

As usual, I have some challenging questions that are liable to be a bit difficult to answer. It seems only polite to send them to you in advance of the TSR public meeting (https://www.pca.state.mn.us/events-and-meetings/triennial-standards-review-2025-01-23).

 

On December 26, 2024, EPA published the availability of draft Clean Water Act (CWA) national recommended ambient water quality criteria (AWQC) for the protection of human health for three per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), and perfluorobutane sulfonic acid (PFBS) (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/26/2024-30637/draft-national-recommended-ambient-water-quality-criteria-for-the-protection-of-human-health-for).

 

 

Related questions are:

  1. How are these AWQC from EPA intended to be a significant part of the development of state water quality standards?
  2. How does this release from EPA affect the development and timing of the Minnesota WQSs for these substances and other PFAS?
  3. In very general terms, how stringent are these AWQC? If these AWQC significantly shape the MN WQSs, what percentage (very roughly) of our surface waters does the MPCA estimate (very roughly) would be assessed as impaired for these substances?

Thanks and take care,

Randy

 

Randy Neprash, PE

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1276 Eldridge Ave. W.

Roseville, MN 55113

651-271-5535

[email protected]

 

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Comment From: Margaret Watkins

1/21/25 @ 11:57 AM
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Comment From: Thomas Kunkel

1/13/25 @ 9:21 PM
I am happy to see nitrates included in the water quality plan. I believe that this information is much needed. Having fished Minnesota lakes for most of my 72 years, I have become alarmed about the water quality of Southern Minnesota Lakes. Most of m...↓
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Comment From: Lee Ann Landstrom

1/13/25 @ 3:49 PM
As a trained scientist and environmental educator, I am quite concerned about multiple initial studies of the effects that neonic insecticides are having on bees and other insects, wild birds, wild mammals and now even pregnant women and fetuses. The...↓
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Comment From: Kelly Perrine

12/27/24 @ 10:31 AM
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