Public Comment Form

Commenting open: May 08, 2025 12:00AM CT - June 09, 2025 11:59PM CT.

Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (Faribault Energy Park) - Air Permit

We invite you to comment on the draft air quality permit for Faribault Energy Park.


Minnesota Municipal Power Agency owns and operates Faribault Energy Park, an electric power plant that makes use of a combustion turbine, a duct burner, two boilers, and an emergency generator. The facility uses selective catalytic reduction to reduce nitrogen oxides emissions from the turbine and duct burner.


The draft permit reissues the facility’s air quality permit and does not authorize any construction or new emissions. The draft air permit limits emissions of nitrogen oxides and several other pollutants related to combustion and requires performance testing, recordkeeping, and continuous emissions monitoring for nitrogen oxides. 


An air quality operating permit is required for certain existing facilities or the construction of new facilities that have the potential to emit a significant level of any regulated pollutant. The permit includes all requirements for operation and procedures, applicable rules, emission standards, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting. If additional conditions change and modifications are necessary, the MPCA may review and amend the permit.



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Thank you for providing feedback on this project. We value your comments and will use them to assess this project further.


In your comments, please state your interest in the permit application or the draft permit; the explicit actions you wish the MPCA to take, including specific references to the section of the draft permit you believe should be changed; and the reasons supporting your position, stated with sufficient specificity as to allow the MPCA to investigate the merits of the position.


If you want to submit a letter, you can upload the letter on this website or submit it via US Mail to the following address:


Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
c/o Cavanaugh Soules
520 Lafayette Road
Saint Paul, MN 55155

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