103A.204 GROUNDWATER POLICY.
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103A.204 GROUNDWATER POLICY.
(a)The responsibility for the protection of groundwater in Minnesota is vested in a multiagency approach to management. The following is a list of agencies and the groundwater protection areas for which the agencies are primarily responsible; the list is not intended to restrict the areas of responsibility to only those specified:
(1)Environmental Quality Board: coordination of state groundwater protection programs;
(2)Pollution Control Agency: water quality monitoring and reporting and the development of best management practices and regulatory mechanisms for protection of groundwater from nonagricultural chemical contaminants;
(3)Department of Agriculture: sustainable agriculture, integrated pest management, water quality monitoring, and the development of best management practices and regulatory mechanisms for protection of groundwater from agricultural chemical contaminants;
(4)Board of Water and Soil Resources: reporting on groundwater education and outreach with local government officials, local water planning and management, and local cost-share programs;
(5)Department of Natural Resources: water quantity monitoring and regulation, sensitivity mapping, and development of a plan for the use of integrated pest management and sustainable agriculture on state-owned lands; and
(6)Department of Health: regulation of wells and borings, and the development of health risk limits under section 103H.201 .
(b)The Environmental Quality Board shall prepare a report on policy issues related to its responsibilities listed in paragraph (a), and include these reports with the assessments in section 103A.43 and the "Minnesota Water Plan" in section 103B.151 .