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04/06/09 09:12 PM <br />HOUSE RESEARCH TI'/JV H1973DE1 <br />3. i the United States Environmental Protection <br />3.2 Agency approved impaired waters list in <br />3.3 accordance with Minnesota Statutes, chapter <br />3.a 114D. The agency shall complete an average <br />3.5 often percent of the TMDLs each year over <br />3.6 the biennium. <br />3.7 (b) $500,000 the first year and $1,188,000 <br />3.s the second year is for development of an <br />3.9 enhanced TMDL database to manage and <br />3.io .track progress. Of this amount, $63,000 the <br />3.11 first year into promulgate rules. <br />3.12 ~ $1,500,000 the first year and $3,500,000 <br />3.13 the second year is for grants under Minnesota <br />3.ia Statutes, section 116.195, to political <br />3.is subdivisions for up to 50 percent of the <br />3.16 costs to predesign, design, and implement <br />3.17 capital projects that use treated municipal <br />3. i s wastewater instead of groundwater from <br />3.19 drinking water aquifers, in order to <br />3.2o demonstrate the beneficial use of wastewater, <br />3.21 including the conservation and protection of <br />3.22 water resources. <br />3.23 (d) $750,000 the first year and $1,500,000 the <br />3.24 second year are for groundwater assessment <br />3.2s and drinking water protection to include: <br />3.26 (1) the installation and sampling of at least <br />3.27 30 new monitoring wells; <br />3.2s ~2~ the analysis of samples from at least 40 <br />3.29 shallow monitoring wells each year for the <br />3.30 presence of endocrine disrupting compounds; <br />3.31 and <br />3.32 (3) the completion of at least four to <br />3.33 five ground water models for TMDL and <br />3.34 watershed plans. <br />3 <br />