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the numerical standards set for conductivity, hardness, sodium and bicarbonates in waters meant for industry and irrigation. They also would allow for higher amounts of chloride, alkalinity, salinity and total dissolved solids in waters meant for industry, irrigation and livestock, and wildlife drinking. The MPCA has established that it has the statutory authority to adopt the proposed rules, as amended, and that the proposed rules are needed and reasonable, Lipman wrote.
In a February public hearing, the MPCA said the existing rules were outdated and changes were long overdue. The numerical standards would be replaced with narrative standards that the MPCA maintained were enforceable and equally protective.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is still weighing the EPA s permit suspension request. 5:42 pm, Mar. 8, 2021 ×
Plans for PolyMet include building dams to increase the storage capacity of tailings basins. One would be built in the distance to raise the basin on the right to the level of the area on the left. (Steve Kuchera / 2017 file / News Tribune)
A federal judge approved the Environmental Protection Agency s proposal to study potential effects of PolyMet s copper-nickel mine on the downstream Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, beginning a 90-day review.
But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has not decided whether it will suspend a permit during that review, despite the EPA s request.
Marshall Helmberger
REGIONAL It appears mining companies on the Iron Range can afford to clean-up toxic water discharges at their taconite plants and tailings basins. But they likely won’t have to if new rules the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is proposing are enacted, as early as this year.
The new rules, designed to replace standards first established in the late 1960s, were the subject of a public hearing earlier this month before an administrative law judge in St. Paul. The public comment period on the new rules, which would all but eliminate numeric water quality standards for what are known as Class 3 and Class 4 waters in Minnesota, ends Feb. 24. (See sidebar for more on water classifications in Minnesota).
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