MN HF4311

Appropriates $250,000 in fiscal year 2021 to Department of Agriculture for Forever Green agriculture initiative grants to promote perennial and winter-annual crops in Minnesota farming practices.

Appropriates $492,000 to Pollution Control Agency to adopt water quality standards for PFOA and PFOS by June 30, 2023.

Appropriates $488,000 to Board of Water and Soil Resources for permanent conservation easements and perennial vegetation on wellhead protection areas, with priority on high-vulnerability drinking water supply locations.

Appropriates $2,000,000 to Department of Health: $250,000 to amend health risk limits for perfluorooctane sulfonate to 0.015 parts per billion by July 1, 2022; $1,750,000 for developing health risk limits and water quality monitoring protocols; and $750,000 for studying contaminants in private wells.

Appropriates $500,000 to Metropolitan Council for inflow and infiltration reduction programs and $2,700,000 to University of Minnesota to study chronic wasting disease prion transport through waterways with a report due January 15, 2025.