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HF4007 • 2026

Commissioner of Pollution Control Agency required to maintain a web-based permit application tracker.

Commissioner of Pollution Control Agency required to maintain a web-based permit application tracker.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Warwas, Igo, Heintzeman
Last action
2026-03-05
Official status
Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Commissioner of Pollution Control Agency required to maintain a web-based permit application tracker.

Commissioner of Pollution Control Agency required to maintain a web-based permit application tracker.

What This Bill Does

  • Commissioner of Pollution Control Agency required to maintain a web-based permit application tracker.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-05 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Official Summary Text

Commissioner of Pollution Control Agency required to maintain a web-based permit application tracker.

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to environment; requiring the commissioner of the Pollution Control

Agency to maintain a web-based permit application tracker; amending Minnesota

Statutes 2024, section 116.07, by adding a subdivision.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 116.07, is amended by adding a subdivision

to read:

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Subd. 4o.

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Permit application tracker.

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The commissioner must establish, maintain, and

continually improve a web-based application that allows applicants and members of the

public to track the status of permit applications submitted to the agency. The information

available through the tracker must include the facility name, permit program category,

permit type, facility identification number, permit number, and the dates on which steps in

the permitting process were completed.

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective the day following final enactment.

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