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SF5131 • 2026

Environmental and natural resources trust fund appropriation for a demonstration project to treat landfill leachate for PFAS, chloride, and other contaminants

Environmental and natural resources trust fund appropriation for a demonstration project to treat landfill leachate for PFAS, chloride, and other contaminants

Budget
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Dahms
Last action
2026-04-15
Official status
Introduction and first reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Environmental and natural resources trust fund appropriation for a demonstration project to treat landfill leachate for PFAS, chloride, and other contaminants

Environmental and natural resources trust fund appropriation for a demonstration project to treat landfill leachate for PFAS, chloride, and other contaminants

What This Bill Does

  • Environmental and natural resources trust fund appropriation for a demonstration project to treat landfill leachate for PFAS, chloride, and other contaminants

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-15 House

    Introduction and first reading

Official Summary Text

Environmental and natural resources trust fund appropriation for a demonstration project to treat landfill leachate for PFAS, chloride, and other contaminants

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to environment; appropriating money from the environment and natural

resources trust fund for a demonstration project to treat landfill leachate for PFAS,

chloride, and other contaminants.

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

Section 1.
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APPROPRIATION; REGIONAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT TO

TREAT LANDFILL LEACHATE.
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$5,500,000 in fiscal year 2027 is appropriated from the environment and natural resources

trust fund to the commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency for a grant to Lyon County

to protect groundwater from contamination by constructing a regional demonstration project

at the Lyon County Regional Landfill to treat landfill leachate for perfluoroalkyl and

polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), chloride, and other potential contaminants. This is a

onetime appropriation.

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