{"content":[{"text":"03/30/2019","bbox":{"left":0.787909,"top":0.067051,"width":0.09448000000000001,"height":0.018496}},{"text":"Minnesota 3M PFC Settlement \n Program Goals (Version 3.0) \n March 30, 2019","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.108644,"width":0.33983499999999994,"height":0.07392799999999998}},{"text":"Background","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.200088,"width":0.11279200000000002,"height":0.021577999999999986}},{"text":"The State of Minnesota’s 2018 Agreement and Order (Agreement) with 3M Company (3M) \n establishes the 3M Grant for Water Quality and Sustainability Fund (Grant). The Minnesota \n Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) \n will use the Grant for projects that are reasonable and necessary to achieve the purposes of the \n Agreement, based on the following priorities: \n 1. First and highest priority: Enhance the quality, quantity, and sustainability of the \n drinking water in the East Metropolitan Area. The goal of this highest priority work is to \n ensure clean drinking water in sufficient supply to residents and businesses in the East \n Metropolitan Area to meet their current and future water needs. Examples of projects \n (not listed by preference) may include, but are not limited to, the development of \n alternative drinking water sources, the treatment of existing water supplies, water \n conservation and efficiency, open space acquisition (as related to drinking water \n supply), and groundwater recharge. For individual households, projects may include, but \n are not limited to, connecting those residences to municipal water supplies, providing \n individual treatment systems, or constructing new wells. In selecting and performing \n activities under this priority, the State will prioritize water supplies where health based \n values, health risk limits, and/or health risk indices for perfluorochemicals [PFCs, also \n referred to as per- and polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)] are exceeded. \n 2. Second highest priority: Restore and enhance aquatic resources, wildlife, habitat, \n fishing, resource improvement, and outdoor recreational opportunities in the East \n Metropolitan Area and in downstream areas of the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers. \n Projects may include, but are not limited to, aquatic habitat and water resource \n protection and restoration, terrestrial and water trails, boat ramps and/or fishing piers, \n restoration of wildlife habitat, and other terrestrial conservation and recreation \n improvements. This priority will be addressed after the MPCA and the DNR have \n reasonably achieved the goal set forth under Priority 1, with the exception of up to $20 \n million of Grant funds to which the MPCA and the DNR have immediate access. \n 3. Third highest priority: Fund residual, statewide water resources, habitat restoration, \n open space preservation, recreation improvements, and other sustainability projects. \n This priority will only be addressed if any portion of the Grant remains after the MPCA \n and the DNR have reasonably achieved the goals set forth under Priorities 1 and 2.","bbox":{"left":0.117688,"top":0.241988,"width":0.763396,"height":0.596614}},{"text":"Minnesota 3M PFC Settlement","bbox":{"left":0.164297,"top":0.953182,"width":0.289875,"height":0.021577999999999986}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.841422,"top":0.954384,"width":0.010766000000000053,"height":0.02003699999999997}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.072222,"top":0.941282,"width":0.085212,"height":0.028535}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.072222,"top":0.941282,"width":0.085212,"height":0.028535}]}