A provision in the proposed House environment omnibus bill would prohibit the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency from applying a wild rice water quality standard for sulfate until the agency designates waters subject to the standard.
Wild rice is found in water bodies with relatively low sulfate concentrations. Sulfates discharged from mining operations, wastewater treatment plants, and other industrial facilities can harm wild rice stands.
The House Omnibus bill includes a section barring the MPCA from enforcing a standard to limit sulfate discharges from mining operations and other facilities until specific wild rice lakes have been tested and designated.
What Would Happen?
The amendment is approved and the provision is removed from the bill. The wild rice standard can be enforced.
The amendment is not adopted and the House omnibus bill includes the provision to suspend enforcement of the wild rice standard moves forward.
How The Committee Voted
The amendment is not adopted and the House omnibus bill includes the provision to suspend enforcement of the wild rice standard moves forward.
Share: 
Members At The Time Of The Vote
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Karen Clark
District 62A
Vote: Yes -
Tony Cornish
District 23B
Vote: No -
Dan Fabian
District 01A
Vote: Absent -
Kelly Fenton
District 53B
Vote: No -
Peter Fischer
District 43A
Vote: Yes -
Steve Green
District 02B
Vote: No -
Tom Hackbarth
District 31B
Vote: No -
David Hancock
District 02A
Vote: No -
Rick Hansen
District 52A
Vote: Yes -
Alice Hausman
District 66A
Vote: Yes -
Josh Heintzeman
District 10A
Vote: No -
Frank Hornstein
District 61A
Vote: Yes -
Clark Johnson
District 19A
Vote: Yes -
Jim Knoblach
District 14B
Vote: TBD -
Denny McNamara
District 54B
Vote: No -
Jim Newberger
District 15B
Vote: No -
John Persell
District 05A
Vote: Yes -
Jeanne Poppe
District 27B
Vote: Yes -
Jason Rarick
District 11B
Vote: No -
Paul Torkelson
District 16B
Vote: No -
Mark Uglem
District 36A
Vote: No
