{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-103a.204","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 103A.204","heading":"GROUNDWATER POLICY.","body":"(a) The responsibility for the protection of groundwater in Minnesota is vested in a multiagency approach to management. The following is a list of agencies and the groundwater protection areas for which the agencies are primarily responsible; the list is not intended to restrict the areas of responsibility to only those specified:\n(1) Environmental Quality Board: coordination of state groundwater protection programs;\n(2) Pollution Control Agency: water quality monitoring and reporting and the development of best management practices and regulatory mechanisms for protection of groundwater from nonagricultural chemical contaminants;\n(3) Department of Agriculture: sustainable agriculture, integrated pest management, water quality monitoring, and the development of best management practices and regulatory mechanisms for protection of groundwater from agricultural chemical contaminants;\n(4) Board of Water and Soil Resources: reporting on groundwater education and outreach with local government officials, local water planning and management, and local cost-share programs;\n(5) Department of Natural Resources: water quantity monitoring and regulation, sensitivity mapping, and development of a plan for the use of integrated pest management and sustainable agriculture on state-owned lands; and\n(6) Department of Health: regulation of wells and borings, and the development of health risk limits under section 103H.201.\n(b) The Environmental Quality Board shall prepare a report on policy issues related to its responsibilities listed in paragraph (a), and include these reports with the assessments in section 103A.43 and the \"Minnesota Water Plan\" in section 103B.151.","path":["WATER","CHAPTER 103A. WATER POLICY AND INFORMATION","WATER POLICY"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/103A.204","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:30Z","sha256":"8159dc0aeba0dcfef288c7fada5700f342cec6cd7de05043654ae7677e2c2e9f","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-103a.203","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-103a.205"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}