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3.6 STATE BOARD OF WATER AND SOIL RESOURCES (BWSR) The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) works through local government agencies to implement Minnesota's water and soil conservation policies. BWSR is the administrative agency for soil and water conservation districts, watershed districts, watershed management organizations, and county water managers. BWSR is responsible for implementation of the Metropolitan Surface Water Management Act and the Wetland Conservation Act. Staff members are located in eight field offices throughout the state. First established in 1937 as the State Soil Conservation Committee, the agency became part of the University of Minnesota in the 1950s, transferred to the Department of Natural Resources in 1971, then transferred to the Department of Agriculture in 1982. In 1987, the State Legislature established the current Board of Water and Soil Resources. The Board consists of 17 members, appointed by the governor to four-year terms, and includes representatives from multiple state and local agencies. In 1992, BWSR adopted rules (8410), establishing the required content for local surface water management plans. 3.7 MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY (MPCA) The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is the state's lead environmental protection agency. Created by the State Legislature in 1967, the MPCA is responsible for monitoring environmental quality and enforcing environmental regulations to protect the land, air, and water. The MPCA is the permitting authority in Minnesota for the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), the federal program administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address polluted surface water runoff. Certain cities in Minnesota are defined as Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) and are subject to stormwater regulation under the Clean Water Act and Minnesota Rule 7090. There are multiple ways for a City or township to be subject to the MPCA's stormwater regulation under the MPCA's general permit. The MPCA regulates the entire jurisdiction of a city (or township) that is located fully or partially within an urbanized area as determined by the latest Decennial Census and that owns or operates an MS4. Consequently, Mounds View has developed a stormwater pollution prevention program (SWPPP) to address six minimum control measures: 1) Public education 2) Public involvement 3) Illicit discharge detection and elimination 4) Construction site runoff control 5) Post -construction runoff control 6) Pollution prevention in municipal operations In addition to the NPDES program, the MPCA is required to publish a list of impaired waters: lakes and streams in the state that are not meeting federal water quality standards. For each waterbody on the list, the MPCA is required to conduct a study to determine the allowable Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for each pollutant that exceeds the standards. The proposed 2018 MPCA list of impaired waters identifies 2,627 TMDL reports needed for the lakes, rivers, and streams in the state. Local governments are required to incorporate completed TMDL studies into their Local Surface Water Management Plans and review their SWPPPs to determine if additional BMPs are needed to comply with the TMDL waste load allocation. The City has one impaired waterbody in its boundaries: Rice Creek, due to fish, macroinvertebrate, and E. coli bioassessments. In addition, runoff from Mounds View discharges to Long Lake, a downstream stretch of Rice Creek, and to the Mississippi River, that are also identified as City of Mounds View 17 Local Surface Water Management Plan 5tantec Stantec Project No. 193804166 �i