Environmental review project notices
EQB publishes environmental review notices provided by responsible governmental units. For more information on a project undergoing environmental review, click on the individual project links below. You can also find information about active projects in your community on the Environmental Review Projects Interactive Map.
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We need your feedback: Some governmental units are completing environmental
review using the draft revised environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) form that?includes information about greenhouse gases and climate change. These reviews are
noted below with a star (*) in front of the project title. Help us understand the
usefulness of the climate change information in these EAWs by completing a brief
survey. Your feedback is important to the Environmental Quality Board and will inform
decision making on the final EAW form.
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Cleveland Avenue Reconstruction Project
Location: St. Paul, Ramsey County
Process: Petition
Step:?Responsible governmental unit assigned
Responsible governmental unit and contact:?Ramsey County, John Mazzitello,
651-266-7105
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Kenneth Gruenes Farm
Location: Richmond, Stearns County
Process: Petition
Step:?Environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) need decision
Responsible governmental unit decision:?Exempt from Minn. R. 4410 (no EAW ordered)
Record of decision date:?June 13, 2022
Responsible governmental unit and contact:?Minnesota Pollution Control Agency,?
Kirsten Barta, 651-757-2827
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Proposed Mixed Use Development?for 37 acres of Lake 9 of the Lester Park Golf Course
Location: Duluth, St. Louis County
Process: Petition
Step:?Environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) need decision
Responsible governmental unit decision:?Negative (no EAW ordered)
Record of decision date:?June 14, 2022
Responsible governmental unit and contact:?City of Duluth, Adam Fulton, 218-730-5580
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*Abbott Northwestern Surgical and Critical Care Pavilion
Location:?Minneapolis, Hennepin County
Process: Environmental assessment worksheet
Step: Environmental assessment worksheet available
End of comment period:?July 21, 2022
Project description:?This EAW studies the proposed Abbott Northwestern Surgical and Critical Care Pavilion located at 2742 10th Avenue South, 800, 916, 920, and 924 28th Street East, 2651 and 2753 Chicago Avenue, and 2701 Elliot Avenue in Minneapolis. Allina Health is proposing to construct the Abbott Northwestern Surgical and Critical Care Pavilion (Care Pavilion). The Care Pavilion project proposes replacing the four-story Ramp 1 with an approximately 588,000 square foot, 10-story quaternary Care Pavilion. The Care Pavilion will include 30 operating rooms, expanded heart services, four floor of inpatient beds, and a shelled floor for future patient care. The Care Pavilion will provide centralized kitchen and sterile spaces for the larger Abbott Northwestern campus. The project will also include roadway access system modifications, parking spaces, roadway reconstruction, and outdoor amenity and landscaping spaces.
Link to public documents:?Abbott Northwestern Surgical and Critical Care Pavilion EAW
Location of public documents:?Hennepin County Library - Central,?300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401
First public meeting date, time, location:?August 8, 2022, 1:30 p.m., Minneapolis City Hall - Council Chambers,?350 5th St S, #317, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Second public meeting date, time, location:?August 18, 2022, 9:30 a.m., Minneapolis, City Hall - Council Chambers,?350 5th St S, #317, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Responsible governmental unit and contact:?City of Minneapolis, Andrew Frenz,
612-673-3790
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Shoreview Deluxe Redevelopment
Location:?Shoreview, Ramsey County
Process: Environmental assessment worksheet (EAW)
Step: Environmental impact statement (EIS) need decision
Responsible governmental unit decision:?Negative (no EIS ordered)
Responsible governmental unit decision date:?June 9, 2022
Link to public documents:?No link to documents provided. See responsible governmental unit contact information below.
Location of public documents:?Shoreview City Hall,?4600 Victoria Street North, Shoreview, MN 55126
Responsible governmental unit and contact:?City of Shoreview, Tom Simonson,
651-490-4612
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Wabasha Barge Facility
Location:?Wabasha, Wabasha County
Process: Environmental impact statement
Step: Environmental impact statement scoping EAW and draft scoping decision
End of comment period:?July 21, 2022
Project description: This Scoping Document addresses a proposed barge facility in Wabasha, MN that will serve to transport sand from Mississippi River navigation channel dredging operations from the river to offsite locations for beneficial re-use. The project area encompasses 54.0 acres and will include infrastructure construction, including access channel dredging, a sheet pile dock wall, barge mooring and maneuvering facilities, conveyors and hoppers for material management, temporary storage area for transported dredge material, sewer and water utilities, internal access road, a weighing station, and a small operations structure (see Appendix A for a series of location maps and existing/proposed site condition maps). Facility operations will involve the transfer of sand from river barges to trucks for transport to off-site facilities for use as reclamation material for existing sand and gravel mines or other potential beneficial reuse.
Link to public documents:?Wabasha Barge Facility environmental impact statement scoping EAW and draft scoping decision
Location of public documents:?Wabasha City Hall,?900 Hiawatha Drive E, Wabasha, MN 55981
First public meeting date, time, location: July 19, 2022, 5:30 p.m., Wabasha City Hall,?900 Hiawatha Drive E, Wabasha, MN 55981
First public meeting virtual link:?https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82539841446
First public meeting additional details:?The meeting will occur as part of the regularly scheduled Wabasha Port Authority and Development Agency meeting. Interested individuals unable to attend in-person can attend virtually.
Responsible governmental unit and contact:?Wabasha Port Authority, Caroline Gregerson, 651-565-4568
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Nelson Mine Backwater Project
Location:?Cottage Grove, Washington County
Process: Environmental impact statement
Step: Environmental impact statement preparation notice
Project description: Holcim (formerly Aggregate Industries ? MWR, Inc.) is proposing to move its mine area, which supports the existing Nelson Sand & Gravel Mine Facility, onto an approximately 395-acre parcel of privately owned land that the company leases in the backwaters of the Mississippi River on Lower Grey Cloud Island in Cottage Grove, MN. The planned shift in mine area would take place during a 20 to 25-year period. On May 4, 2022, the Cottage Grove City Council passed a resolution approving the Final Scoping Decision Document. A formal Notice of EIS preparation will be published on June 21, 2022.
Summary of scoping decision:?Pursuant to Minnesota Administrative Rules (Minnesota Rules) for nonmetallic mineral mining, 4410.4400, Subpart 9B and Subpart 9C, the City of Cottage Grove, acting as the Responsible Governmental Unit (RGU) has prepared a Final Scoping Decision Document (SDD) for Aggregate Industries ? MWR, Inc. (Proposer) Nelson Mine Backwater Project (Project). The existing Nelson Sand & Gravel Mine Facility mines aggregate in the Lower Grey Cloud Island deposit and will exhaust its currently accessible minable reserves in approximately five years given the current rate of mining, market trends, and geologic variations at the site. The proposed Project?s purpose is to exercise Aggregate Industries? lease to continue mechanical dredging operations in an adjacent backwaters area of the Mississippi River to supply to the Twin Cities and other local markets with construction quality natural aggregate for an additional 20 to 25 years.
Link to public documents:?Nelson Mine Backwater Project environmental impact statement preparation notice
Location of public documents:?Cottage Grove City Hall,?12800 Ravine Parkway, Cottage Grove, MN 55016
Responsible governmental unit and contact:?City of Cottage Grove, Emily Schmitz,
651-458-2874
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