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iss e e Corrigan er Tour e e MPCA Commissioner Sheryl Corrigan will be the guest speaker at the MAWD Summer Tour banquet on June 20. Sheryl Corrigan was appointed Commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) by Governor Tim Pawlenty in 2002. She worked in the agency from 1987 to 1990 after earning her Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology at the Minneapolis campus. At the MPCA she helped. develop expertise in interpreting water, air and hazardous waste regulations including those related to the federal Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. She worked to help manage and coordinate both county water planning programs, and watershed district programs and helped with the Minnesota water quality report and analyzed water quality data. She also served at the Metropolitan. Council and Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) as Environmen- tal Health and Safety (EHS) Manager, Senior Hydrogeolo- gist for Northern Environmental Technologies, Incorpo- rated in New Brighton, Minnesota and Water Quality Planner III in Seattle Washington for King County Surface Water Management where she developed and initiated new county water policy and analyzed groundwater problems relating to water supply and aquifer protection. ® a ®V Y' The 2003 Legislative Special Session concluded on May 30th bringing an end to the legislative process for another year. With the budget "deal" made between the House, Senate and Governor the session was finally completed. Several major bills were finalized in the special session. Bills of particular concern to watershed districts were the transportation funding bill, the bonding bill, arid the taxes bill. Watershed districts made out quite well in the bonding bill, and language challenging our permitting authority over some road work was dropped from the transportation finance bill. The tax bill also included reductions in local government aid for special taxing districts. Special district aid reductions in 2003 equal 1.5% of certified levy in 2003. Aid reductions in 2004 equal 2% of 2003 certified levy. In both years the aid reduction is limited to the district's market value credit reimbursements. MAWD 2003 efforts at the capitol concentrated on keeping permitting authority over work done in watershed districts by road authorities. House language that would allow the counties to move forward on transportation projects within the existing right of way without permit approvals from the Continued on page 4 MPCA Commissioner Sheryl Corrigan