# 2025-13027: St. Cloud Project: Agency Snooze Means Auto-Yes on Water

2025-13027, City of St. Cloud, Minnesota; Notice of Reasonable Period of Time for Water Quality Certification Application, is a Federal Register notice from Energy Department, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published 2025-07-11, effective 2025-06-20 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-13027
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-13027
- Title: City of St. Cloud, Minnesota; Notice of Reasonable Period of Time for Water Quality Certification Application
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Energy Department; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 30906
- Published: 2025-07-11
- Effective: 2025-06-20
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

St. Cloud Project: Agency Snooze Means Auto-Yes on Water

## Summary

The City of St. Cloud, Minnesota, asked for a water quality check for a project, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has one year—until June 20, 2026—to approve or deny it. If the agency doesn’t decide by then, their approval is automatically given. This means the project can move forward without delays, keeping things on track and saving time and money.

## Effects PRIA read

- One-Year Deadline for Water Certification: benefit, low. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (Minnesota PCA) has one year—from June 20, 2025 until June 20, 2026—to approve or deny the City of St. Cloud's Clean Water Act section 401(a)(1) water quality certification request. If Minnesota PCA does not act by June 20, 2026, the certification is deemed wa…

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## Sources
- [2025-13027 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/11/2025-13027/city-of-st-cloud-minnesota-notice-of-reasonable-period-of-time-for-water-quality-certification)
- [2025-13027 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-07-11/pdf/2025-13027.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-13027 (as of 2026-06-08).