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The state Department of Natural Resources is considering streamlining its regulatory efforts by giving less scrutiny to some kinds of pollution and by relying on businesses to draft their own pollution permits subject to agency review.

At a meeting with employees last week, top administrators said any changes in state air and water protections would necessarily meet standards spelled out in federal laws.

No final decisions have been made, but the DNR expects to meet a June deadline for completing a reorganization plan demanded by elected officials, agency deputy secretary Kurt Thiede told employees at a videotaped teleconference last week.

“We basically made commitments to ourselves and to a number of decision-makers who have been watching us very closely, saying, ‘Give us a year, give a year to determine what we are going to do, what we are going to look like and how we are going to be aligned,’ ” Thiede said at the meeting.

Thiede was responding to an employee who asked why the reorganization plan must be done June 30.

“This is the kind of thing where if we said we needed two or three years, I don’t think we would be given the deference to kind of be controlling our own direction right now,” Thiede said.