Service Area

Taconite Assistance Area Map

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The service area of Iron Range Resources is defined by Minnesota Statute 273.1341 as the "Taconite Assistance Area."

The law further defines the agency's service area as "the geographic area that falls within the boundaries of a school district that contains:

(1) A municipality in which the assessed valuation of unmined iron ore on May 1, 1941, was not less than 40 percent of the assessed valuation of all real property; or

(2) A municipality in which on January 1, 1977, or the applicable assessment date, there is a taconite concentrating plant or where taconite is mined or quarried or where there is located an electric generating plant which qualifies as a taconite facility.