# Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning *Former Minnesota state planning agency (abolished 2003)* The Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning was a Minnesota state agency. It carried forward, under a new name, the State Planning Agency.[^1] The Minnesota Legislative Reference Library's agency record lists the office as abolished in 2003.[^2] The project's dossier dates the predecessor State Planning Agency to 1965, under Rolvaag. It places the renaming in 1991 under Carlson and the abolition in 2003 under Pawlenty.[^1] The dossier states that it has not yet pulled the 1965 and 1991 session laws or the 2003 abolition instrument. The record therefore does not establish the enacting and abolishing instruments, the agency's statutory authority, its staffing, or its budget.[^1] ## In the Minnesota record ### When - 1965: The State Planning Agency, the office's predecessor, dates to this year under Rolvaag, according to the dossier.[^1] - 1991: The State Planning Agency was rebranded as the Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning under Carlson, according to the dossier. The dossier does not cite a session law for this step.[^1] - 2003: The Legislative Reference Library lists the office as abolished in 2003.[^2] The dossier attributes the abolition to Pawlenty.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: *The Instrument No One Will Name* (research dossier, densified 2026-06-18), item 31 — sequence of the State Planning Agency (1965, Rolvaag), its 1991 rebranding under Carlson, and its 2003 abolition by Pawlenty; the dossier notes that the 1965 and 1991 session laws and the 2003 abolition remain to be pulled for documented-proof grade. No URL in the record. [^2]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, *Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning* (agency record, undated) — lists the office as abolished in 2003. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/agencies/detail?AgencyID=1536