The MPCA assumes responsibility for any remaining cleanup work, closure construction, and long-term care of the landfill. The primary customers are the owners and operators of the municipal sanitary landfills in Minnesota. The Closed Landfill Unit provides assistance to parties directly through consultations with staff and with guidance documents.
Substantial funding is available for the landfill activities.
In order to qualify for consideration for disposal of dump materials at qualified facilities, the owner of the site where the dump materials were disposed shall notify the commissioner, in writing, at least six months before closure activity at the qualified facility indicating the owner's desire to dispose of the dump material at the qualified facility in order to allow adequate time for construction planning and public information activities. The commissioner shall consider requests based on the schedule of closure and closure upgrade activities at qualified facilities. The commissioner shall require the owner of the site to submit, at the owner's expense, physical and chemical evaluation data regarding the dump material including any necessary coring, excavation, or other sampling data at least six months before closure construction to assist the commissioner in making the determination whether or not to accept the material. The commissioner may reject any and all requests to dispose of dump materials at qualified facilities. Nothing in this section shall be construed as allowing unpermitted disposal facilities to be included as qualified facilities in the closed landfill program.