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MN Stat § 115A.918 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.918 — Definitions.

115A.918 DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Scope. The definitions in this section apply to this section and sections 115A.919 to 115A.929. Subd. 2. Closure. "Closure" means actions that will prevent, mitigate, or minimize the threat to public health and the environment posed by a closed solid waste disposal facility including application of final cover; grading and seeding of final cover; installation of an adequate monitoring system, if necessary; and construction of ground and surface water diversion structures. Subd. 2a. Equivalent. For mixed municipal solid waste, the measure of "equivalent" or "equivalent cubic yards of waste" is 3.33 cubic yards per ton of waste. Subd. 3. Operator. "Operator" means: (1) the permittee of a mixed municipal solid waste disposal facility that has an agency permit; or (2) the person in control of a mixed municipal solid waste disposal facility that does not have an agency permit. Subd. 4. Postclosure, postclosure care. "Postclosure" and "postclosure care" mean actions taken for the care, maintenance, and monitoring of a solid waste disposal facility after closure that will prevent, mitigate, or minimize the threat to public health and environment posed by the closed facility. Subd. 5. Response. "Response" has the meaning given it in section 115B.02, subdivision 18. History:  1985 c 274 s 11; 1994 c 585 s 20,21
MN Stat § 115A.921 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.921 — City Or Town; Fee Authority.

115A.921 CITY OR TOWN; FEE AUTHORITY. Subdivision 1. Mixed municipal solid waste. (a) A city or town may impose a fee, not to exceed $1 per cubic yard of waste, or its equivalent, on operators of facilities for the disposal of mixed municipal solid waste located within the city or town. The revenue from the fees must be credited to the city or town general fund. Revenue produced by 25 cents of the fee must be used only for purposes of landfill abatement or for purposes of mitigating and compensating for the local risks, costs, and other adverse effects of facilities. Revenue produced by the balance of the fee may be used for any general fund purpose. (b) Waste residue from recycling facilities at which recyclable materials are separated or processed for the purpose of recycling, or from energy and resource recovery facilities at which solid waste is processed for the purpose of extracting, reducing, converting to energy, or otherwise separating and preparing solid waste for reuse shall be exempt from the fee imposed by a city or town under this section if there is at least an 85 percent weight reduction in the solid waste processed. Before any fee is reduced, the verification procedures of section 473.843, subdivision 1, paragraph (c), must be followed and submitted to the appropriate city or town, except that for facilities operating outside of the metropolitan area the commissioner shall prescribe procedures for verifying the required 85 percent weight reduction. Subd. 2. Construction debris. (a) A city or town may impose a fee, not to exceed 50 cents per cubic yard of waste, or its equivalent, on operators of facilities for the disposal of construction debris located within the city or town. The revenue from the fees must be credited to the city or town general fund. Two-thirds of the revenue must be used only for purposes of landfill abatement or for purposes of mitigating and compensating for the local risks, costs, and other adverse effects resulting from the facilities. (b) A facility permitted for the disposal of construction debris is exempt from 25 percent of a fee imposed under this subdivision if the facility has implemented a recycling program that has been approved by the county and 25 percent if the facility contains a liner and leachate collection system approved by the agency. (c) Two-thirds of the revenue from fees collected under this subdivision must offset any financial assurances required by the city or town for a construction debris facility. (d) The maximum revenue that may be collected under this subdivision must be determined by multiplying the total permitted capacity of a facility by 15 cents per cubic yard. Once the maximum revenue has been collected for a facility, the fees in this subdivision may no longer be imposed. History:  1984 c 644 s 47; 1987 c 348 s 26; 1988 c 685 s 20; 1989 c 325 s 19; 1991 c 337 s 38; 1994 c 585 s 23; 1995 c 247 art 1 s 22
MN Stat § 115A.923 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.923 — Greater Minnesota; Landfill Cleanup Fee.

115A.923 GREATER MINNESOTA; LANDFILL CLEANUP FEE. Subdivision 1. Amount of fee. (a) The operator of a mixed municipal solid waste disposal facility outside of the metropolitan area shall charge a fee on solid waste accepted and disposed of at the facility as follows: (1) a facility that weighs the waste that it accepts must charge a fee of $2 per cubic yard based on equivalent cubic yards of waste accepted at the entrance of the facility; (2) a facility that does not weigh the waste but that measures the volume of the waste that it accepts must charge a fee of $2 per cubic yard of waste accepted at the entrance of the facility; and (3) waste residue from recycling facilities at which recyclable materials are separated or processed for the purpose of recycling, or from energy and resource recovery facilities at which solid waste is processed for the purpose of extracting, reducing, converting to energy, or otherwise separating and preparing solid waste for reuse is exempt from the fee imposed by this subdivision if there is at least an 85 percent weight reduction in the solid waste processed. (b) To qualify for exemption under paragraph (a), clause (3), waste residue must be brought to a disposal facility separately. The commissioner shall prescribe procedures for determining the amount of waste residue qualifying for exemption. Subd. 1a. Disposition of fee. The operator of a disposal facility in greater Minnesota shall remit the fees collected under subdivision 1 to the county or sanitary district where the facility is located, except that the operator of a facility that is owned by a statutory or home rule city shall remit the fees to the city that owns the facility and the operator of a facility that is owned by a joint powers board shall remit the fees to the board. The county, city, joint powers board, or sanitary district may use the revenue from the fees only for the purposes specified in section 115A.919. Subd. 2.  [Repealed, 1990 c 604 art 10 s 32] Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1990 c 604 art 10 s 32] Subd. 4.  [Repealed, 1990 c 604 art 10 s 32] Subd. 5.  [Repealed, 1990 c 604 art 10 s 32] Subd. 6.  [Repealed, 1994 c 416 art 4 s 5] History:  1989 c 325 s 21; 1990 c 604 art 10 s 26; 1991 c 337 s 39,40; 1994 c 416 art 4 s 1; 1995 c 247 art 1 s 23; 1996 c 470 s 11; 1996 c 471 art 13 s 4
MN Stat § 115A.929 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.929 — Fees; Accounting.

115A.929 FEES; ACCOUNTING. Each political subdivision that provides for solid waste management shall account for all revenue collected from waste management fees, together with interest earned on revenue from the fees, separately from other revenue collected by the political subdivision and shall report revenue collected from the fees and use of the revenue separately from other revenue and use of revenue in any required financial report or audit. For the purposes of this section, "waste management fees" means: (1) all fees, charges, and surcharges collected under sections 115A.919, 115A.921, and 115A.923; (2) all tipping fees collected at waste management facilities owned or operated by the political subdivision; (3) all charges imposed by the political subdivision for waste collection and management services; and (4) any other fees, charges, or surcharges imposed on waste or for the purpose of waste management, whether collected directly from generators or indirectly through property taxes or as part of utility or other charges for services provided by the political subdivision. History:  1991 c 337 s 41; 1993 c 249 s 17; 1994 c 585 s 24; 1Sp2003 c 1 art 2 s 63; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 131
MN Stat § 115A.931 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.931 — Yard Waste; Prohibition.

115A.931 YARD WASTE; PROHIBITION. (a) Except as authorized by the agency, in the metropolitan area after January 1, 1990, and outside the metropolitan area after January 1, 1992, a person may not place yard waste: (1) in mixed municipal solid waste; (2) in a disposal facility; or (3) in a resource recovery facility except for the purposes of reuse, composting, or cocomposting. (b) MS 2008 [Renumbered 115A.03, subd 38] (c) On or after January 1, 2010, a person may not place yard waste or source-separated compostable materials generated in a metropolitan county in a plastic bag delivered to a transfer station or compost facility unless the bag meets all the specifications in ASTM Standard Specification for Compostable Plastics (D6400). For purposes of this paragraph, "metropolitan county" has the meaning given in section 473.121, subdivision 4, and "ASTM" has the meaning given in section 296A.01, subdivision 6. (d) A person who immediately empties a plastic bag containing yard waste or source-separated compostable materials delivered to a transfer station or compost facility and removes the plastic bag from the transfer station or compost facility is exempt from paragraph (c). (e) Residents of a city of the first class that currently contracts for the collection of yard waste are exempt from paragraph (c) until January 1, 2013, if, by that date, the city implements a citywide source-separated compostable materials collection program using durable carts. History:  1988 c 685 s 21; 1991 c 337 s 44; 1992 c 593 art 1 s 28; 1995 c 247 art 1 s 66; 2009 c 37 art 1 s 44
MN Stat § 115A.932 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.932 — Mercury Prohibition.

115A.932 MERCURY PROHIBITION. Subdivision 1. Prohibitions and recycling requirements. (a) A person may not place mercury or a mercury-containing device or product, as defined under section 116.92, subdivision 10, from which the mercury has not been removed for reuse or recycling: (1) in solid waste; or (2) in a wastewater disposal system. (b) A person may not knowingly place mercury or a mercury-containing device or product, as defined under section 116.92, subdivision 10, from which the mercury has not been removed for reuse or recycling: (1) in a solid waste processing facility; or (2) in a solid waste disposal facility. (c) A fluorescent or high-intensity discharge lamp must be recycled by delivery of the lamp to a lamp recycling facility, as defined in section 116.93, subdivision 1, or to a facility that collects and stores lamps for the purpose of delivering them to a lamp recycling facility, including, but not limited to, a household hazardous waste collection or recycling facility, retailer take-back and utility provider program sites, or other sites designated by an electric utility under section 216B.241, subdivisions 2 and 4. Subd. 2. Enforcement. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a violation of subdivision 1 is subject to enforcement under sections 115.071 and 116.072. (b) A violation of subdivision 1 by a generator of household hazardous waste, as defined in section 115A.96, is not subject to enforcement under section 115.071, subdivision 3. (c) An administrative penalty imposed under section 116.072 for a violation of subdivision 1 by a generator of household hazardous waste, as defined in section 115A.96, may not exceed $700. History:  1992 c 560 s 1; 1993 c 249 s 19; 1997 c 62 s 1; 1997 c 216 s 98; 2007 c 109 s 1; 2010 c 382 s 18; 2014 c 277 s 1
MN Stat § 115A.935 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.935 — Solid Waste Generated Outside Minnesota.

115A.935 SOLID WASTE GENERATED OUTSIDE MINNESOTA. No person shall transport into or deposit in this state, for the purpose of processing or disposal, solid waste that was generated in another state, unless the waste: (1) meets all the solid waste management regulations of the state in which it was generated; and (2) contains none of the items specifically banned from mixed municipal solid waste in this state, including waste tires, motor and vehicle fluids and filters, waste lead acid batteries, yard waste, major appliances, and any other item specifically banned from the waste stream under this chapter. History:  1991 c 337 s 45; 1993 c 249 s 61
MN Stat § 115A.936 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.936 — Construction Debris As Cover Material Prohibited.

115A.936 CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS AS COVER MATERIAL PROHIBITED. (a) Construction debris or residuals from processed construction debris containing any amount of gypsum shall not be managed as cover material at disposal facilities unless: (1) residual material is managed in an industrial or construction and demolition disposal facility equipped with a liner and leachate collection system; (2) residual material is not mechanically pulverized or size-reduced prior to processing, screening, or application; (3) a maximum effort is made to remove gypsum from the waste prior to processing, screening, or application; (4) residual material is mixed at a ratio of one part soil to one part residual material prior to application; and (5) the disposal facility does not accept any amount of cover material greater than what is operationally necessary. (b) For the purposes of this section, "residual material" means construction debris or residuals from processed construction debris containing any amount of gypsum. History:   2008 c 300 s 2
MN Stat § 115A.941 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.941 — Solid Waste; Required Collection.

115A.941 SOLID WASTE; REQUIRED COLLECTION. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), each city, and town described in section 368.01, with a population of 1,000 or more, and any other town with a population of 5,000 or more shall ensure that every residential household and business in the city or town has solid waste collection service. To comply with this section, a city or town may organize collection, provide collection, or require by ordinance that every household and business has a contract for collection services. An ordinance adopted under this section must provide for enforcement. (b) A city or town described in paragraph (a) may exempt a residential household or business in the city or town from the requirement to have solid waste collection service if the household or business ensures that an environmentally sound alternative is used. (c) To the extent practicable, the costs incurred by a city or town under this section must be incorporated into the collection system or the enforcement mechanisms adopted under this section by the city or town. History:  1991 c 337 s 47; 1993 c 249 s 22
MN Stat § 115A.945 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.945 — Visible Costs; Solid Waste Management.

115A.945 VISIBLE COSTS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT. Any political subdivision that provides or pays for the costs of collection or disposal of solid waste shall, through a billing or other system, make the prorated share of those costs for each solid waste generator visible and obvious to the generator. History:   1Sp1989 c 1 art 20 s 9
MN Stat § 115A.95 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.95 — Recyclable Materials.

115A.95 RECYCLABLE MATERIALS. (a) Recyclable materials must be delivered to the appropriate materials processing facility as outlined in rules of the agency or any other facility permitted to recycle or compost the materials. (b) A disposal facility or a resource recovery facility that is composting mixed municipal solid waste, burning waste, or converting waste to energy or to materials for combustion may not accept source-separated recyclable materials, and a solid waste collector or transporter may not deliver source-separated recyclable materials to such a facility, except for recycling or transfer to a recycler, unless the commissioner determines that no other person is willing to accept the recyclable materials. History:  1985 c 274 s 13; 1987 c 348 s 28; 1994 c 585 s 26; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 161; 2011 c 107 s 82
MN Stat § 115A.951 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.951 — Telephone Directories.

115A.951 TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES. Subdivision 1. Definition. For the purposes of this section, a "telephone directory" means a printed list of residential, governmental, or commercial telephone service subscribers or users, or a combination of subscribers or users, that contains more than 7,500 listings and is distributed to the subscribers or users. Subd. 2. Prohibition. A person may not place a telephone directory: (1) in solid waste; (2) in a disposal facility; or (3) in a resource recovery facility, except a recycling facility. Subd. 3. Recyclability. A person may not distribute a telephone directory to any person in this state unless the telephone directory: (1) is printed on paper that is recyclable; (2) is printed with inks that contain no heavy metals or other toxic materials; and (3) is bound with materials that pose no unreasonable barriers to recycling of the directory. Subd. 4. Collecting used directories. Each publisher or distributor of telephone directories shall: (1) provide for the collection and delivery to a recycler of waste telephone directories; (2) inform recipients of directories of the collection system; and (3) submit a report to the agency by August 1 of each year that specifies the percentage of distributed directories collected as waste directories by distribution area and the locations where the waste directories were delivered for recycling and that verifies that the directories have been recycled. History:  1992 c 593 art 1 s 29; 1995 c 247 art 2 s 20; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 161
MN Stat § 115A.952 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.952 — Retail Sale Of Problem Materials; Uniform Labeling And Consumer Information.

115A.952 RETAIL SALE OF PROBLEM MATERIALS; UNIFORM LABELING AND CONSUMER INFORMATION. Subdivision 1. Duties of agency; rules. The agency may adopt rules to identify products that are used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and that constitute a problem material or contain a problem material as defined in section 115A.03, subdivision 24a. The rules may also prescribe a uniform label to be affixed by retailers of identified products as provided in subdivision 4. Packaging that is recyclable or made from recycled material shall not constitute a problem material. Subd. 2. Duties of commissioner of agriculture. The commissioner of agriculture may adopt rules to provide consumer information and retail handling practices for pesticides, as defined in section 18B.01, subdivision 18; fertilizers, plant amendments, and soil amendments, as defined in section 18C.005, subdivisions 11, 25, and 33; and wood preservatives. Subd. 3. Preparing and supplying materials. The agency and the commissioner of agriculture shall prepare and the agency shall supply to retailers, without charge to the retailers, the labels and informational materials required to comply with subdivision 4. Informational materials must include specific instructions on environmentally sound ways to use identified products and to handle them when the products or their containers are discarded. Subd. 4. Duties of retailers. A person who sells or offers for sale at retail any product that is identified pursuant to rules of the agency adopted under subdivision 1 or under rules of the commissioner of agriculture under subdivision 2 shall: (1) affix a uniform label as prescribed by the rules in a prominent location upon or near the display area of the product. If the adjacent display area is a shelf, the label shall be affixed to the price information for the product on the shelf; (2) maintain and prominently display informational materials supplied by the agency at the location where identified products covered by the materials are sold or offered for sale; and (3) comply with the handling practices required under subdivision 2. History:   1Sp1989 c 1 art 20 s 10
MN Stat § 115A.956 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.956 — Solid Waste Disposal; Problem Materials.

115A.956 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL; PROBLEM MATERIALS. Subdivision 1. Problem material; processing and disposal plan. The agency shall develop a plan that designates problem materials and available capacity for processing and disposal of problem materials including household hazardous waste that should not be in mixed municipal solid waste. In developing the plan, the agency shall consider relevant regional characteristics and the impact of problem materials on specific processing and disposal technologies. Subd. 2. Problem material; separation and collection plan. After the agency certifies that sufficient processing and disposal capacity is available, but no later than November 15, 1992, the agency shall develop a plan for separating problem materials from mixed municipal solid waste, collecting the problem materials, and transporting the problem materials to a processing or disposal facility and may by rule prohibit the placement of the designated problem materials in mixed municipal solid waste. History:  1Sp1989 c 1 art 20 s 12; 1991 c 303 s 2; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 161
MN Stat § 115A.9561 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.9561 — Major Appliances.

115A.9561 MAJOR APPLIANCES. Subdivision 1. Prohibitions. A person may not: (1) place major appliances in mixed municipal solid waste; or (2) dispose of major appliances in or on the land or in a solid waste processing or disposal facility. The agency may enforce this section pursuant to sections 115.071 and 116.072. Subd. 2. Recycling required. (a) Major appliances must be recycled or reused. Each county shall ensure that its households have the opportunity to recycle used major appliances. For the purposes of this section, recycling includes: (1) the removal of capacitors that may contain PCBs; (2) the removal of ballasts that may contain PCBs; (3) the removal of chlorofluorocarbon refrigerant gas; and (4) the recycling or reuse of the metals, including mercury. (b) To ensure that the materials removed from a major appliance are not introduced into the environment, an activity described in paragraph (a), clauses (1) to (3), must be conducted in a closed facility if the activity is conducted within 500 feet from the ordinary high-water level of a water basin that is a public water, as those terms are described in section 103G.005, or of a watercourse identified by the public waters inventory under section 103G.201. History:  1Sp1989 c 1 art 20 s 13; 1991 c 337 s 48; 1991 c 347 art 1 s 18; 1992 c 560 s 2; 1994 c 585 s 27; 2002 c 382 art 1 s 3
MN Stat § 115A.9565 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.9565 — Cathode-ray Tube Prohibition.

115A.9565 CATHODE-RAY TUBE PROHIBITION. Effective July 1, 2006, a person may not place in mixed municipal solid waste an electronic product containing a cathode-ray tube. History:  2003 c 128 art 1 s 129; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 132