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MN Stat § 115A.0716 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.0716 — Environmental Assistance Grant And Loan Program.

115A.0716 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE GRANT AND LOAN PROGRAM. Subdivision 1. Grants. (a) The commissioner may make grants to any person for the purpose of researching, developing, and implementing projects or practices related to collection, processing, recycling, reuse, resource recovery, source reduction, and prevention of waste, hazardous substances, toxic pollutants, and problem materials; the development or implementation of pollution prevention projects or practices; the collection, recovery, processing, purchasing, or market development of recyclable materials or compost; resource conservation; and for environmental education. (b) In making grants, the agency may give priority to projects or practices that have broad application in the state and are consistent with the policies established under sections 115A.02 and 115D.02. (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules to administer the grant program. (d) For the purposes of this section: (1) "pollution prevention" has the meaning given it in section 115D.03; (2) "toxic pollutant" has the meaning given it in section 115D.03; and (3) "hazardous substance" has the meaning given it in section 115D.03. Subd. 2. Loans. (a) The commissioner may make loans, or participate in loans, for capital costs or improvements related to any of the activities listed in subdivision 1. (b) The commissioner may work with financial institutions or other financial assistance providers in participating in loans under this section. The commissioner may contract with financial institutions or other financial assistance providers for loan processing and/or administration. (c) The commissioner may also make grants, as authorized in subdivision 1, to enable persons to receive loans from financial institutions or to reduce interest payments for those loans. (d) In making loans, the agency may give priority to projects or practices that have broad application in the state and are consistent with the policies established under sections 115A.02 and 115D.02. (e) The commissioner shall adopt rules to administer the loan program. Subd. 3. Revolving account. All repayments of loans awarded under this section, including principal and interest, must be credited to the environmental fund. Money deposited in the fund under this section is annually appropriated to the commissioner for loans for purposes identified in subdivisions 1 and 2. History:  1996 c 470 s 6; 1Sp2001 c 2 s 122; 2003 c 128 art 2 s 5; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 161; 2006 c 212 art 3 s 8
MN Stat § 115A.072 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.072 — Public Education.

115A.072 PUBLIC EDUCATION. Subdivision 1. Environmental education programs. The commissioner shall provide for the development and implementation of environmental education programs that are designed to meet the goals listed in section 115A.073. Subd. 2. Waste management education. In addition to the commissioner's general duties established in subdivision 1, the commissioner shall: (1) develop a statewide waste management public education campaign with materials that may be easily adapted by political subdivisions to meet their program needs; and (2) develop and make available to schools educational curricula on waste education for grades kindergarten to 12 to address at least waste reduction, recycling, litter, and proper management and disposal of problem materials. Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1996 c 470 s 28] Subd. 4. Waste reduction and reuse program; procurement. The commissioner shall include: (1) waste reduction and reuse, including packaging reduction and reuse; and (2) the hazards of open burning, as defined in section 88.01, of mixed municipal solid waste, especially the hazards of dioxin emissions to children, as elements of the commissioner's program of public education on waste management required under this section. The waste reduction and reuse education program must include dissemination of information and may include an award program for model waste reduction and reuse efforts. Waste reduction and reuse educational efforts must also include provision of information about and promotion of the model procurement program developed by the commissioner of administration under section 115A.15, subdivision 7, or any other model procurement program that results in significant waste reduction and reuse. History:  1987 c 348 s 4; 1Sp1989 c 1 art 21 s 1; 1991 c 345 art 2 s 19; 1994 c 480 s 7; 1994 c 585 s 4; 1994 c 639 art 5 s 3; 1995 c 247 art 1 s 4,5; art 2 s 3; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1996 c 412 art 9 s 1; 1998 c 397 art 11 s 3; 2003 c 130 s 12; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 128,161; 2011 c 76 art 1 s 6
MN Stat § 115A.073 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.073 — Environmental Education Goals And Plan.

115A.073 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GOALS AND PLAN. The environmental education program described in this section and section 115A.074 has these goals for the pupils and other citizens of this state: (a) Pupils and citizens should be able to apply informed decision-making processes to maintain a sustainable lifestyle. In order to do so, citizens should: (1) understand ecological systems; (2) understand the cause and effect relationship between human attitudes and behavior and the environment; (3) be able to evaluate alternative responses to environmental issues before deciding on alternative courses of action; and (4) understand the effects of multiple uses of the environment. (b) Pupils and citizens shall have access to information and experiences needed to make informed decisions about actions to take on environmental issues. (c) For the purposes of this section and section 115A.074, "state plan" means "Greenprint for Minnesota: A State Plan for Environmental Education." History:  1990 c 595 s 1; 1993 c 224 art 12 s 32; 1993 c 374 s 22; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 11 s 3,20; 1998 c 397 art 3 s 98,103; art 11 s 3
MN Stat § 115A.074 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.074 — Environmental Education Resource Centers.

115A.074 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTERS. Subdivision 1. Establishment. The commissioner may establish environmental education resource centers throughout the state as needed. The environmental education resource centers shall serve as a source of information and programs for citizens, provide ongoing contact with the public for feedback to the commissioner on regional environmental education issues and priorities, and serve as distribution centers for environmental education programs. Subd. 2. Duties. The resource centers shall: (1) implement the programs and priorities of the agency as defined in the plan; (2) convey regional program priorities to the commissioner; (3) evaluate regional implementation of environmental education programs and report to the commissioner on the evaluations; (4) provide regional liaison and coordination for organizations, agencies, and individuals providing environmental education programs on particular issues; (5) be a distribution and publicity center for agencies, environmental organizations, environmental learning center publications, programs, and services; (6) be a central source of information for citizens interested in issues that are the responsibility of many agencies, boards, task forces, and organizations; (7) provide technical assistance to local and state organizations and agencies on program design, promotion, and publicity to reach the chosen target audiences; and (8) assist the service cooperatives by collecting and distributing environmental education teaching materials, displays, computer programs, resource person lists, and audio-visual aids, and provide assistance with teacher training workshops and programs on request. History:  1990 c 595 s 6; 1996 c 305 art 1 s 138; 1998 c 397 art 3 s 103; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 161
MN Stat § 115A.075 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.075 — Legislative Policy Against Disposal Of Hazardous Waste.

115A.075 LEGISLATIVE POLICY AGAINST DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTE. (a) The legislature finds that hazardous waste must be managed in a manner that protects the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the state and protects and conserves the state's natural resources and environment; that reduction of the amount of waste generated and processing, treatment, separation, and resource recovery are the preferred methods to manage hazardous waste; and that disposal of hazardous waste should be used only as a last resort when all other management methods are ineffective, and then only if an environmentally suitable site can be identified in the state. (b) The agency, in its planning, facility approval, and other activities related to hazardous waste shall give first priority to eliminating the generation of hazardous waste and eliminating or reducing the hazardous character of the waste generated in the state through processing, treatment, separation, and resource recovery. History:  1984 c 644 s 4; 1989 c 335 art 1 s 269; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 161
MN Stat § 115A.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.10 — Duties Of Pollution Control Agency; Hazardous Waste Facilities; Encouraging Private Enterprise.

115A.10 DUTIES OF POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY; HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITIES; ENCOURAGING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. The agency and the commissioner on behalf of the agency shall encourage the development and operation of hazardous waste facilities by private enterprise to the extent practicable and consistent with the purposes of sections 115A.01 to 115A.72 and the agency's hazardous waste management plan adopted pursuant to section 115A.11. In adopting the management plan, and in its actions and decisions under sections 115A.18 to 115A.30 and 115A.32 to 115A.39, the agency and the commissioner on behalf of the agency shall solicit the active participation of private waste management firms and shall so conduct its activities as to encourage private permit applications for facilities needed in the state. History:  1980 c 564 art 2 s 7; 1983 c 373 s 14; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 335 art 1 s 269; 1997 c 7 art 1 s 27; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 161
MN Stat § 115A.121 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.121 — Toxics And Pollution Prevention Evaluation; Consolidated Report.

115A.121 TOXICS AND POLLUTION PREVENTION EVALUATION; CONSOLIDATED REPORT. The commissioner shall prepare and adopt a report on pollution prevention activities required in chapters 115A, 115D, and 325E. The report must include activities required under section 115A.1320. The commissioner must submit the report to the senate and house of representatives committees having jurisdiction over environment and natural resources by December 31, 2013, and every four years thereafter. History:   2012 c 272 s 63
MN Stat § 115A.1322 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.1322 — Other Recycling Programs.

115A.1322 OTHER RECYCLING PROGRAMS. A city, county, or other public agency may not require households to use public facilities to recycle their covered electronic devices to the exclusion of other lawful programs available. Cities, counties, and other public agencies, including those awarded contracts by the agency under section 115A.1314, subdivision 2, are encouraged to work with manufacturers to assist them in meeting their recycling obligations under section 115A.1318, subdivision 1. Nothing in sections 115A.1310 to 115A.1330 prohibits or restricts the operation of any program recycling covered electronic devices in addition to those provided by manufacturers or prohibits or restricts any persons from receiving, collecting, transporting, or recycling covered electronic devices, provided that those persons are registered under section 115A.1312. History:   2007 c 48 s 7
MN Stat § 115A.1323 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.1323 — Anticompetitive Conduct.

115A.1323 ANTICOMPETITIVE CONDUCT. (a) A manufacturer that organizes collection or recycling under sections 115A.1310 to 115A.1322 is authorized to engage in anticompetitive conduct to the extent necessary to plan and implement its chosen organized collection or recycling system and is immune from liability under state laws relating to antitrust, restraint of trade, unfair trade practices, and other regulation of trade or commerce. (b) An organization of manufacturers, an individual manufacturer, and its officers, members, employees, and agents who cooperate with a political subdivision that organizes collection or recycling under this section are authorized to engage in anticompetitive conduct to the extent necessary to plan and implement the organized collection or recycling system, provided that the political subdivision actively supervises the participation of each entity. An organization, entity, or person covered by this paragraph is immune from liability under state law relating to antitrust, restraint of trade, unfair trade practices, and other regulation of trade or commerce. History:  2007 c 48 s 8; 2016 c 166 s 16
MN Stat § 115A.1324 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.1324 — Requirements For Purchases By State Agencies.

115A.1324 REQUIREMENTS FOR PURCHASES BY STATE AGENCIES. (a) The Department of Administration must ensure that acquisitions of video display devices under chapter 16C are in compliance with or not subject to sections 115A.1310 to 115A.1318. (b) The solicitation documents must specify that the prospective responder is required to cooperate fully in providing reasonable access to its records and documents that evidence compliance with paragraph (a) and sections 115A.1310 to 115A.1318. (c) Any person awarded a contract under chapter 16C for purchase or lease of video display devices that is found to be in violation of paragraph (a) or sections 115A.1310 to 115A.1318 is subject to the following sanctions: (1) the contract must be voided if the commissioner of administration determines that the potential adverse impact to the state is exceeded by the benefit obtained from voiding the contract; (2) the contractor is subject to suspension and disbarment under Minnesota Rules, part 1230.1150; and (3) if the attorney general establishes that any money, property, or benefit was obtained by a contractor as a result of violating paragraph (a) or sections 115A.1310 to 115A.1318, the court may, in addition to any other remedy, order the disgorgement of the unlawfully obtained money, property, or benefit. History:   2007 c 48 s 9
MN Stat § 115A.1326 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.1326 — Regulating Video Display Devices.

115A.1326 REGULATING VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICES. If the United States Environmental Protection Agency adopts regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regarding the handling, storage, or treatment of any type of video display device being recycled, those regulations are automatically effective in this state on the same date and supersede any rules previously adopted by the agency regarding the handling, storage, or treatment of all video display devices being recycled. History:   2007 c 48 s 10
MN Stat § 115A.1328 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.1328 — Multistate Implementation.

115A.1328 MULTISTATE IMPLEMENTATION. The agency and department are authorized to participate in the establishment of a regional multistate organization or compact to assist in carrying out the requirements of this chapter. History:   2007 c 48 s 11
MN Stat § 115A.1330 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.1330 — Limitations.

115A.1330 LIMITATIONS. Sections 115A.1310 to 115A.1330 expire if a federal law, or combination of federal laws, take effect that is applicable to all video display devices sold in the United States and establish a program for the collection and recycling or reuse of video display devices that is applicable to all video display devices discarded by households. History:   2007 c 48 s 12
MN Stat § 115A.142 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.142 — Report To Legislature And Governor.

115A.142 REPORT TO LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR. As part of the report required under section 115A.121, the commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency shall provide a report to the governor and the legislature on the implementation of section 115A.1415. History:   2013 c 114 art 4 s 79
MN Stat § 115A.151 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.151 — Recycling Requirements; Public Entities; Commercial Buildings; Sports Facilities.

115A.151 RECYCLING REQUIREMENTS; PUBLIC ENTITIES; COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS; SPORTS FACILITIES. (a) A public entity, the owner of a sports facility, and an owner of a commercial building shall: (1) ensure that facilities under its control, from which mixed municipal solid waste is collected, also collect at least three recyclable materials, such as, but not limited to, paper, glass, plastic, and metal; and (2) transfer all recyclable materials collected to a recycler. (b) For the purposes of this section: (1) "public entity" means the state, an office, agency, or institution of the state, the Metropolitan Council, a metropolitan agency, the Metropolitan Mosquito Control Commission, the legislature, the courts, a county, a statutory or home rule charter city, a town, a school district, a special taxing district, or any entity that receives an appropriation from the state for a capital improvement project after August 1, 2002; (2) "metropolitan agency" and "Metropolitan Council" have the meanings given them in section 473.121; (3) "Metropolitan Mosquito Control Commission" means the commission created in section 473.702; (4) "commercial building" means a building that: (i) is located in a metropolitan county, as defined in section 473.121; (ii) contains a business classified in sectors 42 to 81 under the North American Industrial Classification System; and (iii) contracts for four cubic yards or more per week of solid waste collection; and (5) "sports facility" means a professional or collegiate sports facility at which competitions take place before a public audience. History:  1Sp1989 c 1 art 18 s 9; 1991 c 337 s 12; 1996 c 457 s 10; 2002 c 312 s 2; 2014 c 225 s 4; 2014 c 312 art 13 s 24
MN Stat § 115A.18 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.18 — Legislative Findings; Purpose.

115A.18 LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS; PURPOSE. The legislature finds that proper management of hazardous waste generated in the state is needed to conserve and protect the natural resources in the state and the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens, that the establishment of safe commercial disposal facilities in the state may be necessary and practicable to properly manage the waste, that this cannot be accomplished solely by the activities of private persons and political subdivisions acting alone or jointly, and that therefore it is necessary to provide a procedure for making final determinations on whether commercial stabilization and containment facilities should be established in the state and on the locations, sizes, types, and functions of any such facilities. History:  1980 c 564 art 3 s 1; 1984 c 644 s 17; 1986 c 425 s 47
MN Stat § 115A.19 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.19 — Procedure Not Exclusive.

115A.19 PROCEDURE NOT EXCLUSIVE. Except as provided in Minnesota Statutes 1980, section 115A.21, subdivision 1, the procedure established by sections 115A.18 to 115A.30 for the permitting of hazardous waste stabilization and containment facilities shall not preclude the issuance of permits by the agency pursuant to section 116.07 for stabilization and containment facilities at sites not reviewed under sections 115A.18 to 115A.30. History:  1980 c 564 art 3 s 2; 1981 c 352 s 12; 1986 c 425 s 47
MN Stat § 115A.192 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection|Chapter 115A — Waste Management|Section 115A.192 — Request For Proposals; Stabilization And Containment Facility.

115A.192 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS; STABILIZATION AND CONTAINMENT FACILITY. Subdivision 1. Request for proposals. The commissioner shall issue requests for proposals for the development and operation of a stabilization and containment facility. The request must be designed to obtain detailed information about the qualifications of a respondent to develop and operate the facility; the capital and operating costs of the facility and the sources and methods by which the respondent plans to finance the facility; the technical specifications of the proposed facility and the technologies to be employed for processing, stabilization, containment, and monitoring; the requirements of the site for the proposed facility; the schedule for developing and commencing operation of the facility; and other matters which the commissioner deems necessary for the agency to evaluate and select a developer and operator for the facility. Before issuing the requests, the commissioner shall prepare a draft of clauses (a) to (e) of the report required by section 115A.193. The draft must accompany the requests for proposals. Subd. 2. Selection of developer; procedure. After evaluating responses to the request for proposals and before selecting a site as provided in section 115A.194, the agency shall decide whether to select a developer for a stabilization and containment facility. If the agency selects a developer it shall proceed as provided in section 115A.194 to select a site for the development of a facility. If the agency decides not to select a developer, the agency shall proceed as provided in section 115A.194 to select and acquire a site for potential future development of a facility. History:  1986 c 425 s 25; 1989 c 335 art 1 s 269; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 161