Section 116.12 — Hazardous Waste Administration Fees.
116.12 HAZARDOUS WASTE ADMINISTRATION FEES. Subdivision 1. Fee schedules. The agency shall establish the fees provided in subdivisions 2 and 3 to cover expenditures of amounts appropriated from the environmental fund to the agency for permitting, monitoring, inspection, and enforcement expenses of the hazardous waste activities of the agency. Subd. 2. Hazardous waste generator; fee. […]
Section 116.125 — Notification Of Fee Increases.
116.125 NOTIFICATION OF FEE INCREASES. Before the Pollution Control Agency adopts a fee increase to cover an unanticipated shortfall in revenues, the commissioner shall give written notice of the proposed increase to the chairs of the senate Committee on Finance, the house of representatives Committee on Ways and Means, the senate and house of representatives […]
Section 116.0717 — Minerals Deposition.
116.0717 MINERALS DEPOSITION. Notwithstanding rules prohibiting discharge of waste into saturated zones or rules governing variance procedures, the Pollution Control Agency may issue a permit for deposition of fine tailings from minerals processing facilities into mine pits provided the proposer demonstrates through an environmental impact statement and risk assessment that the deposition will not pose […]
Section 116.072 — Administrative Penalties.
116.072 ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES. Subdivision 1. Authority to issue penalty orders. (a) The commissioner may issue an order requiring violations to be corrected and administratively assessing monetary penalties for violations of this chapter and chapters 114C, 115, 115A, 115D, and 115E, any rules adopted under those chapters, and any standards, limitations, or conditions established in an […]
Section 116.073 — Field Citations.
116.073 FIELD CITATIONS. Subdivision 1. Authority to issue. (a) Pollution Control Agency staff designated by the commissioner and Department of Natural Resources conservation officers may issue citations to a person who: (1) disposes of solid waste as defined in section 116.06, subdivision 22, at a location not authorized by law for the disposal of solid […]
Section 116.07 — Powers And Duties.
116.07 POWERS AND DUTIES. Subdivision 1. Generally. In addition to any powers or duties otherwise prescribed by law and without limiting the same, the Pollution Control Agency shall have the powers and duties hereinafter specified. Subd. 2. Adopting standards. (a) The Pollution Control Agency shall improve air quality by promoting, in the most practicable way […]
Section 116.071 — Cause Of Action For Abandoning Hazardous Waste On Property Of Another.
116.071 CAUSE OF ACTION FOR ABANDONING HAZARDOUS WASTE ON PROPERTY OF ANOTHER. (a) If an owner of property on which containers of hazardous waste or material which is hazardous waste is abandoned by another disposes of the waste in compliance with all applicable laws and at the owner’s expense, the property owner is entitled to […]
Section 116.0711 — Feedlot Permits; Conditions; County Grants.
116.0711 FEEDLOT PERMITS; CONDITIONS; COUNTY GRANTS. Subdivision 1. Conditions. (a) The agency shall not require feedlot permittees to maintain records as to rainfall or snowfall as a condition of a general feedlot permit if the owner directs the commissioner or agent of the commissioner to appropriate data on precipitation maintained by a government agency or […]
Section 116.0712 — Modified Level One Feedlot Inventory.
116.0712 MODIFIED LEVEL ONE FEEDLOT INVENTORY. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a delegated county that has completed a modified level 1 inventory that includes facility location, approximate number of animal units, and whether the facility is an open lot or confinement operation, may report that information to the agency in aggregate. A feedlot […]
Section 116.0713 — Livestock Odor.
116.0713 LIVESTOCK ODOR. (a) The Pollution Control Agency must: (1) monitor and identify potential livestock facility violations of the state ambient air quality standards for hydrogen sulfide, using a protocol for responding to citizen complaints regarding feedlot odor and its hydrogen sulfide component, including the appropriate use of portable monitoring equipment that enables monitoring staff […]