Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

115B.441 INSURANCE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT AND RECOVERY PROCESS; FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. (a) The legislature finds that: (1) insurers have issued certain insurance policies to their policyholders that may have provided coverage for environmental response costs related to qualified facili…

115B.442 SETTLEMENT PROCESS; INFORMATION GATHERING. § Subdivision 1.Selecting qualified facilities. The commissioner and the attorney general shall select qualified facilities for which they intend to make offers of settlement to insurers under section 115B.443. The first group o…

115B.443 SETTLEMENT PROCESS. § Subdivision 1.Determining facility costs. Beginning not later than one year after selection of a qualified facility under section 115B.442, subdivision 1, the commissioner shall determine the current total estimated amount of environmental response …

115B.444 STATE ACTION AGAINST INSURERS. § Subdivision 1.State action. The state, by the attorney general, may bring a state action against any insurer for recovery of all environmental response costs incurred and to be incurred by the state, which costs are related to qualified f…

115B.445 DEPOSITING PROCEEDS. All amounts paid to the state by an insurer pursuant to any settlement under section 115B.443 or judgment under section 115B.444 must be deposited in the state treasury and credited equally to the remediation fund and the closed landfill investment f…

115B.47 CITATION. Sections 115B.47 to 115B.51 may be cited as the "Dry Cleaner Environmental Response and Reimbursement Law." History: 1995 c 252 s 1

115B.48 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. The definitions in section 115B.02 and this section apply to sections 115B.47 to 115B.51. § Subd. 2.Dry cleaner environmental response and reimbursement account; account. "Dry cleaner environmental response and reimbursement acc…

115B.49 DRY CLEANER ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE AND REIMBURSEMENT ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. The dry cleaner environmental response and reimbursement account is established as an account in the remediation fund. § Subd. 2.Revenue sources. Revenue from the following source…

115B.491 DRY CLEANING FACILITY USE FEE; FACILITIES TO FILE RETURN. § Subdivision 1.Use fee. A dry cleaning facility that purchases dry cleaning solvents for use in Minnesota without paying the seller of dry cleaning solvents the fee under section 115B.49, subdivision 4, paragraph…

115B.492 ALLOCATING PAYMENT. In the discretion of the commissioner of revenue, payments received for fees may be credited first to the oldest liability not secured by a judgment or lien. For liabilities to which payments are applied, the commissioner of revenue may credit payment…

115B.50 RESPONSE ACTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Response actions by commissioner. (a) In accordance with the priority list established under section 115B.17, subdivision 13, the commissioner shall take all response actions at or related to a dry cleaning facility that the commissioner …

115B.51 ILLEGAL ACTIONS. The commissioner may recover under section 115B.17, subdivision 6, that portion of the environmental response costs at a dry cleaning facility that is attributable to a person who otherwise would be responsible for the release or threatened release under …

115B.52 WATER QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section and section 115B.53, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "East metropolitan area" includes but is not limited to the cities of Woodbury, Oakdale, Lake Elmo…

115B.53 WATER QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY STAKEHOLDERS. The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency and the commissioner of natural resources must work with stakeholders to identify and recommend projects to receive funding from the water quality and sustainability account un…