Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

116C.06 HEARINGS. § Subdivision 1.Process. The board shall hold public hearings on matters that it determines to be of major environmental impact. The board shall prescribe by rule in conformity to the provisions of chapter 14, the procedures for the conduct of all hearings and r…

116C.08 FEDERAL FUNDS; DONATIONS. The board may apply for, receive, and disburse federal funds made available to the state by federal law or rules promulgated thereunder for any purpose related to the powers and duties of the board. The board shall comply with any and all require…

116C.34 BUREAU OF BUSINESS LICENSES. § Subdivision 1.Purpose. The Bureau of Business Licenses shall establish and maintain an information and referral system to assist the public in the understanding and compliance with the requirements of state and local governmental rules conce…

116C.705 FINDINGS. The legislature finds that the disposal and transportation of high-level radioactive waste is of vital concern to the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Minnesota, and to the economic and environmental resources of Minnesota. To ensure the health, saf…

116C.71 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. For the purposes of sections 116C.71 to 116C.74, the terms defined in this section have the meaning given them. § Subd. 1a.Area characterization plan. "Area characterization plan" means the official plan prepared by the Departme…

116C.711 NUCLEAR WASTE COUNCIL. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. The governor's Nuclear Waste Council is established. § Subd. 2.Membership. (a) The council shall have at least nine members, consisting of: (1) the commissioners of health, transportation, and natural resources, and t…

116C.72 RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY. Notwithstanding any provision of sections 216C.05 to 216C.381 to the contrary, no person shall construct or operate a radioactive waste management facility within Minnesota unless expressly authorized by the Minnesota legislature. Hi…

116C.721 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. § Subdivision 1.Information meetings. The board shall conduct public information meetings within an area designated in a draft area recommendation report, final area recommendation report, draft area characterization plan, or final area characteriza…

116C.722 LEGAL AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIAN TRIBES. If an Indian tribal council that has jurisdiction over part of a potentially impacted area within the state requests legal or technical assistance, the board shall provide assistance. History: 1984 c 453 s 12

116C.723 CONSULTATION AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Requirement. Upon notice from the Department of Energy that Minnesota contains a potentially impacted area, the chair of the council shall negotiate a consultation and cooperation agreement with the federal governme…

116C.724 DRILLING PERMITS; ACCESS TO TEST DATA; PUBLIC MEETINGS; NEGOTIATIONS. § Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 1Sp1985 c 13 s 245] § Subd. 2.Drilling. A permit shall be obtained from the Environmental Quality Board, in accordance with chapter 14, for any geologic and hydrologic drill…

116C.73 TRANSPORTING RADIOACTIVE WASTES INTO STATE. Notwithstanding any provision of sections 216C.05 to 216C.381 to the contrary, no person shall transport radioactive wastes into the state of Minnesota for the purpose of disposal by burial in soil or permanent storage within Mi…

116C.731 TRANSPORTING HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE. § Subdivision 1.Notification. Before a shipment of high-level radioactive waste is transported in the state, the shipper shall notify the commissioner of public safety. The notice shall include the route, date, and time of the s…

116C.74 PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.Penalties. Any person who violates section 116C.72 or who causes radioactive wastes to be shipped in violation of section 116C.73 shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $20,000 or a sentence of imprisonment…

116C.75 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. The definitions in this section apply to this section and section 116C.76. § Subd. 2.Groundwater. "Groundwater" means the water contained below the surface of the earth in the saturated zone including, without limitation, all wa…

116C.76 NUCLEAR WASTE DEPOSITORY; RELEASE INTO GROUNDWATER. § Subdivision 1.Radionuclide release levels. Radioactive waste management facilities for spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive wastes must be designed to provide a reasonable expectation that the undisturbed perfo…

116C.77 LEGISLATIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION AT PRAIRIE ISLAND. (a) The legislature recognizes that: (1) the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board on May 16, 1991, reviewed and found adequate a final environmental impact statement ("EIS") on t…

116C.771 ADDITIONAL CASK LIMITATIONS. (a) Five casks may be filled and used at Prairie Island on May 11, 1994. (b) An additional four casks may be filled and used at Prairie Island if the Environmental Quality Board determines that, by December 31, 1996, the public utility operat…

116C.772 PUBLIC UTILITY RESPONSIBILITIES. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For the purpose of this section, "public utility" means the public utility operating the Prairie Island nuclear generating plant. § Subd. 2.Dry cask alternatives study. The public utility must submit to the Leg…

116C.773 CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT. The authorization for dry casks contained in section 116C.77 is not effective until the governor, on behalf of the state, and the public utility operating the Prairie Island nuclear plant enter into an agreement binding the parties to the terms of …

116C.774 AUTHORIZATION. To the extent that the Radioactive Waste Management Act, section 116C.72, requires legislative authorization of the operation of certain facilities, this section expressly authorizes the continued operation of the Monticello nuclear generating plant spent …

116C.775 SHIPMENT PRIORITIES; NUCLEAR PLANTS. If a storage or disposal site becomes available outside of the state to accept high-level nuclear waste stored at Prairie Island or Monticello, the waste contained in dry casks shall be shipped to that site before the shipment of any …

116C.776 ALTERNATIVE CASK TECHNOLOGY FOR SPENT FUEL STORAGE. If the Public Utilities Commission determines that casks or other containers that allow for transportation as well as storage of spent nuclear fuel exist and are economically feasible for storage and transportation of s…

116C.777 SITE. The spent fuel contents of dry casks located on Prairie Island must be moved immediately upon the availability of another site for storage of the spent fuel that is not located on Prairie Island or at Monticello. History: 1994 c 641 art 1 s 8; 2007 c 57 art 2 s 8

116C.778 RERACKING. The spent fuel storage pool at Prairie Island may be reracked a third time. The reracking does not require legislative authorization but is subject to other applicable state review. The additional storage capacity added by the third reracking and utilized when…

116C.779 FUNDING FOR RENEWABLE DEVELOPMENT. § Subdivision 1.Renewable development account. (a) The renewable development account is established as a separate account in the special revenue fund in the state treasury. Appropriations and transfers to the account shall be credited t…

116C.7791 REBATES FOR SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (a) "Installation" means an array of solar photovoltaic modules attached to a building that will use the electricity genera…

116C.7792 SOLAR ENERGY PRODUCTION INCENTIVE PROGRAM. (a) The utility subject to section 116C.779 shall operate a program to provide solar energy production incentives for solar energy systems of no more than a total aggregate nameplate capacity of 40 kilowatts alternating current…

116C.83 AUTHORIZATION FOR ADDITIONAL DRY CASK STORAGE. § Subdivision 1.Authorization to end of current Prairie Island license. Subject to the dry cask storage limits of the federal license for the independent spent-fuel storage installation at Prairie Island, the public utility t…

116C.831 MIDWEST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE COMPACT. The Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact is enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: ARTICLE I. POLICY AND PURPOSE Ther…

116C.832 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Terms defined in compact. The terms defined in article II of the Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact have the meanings given them for the purposes of sections 116C.833 to 116C.849. § Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1996 c 428 s 14] § S…

116C.833 COMPACT COMMISSION MEMBER. § Subdivision 1.Commissioner. The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency shall serve as Minnesota's voting member of the Interstate Commission. The commissioner shall tender the state's membership fee to the Interstate Commission by Augus…

116C.834 ASSESSMENT OF GENERATORS. § Subdivision 1.Costs. All costs incurred by the state to carry out its responsibilities under the compact and under sections 116C.833 to 116C.843 shall be paid by generators of low-level radioactive waste in this state through fees assessed by …

116C.835 ENFORCING COMPACT AND LAWS. § Subdivision 1.Criminal penalties. (a) Any person who willfully or negligently violates any provision of the compact upon conviction is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is subject to a fine of not more than $2,500 in the event of a willful violat…

116C.836 ACTIONS CONCERNING INTERSTATE COMMISSION AND PARTY STATES. § Subdivision 1.Enforcing commission decisions. A final decision of the Interstate Commission in any matter within its jurisdiction may be enforced by the attorney general in the name of the state in any court of…

116C.838 EFFECT ON EXISTING STATE LAW. Except as otherwise provided in section 116C.842, subdivision 4, it is the intent of this state as a party to the compact to apply and enforce its laws and rules relating to environmental review, siting of facilities, and protection of the e…

116C.840 DUTY TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. § Subdivision 1.Required information. Any generators of low-level radioactive waste and any person engaged in transporting or disposing of low-level radioactive waste, when requested by the agency or any member, employee, or agent thereof who…

116C.842 CONTINGENT PROVISIONS. § Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 1996 c 428 s 14] § Subd. 1a.Facility Siting Policy Development Committee. Following Minnesota's designation as a host state by the Interstate Commission, and within 60 days after a compact facility located in the host st…

116C.843 CONGRESSIONAL CONDITIONS ON COMPACT CONSENT. In the event that congressional consent to the compact carries with it conditions that materially change the provisions agreed to by the party states, the state reserves the option to terminate further participation in the com…

116C.849 SITING CRITERIA. In making its facility siting policy recommendations to the governor and the legislature, the committee shall consider health, safety, and environmental protection above all other siting criteria. History: 1996 c 428 s 13

116C.91 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. As used in sections 116C.91 to 116C.97, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Board. "Board" means the Environmental Quality Board. § Subd. 3.Genetic engineering. "Genetic engineering" means the intro…

116C.92 COORDINATING ACTIVITIES. § Subdivision 1.State coordinating organization. The Environmental Quality Board is designated the state coordinating organization for state and federal regulatory activities relating to genetically engineered organisms. § Subd. 2.Notice of nation…

116C.94 RULES. § Subdivision 1.General authority. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), the board shall adopt rules consistent with sections 116C.91 to 116C.96 that require an environmental assessment worksheet and otherwise comply with chapter 116D and rules adopted under it …

116C.95 LIABILITY. Rules established by the board under section 116C.94 shall not affect liability under any other law or regulation for adverse effects resulting from activities relating to genetically engineered organisms. History: 1989 c 346 s 6

116C.96 COST REIMBURSEMENT. The board shall assess the proposer of a release for the necessary and reasonable costs of processing exemptions from a release permit under rules authorized by sections 116C.94, subdivisions 1, 3, and 4, and 116C.97, subdivision 2, paragraph (c), or a…

116C.97 EXEMPTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Human gene therapy. The requirements of sections 116C.91 to 116C.96 and of the rules of the board adopted pursuant to section 116C.94 do not apply to genetic engineering of human germ cells and human somatic cells intended for use in human gene…