Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

216F.08 MS 2022 [Repealed, 2024 c 126 art 7 s 15; 2024 c 127 art 43 s 15] NOTE: The renumbering instruction and repeals made to this chapter by Laws 2024, chapter 126, article 7, sections 14 and 15, and Laws 2024, chapter 127, article 43, sections 14 and 15, are effective July 1,…

216F.081 MS 2022 [Repealed, 2024 c 126 art 7 s 15; 2024 c 127 art 43 s 15] NOTE: The renumbering instruction and repeals made to this chapter by Laws 2024, chapter 126, article 7, sections 14 and 15, and Laws 2024, chapter 127, article 43, sections 14 and 15, are effective July 1…

216F.084 [Renumbered 216I.19] NOTE: The renumbering instruction and repeals made to this chapter by Laws 2024, chapter 126, article 7, sections 14 and 15, and Laws 2024, chapter 127, article 43, sections 14 and 15, are effective July 1, 2025. Laws 2024, chapter 126, article 7, se…

216F.09 MS 2010 [Repealed, 2011 c 97 s 34] NOTE: The renumbering instruction and repeals made to this chapter by Laws 2024, chapter 126, article 7, sections 14 and 15, and Laws 2024, chapter 127, article 43, sections 14 and 15, are effective July 1, 2025. Laws 2024, chapter 126, …

216G.01 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. As used in this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them, unless otherwise provided or indicated by the context. § Subd. 2.Construction. "Construction" means any clearing of land, excavation, or other acti…

216G.02 ROUTING OF CERTAIN PIPELINES. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms defined in this subdivision have the meanings given. (b) "Gas" means natural gas, flammable gas, carbon dioxide, gas that is toxic, or gas that is corrosive, r…

216G.025 ROUTING PERMIT; ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW; CARBON DIOXIDE PIPELINES. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Carbon dioxide pipeline" means a pipeline located in Minnesota that transports carbon diox…

216G.03 PIPELINE PROPOSAL; EASEMENT ACQUISITION. § Subdivision 1.Compliance; penalty. Any person proposing to construct or operate a pipeline shall comply with the provisions of this section before negotiating or acquiring any easement or right-of-way agreement for that purpose. …

216G.04 INFORMATION BOOK. (a) Within 45 days after receiving the notification and fee required by section 216G.03, the Public Utilities Commission shall prepare and make available to the person proposing to construct the pipeline sufficient copies of an information book for owner…

216G.05 PUBLIC MEETINGS REQUIRED. (a) Within 60 days of receiving notification as provided in section 216G.03, the county board of each county in which the pipeline route is proposed to be located shall hold a public meeting as provided in this section. If a county board receives…

216G.06 INTERSTATE GAS PIPELINES EXEMPT UNDER FEDERAL LAW. Any person that proposes to construct or operate an interstate natural gas pipeline and that has power to acquire an easement or right-of-way agreement for that pipeline by an action in eminent domain under the authority …

216G.07 PROTECTING PUBLIC FACILITIES AND AGRICULTURAL LAND. § Subdivision 1.Depth of cover. Unless waived in the manner provided in subdivisions 2 or 3, any pipeline installed after May 26, 1979, shall be buried with a minimum level cover of not less than 4-1/2 feet in all areas …

216G.08 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. § Subdivision 1.General rule. Any owner or lessee of any real property or any person acting with the authority of that owner or lessee who, in the ordinary conduct of agricultural operations upon that property, causes any injury to any underground…

216G.09 REVERSION OF EASEMENTS. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all easement interests acquired after May 26, 1979 for the purpose of constructing and operating a pipeline shall revert to the then fee owner if the pipeline ceases operation for a period of five years. His…

216G.10 RECORDING OF SURVEY POINTS. The permanent location of monuments or markers found or placed in a survey of right-of-way for a pipeline route shall be placed on record in the office of the county recorder or registrar of titles by the owner of the pipeline. No fee shall be …

216G.11 SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this chapter is found to be unconstitutional and void with respect to pipelines transporting one or more of the substances enumerated in section 216G.01, subdivision 3, the provision shall remain effective with respect to pipelines transp…

216G.12 SAVINGS PROVISION. Sections 216G.03 to 216G.05 shall not apply to a pipeline if, on or before May 26, 1979: (1) an application for a certificate of need has been filed for the pipeline pursuant to section 216B.243 and easements have been acquired for at least 85 percent o…

216H.01 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. For the purpose of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 1a.Cogeneration facility or combined heat and power facility. "Cogeneration facility" or "combined heat and power facility" means a…

216H.02 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS CONTROL. § Subdivision 1.Greenhouse gas emissions-reduction goal. (a) It is the goal of the state to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors producing greenhouse gas emissions by at least the following amounts, compared with t…

216H.021 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REPORTING. § Subdivision 1.Commissioner to establish reporting system and maintain inventory. In order to measure the progress in meeting the goals of section 216H.02, subdivision 1, and to provide information to develop strategies to achieve tho…

216H.03 FAILURE TO ADOPT GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL PLAN. § Subdivision 1.Definition; new large energy facility. For the purpose of this section, "new large energy facility" means a large energy facility, as defined in section 216B.2421, subdivision 2, clause (1), that is not in oper…

216H.06 EMISSIONS CONSIDERATION IN RESOURCE PLANNING. By January 1, 2008, the Public Utilities Commission shall establish an estimate of the likely range of costs of future carbon dioxide regulation on electricity generation. The estimate, which may be made in a commission order,…

216H.07 EMISSIONS-REDUCTION ATTAINMENT; POLICY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For the purpose of this section, "reductions" means the greenhouse gas emissions-reductions goals specified in section 216H.02, subdivision 1. § Subd. 2.Purpose. This section is intend…

216H.10 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. For purposes of sections 216H.10 to 216H.13, the following terms have the meanings given. § Subd. 2.Agency. "Agency" means the Pollution Control Agency. § Subd. 3.Carbon dioxide equivalent. "Carbon dioxide equivalent" means the …

216H.11 HIGH-GWP GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING. § Subdivision 1.Gas manufacturers. By October 1 each year, a manufacturer of a high-GWP greenhouse gas must report to the agency the total amount of each high-GWP greenhouse gas sold to a purchaser in this state during the previous year.…

216H.12 MOBILE AIR CONDITIONER LEAKAGE RATES; DISCLOSURE. § Subdivision 1.Leakage disclosure. Beginning January 1, 2009, a manufacturer selling or offering for sale a new motor vehicle in this state containing a mobile air conditioner that uses the high-GWP greenhouse gas HFC-134…

216H.13 ENFORCEMENT. Sections 216H.10 to 216H.12 may be enforced under section 116.072. History: 2008 c 296 art 1 s 24

216I.01 CITATION.This chapter may be cited as the "Minnesota Energy Infrastructure Permitting Act."History: 2024 c 126 art 7 s 1; 2024 c 127 art 43 s 1 NOTE: This chapter, as added by Laws 2024, chapter 126, articles 7 and 9, and Laws 2024, chapter 127, articles 43 and 45, is eff…

216I.02 DEFINITIONS.§Subdivision 1.Applicability.For purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given, unless context clearly indicates or provides otherwise.§Subd. 2.Associated facility."Associated facility" means a building, equipment, communi…

216I.03 SITING AUTHORITY.§Subdivision 1.Policy.The legislature hereby declares it is the policy of the state to locate large electric power facilities in an orderly manner that is compatible with environmental preservation and the efficient use of resources. In accordance with th…

216I.04 APPLICABILITY DETERMINATION.§Subdivision 1.Generally.This section may be used to determine: (1) whether a proposal meets the definition of large energy infrastructure facility and is subject to the commission's siting or routing jurisdiction under this chapter; or (2) whi…

216I.05 DESIGNATING SITES AND ROUTES.§Subdivision 1.Site permit.(a) A person is prohibited from constructing a large electric generating plant, a solar energy generating system, an energy storage system, or a large wind energy conversion system without a site permit issued by the…

216I.06 APPLICATIONS; MAJOR REVIEW.§Subdivision 1.Environmental review.(a) The commission must prepare an environmental impact statement on each proposed large energy infrastructure facility for which a complete application has been submitted. An environmental impact statement me…

216I.07 APPLICATIONS; STANDARD REVIEW.§Subdivision 1.Standard review.An applicant who seeks a site or route permit for which the applicant's proposal is one of the projects identified in this section may follow the procedures under this section in lieu of the procedures under sec…

216I.08 APPLICATIONS; LOCAL REVIEW.§Subdivision 1.Local review authorized.(a) Notwithstanding sections 216I.06 and 216I.07, an applicant who seeks a site or route permit for one of the projects identified in subdivision 2 may apply to the local units of government that have juris…

216I.09 PERMIT AMENDMENTS.§Subdivision 1.Applicability.This section applies to a request by the owner of the large energy infrastructure facility to modify any provision or condition of a site or route permit issued by the commission, including the following:(1) upgrades or rebui…

216I.10 EXEMPT PROJECTS.§Subdivision 1.Permit not required.A permit issued by the commission is not required to construct:(1) a small wind energy conversion system;(2) a power plant or solar energy generating system with a capacity of less than 50 megawatts;(3) an energy storage …

216I.11 PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS; EXCEPTIONS FOR CERTAIN FACILITIES.§Subdivision 1.Permit not required.The following projects do not constitute the construction of a large energy infrastructure facility and may be constructed without a permit issued by the commission:(1) maintaini…

216I.12 EMERGENCY PERMITS.§Subdivision 1.Utility emergency action. Any utility whose system requires the immediate construction of a large energy infrastructure facility due to a major unforeseen event may apply to the commission for an emergency permit. The application must prov…

216I.13 PERMIT TRANSFER.§Subdivision 1.Application.A permittee holding a large energy infrastructure facility site or route permit may request that the commission transfer the permittee's permit. The permittee must provide the name of the existing permittee, the name and descript…

216I.14 PERMIT REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION.§Subdivision 1.Initiation of action to revoke or suspend.The commission may initiate action to consider revoking or suspending a permit on the commission's own motion or upon the request of any person who has made a prima facie showing by a…

216I.15 ANNUAL HEARING.The commission must hold an annual public hearing at a time and place prescribed by rule in order to afford interested persons an opportunity to be heard regarding any matters relating to the siting and routing of large energy infrastructure facilities. At …

216I.16 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.§Subdivision 1. Public participation; generally.The commission must adopt broad spectrum citizen participation as a principal of operation. The form of public participation must not be limited to public meetings and hearings and must be consistent wit…

216I.17 PUBLIC MEETINGS; TRANSCRIPTS; WRITTEN RECORDS.Meetings of the commission, including hearings, shall be open to the public. Minutes shall be kept of commission meetings and a complete record of public hearings shall be kept. All books, records, files, and correspondence of…

216I.18 APPLICATION TO LOCAL REGULATION AND OTHER STATE PERMITS.§Subdivision 1.Site or route permit prevails over local provisions.To assure the paramount and controlling effect of the provisions herein over other state agencies, regional, county, and local governments, and speci…

216I.19 WIND TURBINE LIGHTING SYSTEMS.§Subdivision 1.Definitions.(a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given.(b) "Duration" means the length of time during which the lights of a wind turbine lighting system are lit.(c) "Intensity" means the b…