Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

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…

116C.99 SILICA SAND MINING MODEL STANDARDS AND CRITERIA. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. The definitions in this subdivision apply to sections 116C.99 to 116C.992. (a) "Local unit of government" means a county, statutory or home rule charter city, or town. (b) "Mining" means excavat…

116C.991 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW; SILICA SAND PROJECTS. (a) Until a final rule is adopted pursuant to Laws 2013, chapter 114, article 4, section 105, paragraph (d), an environmental assessment worksheet must be prepared for any silica sand project that meets or exceeds the following…

116C.992 ORDINANCE AND PERMIT LIBRARY. By October 1, 2013, the Environmental Quality Board, in consultation with local units of government, shall create and maintain a library on local government ordinances and local government permits that have been approved for regulation of si…

116D.01 PURPOSE. The purposes of Laws 1973, chapter 412, are: (1) to declare a state policy that will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between human beings and their environment; (2) to promote efforts that will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphe…

116D.02 DECLARATION OF STATE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY. § Subdivision 1.Policy. The legislature, recognizing the profound impact of human activity on the interrelations of all components of the natural environment, particularly the profound influences of population growth, high densit…

116D.03 ACTION BY STATE AGENCIES. § Subdivision 1.Requirement. The legislature authorizes and directs that, to the fullest extent practicable the policies, rules and public laws of the state shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies set forth in sectio…

116D.04 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. § Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 1980 c 447 s 10] § Subd. 1a.Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the meanings given to them in this subdivision. (a) "Natural resources" has the meaning given it in section 116…

116D.045 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS; COSTS. § Subdivision 1.Assessment. The board must by rule adopt procedures to: (1) assess the proposer of a specific action for the responsible governmental unit's reasonable costs of preparing, reviewing, and distributing the environment…

116D.06 EFFECT OF EXISTING OBLIGATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Specific statutory obligations. Nothing in sections 116D.03 to 116D.045 shall in any way affect the specific statutory obligations of any state agency to: (1) comply with criteria or standards of environmental quality; (2) c…

116D.10 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY REPORT. (a) On or before January 1 of each even-numbered year, the governor shall transmit to the energy and environment and natural resources committees of the legislature a concise, comprehensive written report on the energy and environ…

116D.11 REPORT PREPARATION. § Subdivision 1.Agency responsibility. Each department or agency of the state, as designated by the governor, shall assist in the preparation of the strategy report. Each designated department or agency shall prepare a preliminary strategy report relat…

116F.01 STATEMENT OF POLICY. (a) The legislature seeks to encourage both the reduction of the amount and type of material entering the solid waste stream and the reuse and recycling of materials. Solid waste represents discarded material and energy resources, and it also represen…

116F.02 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. As used in sections 116F.01 to 116F.08, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given to them. § Subd. 2.Agency. "Agency" means the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. § Subd. 3. [Repealed, 1980 c 564 art 13 s 2] § Subd. 4. …

116F.05 POWERS AND DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.State powers. In administering and enforcing sections 116F.01 to 116F.08, the agency may: (1) initiate and conduct public education programs which encourage the conservation of solid materials, the reduction of solid waste generation, an…

116F.06 PACKAGES AND CONTAINERS; ASSISTANCE; ORDERS; REPORT. § Subdivision 1.Advice and assistance. The agency shall advise and assist industry and business within the state in providing and developing packaging and containers consistent with environmental policies of the state. …

116F.08 PENALTIES. Any person, corporation, partnership, firm, association, political subdivision or body corporate and politic which violates any provision of sections 116F.01 to 116F.06, or any rule promulgated thereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and each day that a v…

116F.30 CONSERVATION OF BIOMASS FUEL AND FIREWOOD. In any instance where trees or portions of trees usable as firewood are removed from property under the control of a public utility, pipeline company, railroad, state agency or department, or a political subdivision, that portion…