1st Engrossment - 90th Legislature (2017 - 2018) Posted on 04/05/2018 02:53pm
A bill for an act
relating to environment; providing for compliance with effluent limitations under
certain conditions; requiring rulemaking.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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(a) The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency shall amend Minnesota Rules,
part 7001.0150, subpart 2, item A, by inserting the following:
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"For a municipality that constructs a publicly owned treatment works facility to comply
with a new or modified effluent limitation, compliance with any new or modified effluent
limitation adopted after construction begins that would require additional capital investment
is required no sooner than 16 years after the date of initiation of operation of the facility."
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(b) The commissioner may use the good cause exemption under Minnesota Statutes,
section 14.388, subdivision 1, clause (3), to adopt rules under this section, and Minnesota
Statutes, section 14.386, does not apply, except as provided under Minnesota Statutes,
section 14.388.
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