HF 4085

as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 02/28/2024 05:44pm

A bill for an act
relating to commerce; modifying or eliminating various provisions governing
weights and measures; amending Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section
239.791, subdivision 8; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 239.791,
subdivision 3.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2023 Supplement, section 239.791, subdivision 8, is amended
to read:

Subd. 8.

Disclosure; reporting.

(a) A refinery or terminal, shall provide, at the time
gasoline is sold or transferred from the refinery or terminal, a bill of lading or shipping
manifest to the person who receives the gasoline. For oxygenated gasoline, the bill of lading
or shipping manifest must include the identity and the volume percentage or gallons of
oxygenate included in the gasoline deleted text begin , and it must state: "This fuel contains an oxygenate deleted text end . deleted text begin Do
not blend this fuel with ethanol or with any other oxygenate." deleted text end For nonoxygenated gasoline,
the bill or manifest must state: "This fuel is not oxygenated. It must not be sold at retail in
Minnesota." This subdivision does not apply to sales or transfers of gasoline between
refineries, between terminals, or between a refinery and a terminal.

(b) A delivery ticket required under section 239.092 for biofuel blended with gasoline
must state the volume percentage of biofuel blended into gasoline delivered through a meter
into a storage tank used for dispensing by persons not exempt under subdivisions 10 to 14
and 16.

(c) On or before the 23rd day of each month, a person responsible for the product must
report to the department, in the form prescribed by the commissioner, the gross number of
gallons of intermediate blends sold at retail by the person during the preceding calendar
month. The report must identify the number of gallons by blend type. For purposes of this
subdivision, "intermediate blends" means blends of gasoline and biofuel in which the biofuel
content, exclusive of denaturants and other permitted components, is greater than ten percent
and no more than 50 percent by volume. This paragraph only applies to a person who is
responsible for selling intermediate blends at retail at more than ten locations. A person
responsible for the product at fewer than ten locations is not precluded from reporting the
gross number of intermediate blends if a report is available.

(d) All reports provided pursuant to paragraph (c) are nonpublic data, as defined in
section 13.02, subdivision 9.

Sec. 2. new text begin REPEALER.
new text end

new text begin Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 239.791, subdivision 3, new text end new text begin is repealed.
new text end

APPENDIX

Repealed Minnesota Statutes: 24-05497

239.791 OXYGENATED GASOLINE.

Subd. 3.

Blending restriction.

When gasoline contains an oxygenate, a person responsible for the product shall not blend the product with ethanol or with any other oxygenate after it is transferred or otherwise removed from a refinery or terminal.