HF 1003

1st Engrossment - 90th Legislature (2017 - 2018) Posted on 02/22/2018 05:08pm

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:

Section 1. new text begin RULEMAKING; EFFLUENT LIMITATION COMPLIANCE.
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new text begin (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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new text begin "For a municipality that constructs a publicly owned treatment works facility or an industrial
national pollutant discharge elimination system/state disposal system permit holder who
constructs a 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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new text begin (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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