HF 1003

as introduced - 90th Legislature (2017 - 2018) Posted on 02/09/2017 01:44pm

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 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 not required until the date at which the facility constructed is 80 percent depreciated using
Government Accounting Standards Board standards for straight-line depreciation, excluding
salvage costs, or the date at which the outstanding debt on the facility is at or below 20
percent of the municipality's statutory debt limit under Minnesota Statutes, section 475.53."
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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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