HF 288

1st Engrossment - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to appropriations; appropriating money to the 
  1.3             Minnesota pollution control agency for equipment 
  1.4             purchase and distribution, planning, and response 
  1.5             training relating to emergency spill response on the 
  1.6             Mississippi river; amending Minnesota Statutes 1998, 
  1.7             section 115C.08, subdivision 4. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 115C.08, 
  1.10  subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
  1.11     Subd. 4.  [EXPENDITURES.] (a) Money in the fund may only be 
  1.12  spent: 
  1.13     (1) to administer the petroleum tank release cleanup 
  1.14  program established in this chapter; 
  1.15     (2) for agency administrative costs under sections 116.46 
  1.16  to 116.50, sections 115C.03 to 115C.06, and costs of corrective 
  1.17  action taken by the agency under section 115C.03, including 
  1.18  investigations; 
  1.19     (3) for costs of recovering expenses of corrective actions 
  1.20  under section 115C.04; 
  1.21     (4) for training, certification, and rulemaking under 
  1.22  sections 116.46 to 116.50; 
  1.23     (5) for agency administrative costs of enforcing rules 
  1.24  governing the construction, installation, operation, and closure 
  1.25  of aboveground and underground petroleum storage tanks; 
  1.26     (6) for reimbursement of the harmful substance compensation 
  2.1   account under subdivision 5 and section 115B.26, subdivision 4; 
  2.2      (7) for administrative and staff costs as set by the board 
  2.3   to administer the petroleum tank release program established in 
  2.4   this chapter; 
  2.5      (8) for corrective action performance audits under section 
  2.6   115C.093; and 
  2.7      (9) for contamination cleanup grants, as provided in 
  2.8   paragraph (c); and 
  2.9      (10) purchase of spill response equipment to protect the 
  2.10  Mississippi river. 
  2.11     (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c), money in the fund 
  2.12  is appropriated to the board to make reimbursements or payments 
  2.13  under this section. 
  2.14     (c) $6,200,000 is annually appropriated from the fund to 
  2.15  the commissioner of trade and economic development for 
  2.16  contamination cleanup grants under section 116J.554, provided 
  2.17  that money appropriated in this paragraph may be used only for 
  2.18  cleanup costs attributable to petroleum contamination, as 
  2.19  determined by the commissioner of the pollution control agency. 
  2.20  Of this amount, the commissioner may spend up to $120,000 
  2.21  annually for administration of the contamination cleanup grant 
  2.22  program. 
  2.23     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  2.24     (a) $225,000 is appropriated from the petroleum tank fund, 
  2.25  to be available for the biennium, to the Minnesota pollution 
  2.26  control agency for the following purposes: 
  2.27     (1) to purchase and distribute emergency spill response 
  2.28  equipment, such as spill containment booms, sorbent pads, and 
  2.29  installation tools, along the Mississippi river upstream of 
  2.30  drinking water intakes at the locations designated by the agency 
  2.31  in consultation with the Mississippi River Defense Network; 
  2.32     (2) to purchase mobile trailers to contain the equipment in 
  2.33  clause (1) so that rapid deployment can occur; and 
  2.34     (3) to conduct spill response training for those groups of 
  2.35  responders receiving the spill response equipment described in 
  2.36  clause (1). 
  3.1      (b) The agency shall develop and administer protocol for 
  3.2   the use of the equipment in paragraph (a) among all potential 
  3.3   users, including private contract firms, public response 
  3.4   agencies, and units of government.