HF 3340

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

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to the environment; providing reimbursement 
  1.3             for the removal of certain petroleum storage tanks. 
  1.4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.5      Section 1.  [AGRICULTURAL STORAGE TANK REMOVAL; 
  1.6   REIMBURSEMENT.] 
  1.7      Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITION.] As used in this section, 
  1.8   "agricultural storage tank" means an underground petroleum 
  1.9   storage tank with a capacity of more than 1,100 gallons that has 
  1.10  been registered with the pollution control agency by January 1, 
  1.11  2000, and is located on a farm where the contents of the tank 
  1.12  are used by the tank owner or operator predominantly for farming 
  1.13  purposes and are not commercially distributed. 
  1.14     Subd. 2.  [REIMBURSEMENT.] Notwithstanding Minnesota 
  1.15  Statutes, section 115C.09, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), clause 
  1.16  (1), and pursuant to the remaining provisions of Minnesota 
  1.17  Statutes, chapter 115C, the petroleum tank release compensation 
  1.18  board shall reimburse an owner or operator of an agricultural 
  1.19  storage tank for 90 percent of the total reimbursable cost of 
  1.20  removal project costs incurred for the tank prior to January 1, 
  1.21  2001, including, but not limited to, tank removal, closure in 
  1.22  place, backfill, resurfacing, and utility restoration costs, 
  1.23  regardless of whether a release has occurred at the site.  
  1.24  Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 115C.09, subdivision 
  2.1   3, the board may not reimburse an eligible applicant under this 
  2.2   section for more than $7,500 of costs per tank. 
  2.3      Sec. 2.  [SMALL GASOLINE STORAGE TANK REMOVAL; 
  2.4   REIMBURSEMENT.] 
  2.5      Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 115C.09, 
  2.6   subdivision 3f, paragraph (a), a tank owner who (1) owned two 
  2.7   locations in the state, and no locations in any other state, 
  2.8   where motor fuel was dispensed to the public into motor 
  2.9   vehicles, watercraft, or aircraft, and who dispensed motor fuel 
  2.10  at that location, (2) operated the tanks simultaneously for six 
  2.11  months or less in 1995, and (3) dispensed less than 200,000 
  2.12  gallons at both locations is a small gasoline retailer for 
  2.13  purposes of Minnesota Statutes, section 115C.09, subdivision 3f, 
  2.14  paragraph (c), and is eligible for reimbursement.