SF 1459

1st Engrossment - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 10/25/2023 10:07am

A bill for an act
relating to commerce; requiring sales reporting for intermediate blends of gasoline
and biofuel; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 239.791, subdivision 8.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 239.791, subdivision 8, is amended to read:

Subd. 8.

Disclosure new text begin ; reporting new text end .

(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, and it must state: "This fuel contains an oxygenate. Do
not blend this fuel with ethanol or with any other oxygenate." For nonoxygenated gasoline
deleted text begin sold or transferred after September 30, 1997 deleted text end , 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
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new text begin (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.
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new text begin (d) All reports provided pursuant to paragraph (c) are nonpublic data as defined in section
13.02, subdivision 9.
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new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective July 1, 2023.
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