SF 1869

as introduced - 89th Legislature (2015 - 2016) Posted on 10/01/2015 04:07pm

A bill for an act
relating to solid waste; appropriating money for solid waste processing facility.

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

Section 1. new text begin APPROPRIATION.
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new text begin $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2015 is appropriated from the general fund to the
commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency for a grant to a solid waste management
company in Delano to construct an innovative municipal solid waste processing facility
with an annual capacity of up to 125,000 tons as a demonstration project to manage
organics through the use of an emerging technology to recover organic material and
nonrecyclable paper, which represents one-half the volume of material that is currently
placed in a landfill, and process it in a high solids anaerobic digester to produce Class I or
II compost and compressed natural gas for use in the company's solid waste collection
vehicles. This appropriation may be used to pay no more than 15 percent of the total
project costs. This appropriation is available until expended.
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new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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