Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                        CHAPTER 304-H.F.No. 322 
           An act relating to waste management expenditures; 
          requiring the state resource recovery program to 
          establish a central materials recovery facility and 
          centralized collection and transportation of 
          recyclable materials from state offices and 
          operations; appropriating money; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1990, section 115A.15, subdivision 6, and by 
          adding a subdivision. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 115A.15, 
subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 6.  [USE OF FUNDS.] All funds appropriated by the 
state for the resource recovery program, all revenues resulting 
from the sale of recyclable and reusable commodities made 
available for sale as a result of the resource recovery program 
and all reimbursements to the commissioner of expenses incurred 
by the commissioner in developing and administering resource 
recovery systems for state agencies, governmental units, and 
nonprofit organizations must be deposited in the general fund.  
The commissioner shall determine the waste disposal cost savings 
associated with recycling and reuse activities, collect those 
savings from the account responsible for disposing of wastes 
produced in state buildings, and credit the savings to the 
general fund.  
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 115A.15, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 10.  [MATERIALS RECOVERY FACILITY; MATERIALS 
COLLECTION; WASTE AUDITS.] (a) The commissioner of the 
department of administration shall establish a central materials 
recovery facility to manage recyclable materials collected from 
state offices and other state operations in the metropolitan 
area.  The facility must be located as close as practicable to 
the state capitol complex and must be large enough to 
accommodate temporary storage of recyclable materials collected 
from state offices and other state operations in the 
metropolitan area and the processing of those materials for 
market. 
    (b) The commissioner shall establish a recyclable materials 
collection and transportation system for state offices and other 
state operations in the metropolitan area that will maximize the 
types and amount of materials collected and the number of state 
offices and other state operations served, and will minimize 
barriers to effective and efficient collection, transportation, 
and marketing of recyclable materials. 
    (c) The commissioner shall perform regular audits on the 
solid waste and recyclable materials collected to identify 
materials upon which to focus waste reduction, reuse, and 
recycling activities and to measure: 
    (1) progress made toward the recycling goal in subdivision 
9; 
    (2) progress made to reduce waste generation; and 
    (3) potential for additional waste reduction, reuse, and 
recycling. 
    (d) The commissioner may contract with private entities for 
the activities required in this subdivision if the commissioner 
determines that it would be cost-effective to do so. 
    Sec. 3.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
    The following amounts are appropriated from the general 
fund to the commissioner of the department of administration for 
the purposes indicated, to be available for the fiscal year 
ending June 30 in the years indicated.  If the appropriation for 
either year is insufficient, the appropriation for the other 
year is available for it.  
                                            1992        1993
Central materials recovery facility          $48,000     $48,000
The approved complement of the
department of administration is
increased by 8 positions.
    Presented to the governor May 30, 1991 
    Signed by the governor June 3, 1991, 4:19 p.m.