Minnesota Session Laws - 1994, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 582-H.F.No. 2894 
                  An act relating to the environment; providing for 
                  evaluation of motor vehicle salvage facilities by the 
                  pollution control agency; providing for a report to 
                  the legislature; reallocating money; proposing coding 
                  for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 116. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  [116.66] [MOTOR VEHICLE SALVAGE FACILITIES.] 
           Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] (a) The definitions in this 
        subdivision apply to this section. 
           (b) "Best management practices" means practices that are 
        capable of preventing releases and minimizing the degradation of 
        the environment, considering technical feasibility, 
        implementability, availability, effectiveness, economic factors 
        and environmental effects.  
           (c) "Motor vehicle salvage facility" means an establishment 
        or place of business that is maintained, operated, or used for 
        storing, keeping, buying, dismantling, crushing, or selling 
        wrecked, scraped, ruined, or partially dismantled motor vehicles 
        where the parts, motor vehicle hulks, or other scrap material 
        stored is equal in bulk to ten or more vehicles. 
           Subd. 2.  [FACILITY EVALUATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL 
        ASSESSMENT.] (a) The commissioner of the pollution control 
        agency shall conduct facility evaluations to evaluate ongoing 
        waste management practices and shall provide technical 
        assistance for corrective action at motor vehicle salvage 
        facilities.  
           (b) The commissioner shall conduct environmental 
        assessments at a representative group of motor vehicle salvage 
        facilities to determine environmental impacts, develop criteria, 
        and determine appropriate cleanup methods. 
           Subd. 3.  [BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; TRAINING.] (a) The 
        commissioner shall establish best management practices for motor 
        vehicle salvage facilities. 
           (b) The commissioner shall provide training and technical 
        assistance to owners and operators of motor vehicle salvage 
        facilities on the implementation of best management practices 
        established under paragraph (a) and for other rules that apply 
        to these facilities. 
           Subd. 4.  [REPEALER.] This section is repealed on the day 
        that the repeal of section 115A.908 is effective.  
           Sec. 2.  [REPORT.] 
           By January 30, 1995, the commissioner shall complete a 
        report to the legislative commission on waste management 
        including: 
           (1) findings of the environmental evaluations and 
        assessments conducted at representative sites under section 1; 
           (2) accomplishments in the areas of operator training and 
        technical assistance; 
           (3) establishment of criteria and categorization of sites 
        based on need for environmental cleanup at motor vehicle salvage 
        facilities as defined in section 1.  The criteria shall be based 
        on the relative risk or danger to public health or welfare or 
        the environment, taking into account to the extent possible the 
        population at risk, the hazardous substances at the facility, 
        the potential for contamination of drinking water supplies, the 
        potential for direct human contact with the facility, and the 
        potential for destruction of sensitive ecosystems; and 
           (4) presentation of options for conducting future 
        environmental assessments and cleanup at facilities. 
           In preparing the report, the commissioner shall consult 
        with counties and the motor vehicle recycling industry. 
           Sec. 3.  [REALLOCATION.] 
           Of the amount appropriated from the environmental fund in 
        Laws 1993, chapter 172, section 2, subdivision 4, $494,000 may 
        be used for the purposes of sections 1 and 2.  The budget base 
        for the groundwater and solid waste pollution control program 
        for the 1996-1997 biennium is reduced by this amount. 
           Presented to the governor May 4, 1994 
           Signed by the governor May 6, 1994, 11:34 a.m.