1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to environment; providing for compliance with effluent limitations under 
1.3 	certain conditions; requiring rulemaking.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. RULEMAKING; EFFLUENT LIMITATION COMPLIANCE.
 1.6 	(a) The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency shall amend Minnesota Rules, 
1.7 	part 7001.0150, subpart 2, item A, by inserting the following:
1.8 	"For a municipality that constructs a publicly owned treatment works facility to comply 
1.9 	with a new or modified effluent limitation, compliance with any new or modified effluent 
1.10 	limitation adopted after construction begins that would require additional capital investment 
1.11 	is not required until the date at which the facility constructed is 80 percent depreciated using 
1.12 	Government Accounting Standards Board standards for straight-line depreciation, excluding 
1.13 	salvage costs, or the date at which the outstanding debt on the facility is at or below 20 
1.14 	percent of the municipality's statutory debt limit under Minnesota Statutes, section 475.53."
1.15 	(b) The commissioner may use the good cause exemption under Minnesota Statutes, 
1.16 	section 14.388, subdivision 1, clause (3), to adopt rules under this section, and Minnesota 
1.17 	Statutes, section 14.386, does not apply, except as provided under Minnesota Statutes, 
1.18 	section 14.388.