When a task listed in this part is performed during the limited site investigation or full remedial investigation step of services or as part of excavation and soil disposal oversight before the investigation, the cost is prima facie unreasonable when it exceeds the amount specified for it in the proposal for consultant services or the maximum cost specified for it in this part when the task was started, whichever is less.
Field work notification and scheduling has a maximum cost of $230 per field work event for which notification and scheduling are necessary.
Off-site access time has a maximum cost of $1,210 per off-site property to which access is required.
Free product recovery through hand bailing or portable pump has a maximum cost of $128 per well per event.
Hydraulic conductivity field test has a maximum cost of $169 per monitoring well for which the performance of a hydraulic conductivity field test is necessary.
Monitoring well installation oversight and development has a maximum cost of $339 per well, plus $169 per well that requires more than two hours for monitoring well development.
Surveying and surveying equipment has a maximum cost of:
the reasonable actual cost up to $908 per surveying event for which a licensed professional surveyor is necessary.
Utility clearance has a maximum cost of:
the reasonable actual cost up to $242 for each utility clearance event for which a private utility locator is not necessary; and
the reasonable actual cost up to $605 for each utility clearance event for which a private utility locator is necessary.
Water well receptor survey and risk evaluation has a maximum cost of $911 per leak site, plus $43 per citizen contact or property surveyed beyond 15.
AST soil sampling has a maximum cost of $43 per sample that is listed on the chain-of-custody form received by the laboratory.
Contaminated stockpile soil sampling has a maximum cost of $43 per sample that is listed on the chain-of-custody form received by the laboratory.
Excavation soil sampling has a maximum cost of:
$85 per tank that is removed or abandoned plus $4.24 per cubic yard excavated when a tank is being removed or abandoned; plus
Groundwater sampling (permanent monitoring well) has a maximum cost of $149 per well per sampling event.
Groundwater sampling (other than permanent monitoring well) has a maximum cost of $43 per sampling point from which a sample is taken and delivered to a laboratory for analysis.
Investigation report preparation (full RI) has a maximum cost of:
for a report recommending closure, additional vapor monitoring, or additional groundwater monitoring, $5,739, plus:
for a full remedial investigation report submitted in response to a documented special request made by the agency after a limited site investigation report was submitted to the agency, the maximum cost for investigation report preparation (LSI only), plus:
$1,597 for the karst field survey attachment, if it was prepared in response to the documented special request made by the agency after a limited site investigation report was submitted to the agency;
$182 per soil boring drilled in response to the documented special request made by the agency after a limited site investigation report was submitted to the agency; and
$237 per well installed in response to the documented special request made by the agency after a limited site investigation report was submitted to the agency.
Land treatment site application preparation has a maximum cost of $678 per land treatment site.
Land treatment spreading notification form preparation has a maximum cost of $85 per notification.
MS s 115C.07
20 SR 227; 28 SR 383; L 2010 c 241 s 4; MS s 115C.07 subd 3 paragraph (f)
November 30, 2012
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes