Minnesota Administrative Rules

7514.0300 SCOPE.

Parts 7514.0100 to 7514.2000 are intended to provide direction to state and local government and business and industry regarding the implementation of a statewide system of regional hazardous materials emergency response teams and hazardous materials chemical assessment teams. Provisions of this chapter include, but are not limited to, factors to be considered in establishing the response area locations of hazardous materials emergency response teams and hazardous materials chemical assessment teams; requirements for designating teams in each established response area; number and qualifications of team members; procedures for establishing equipment requirements for each team; procedures for selecting and contracting for establishing teams; procedures for dispatching teams at the request of local governments; categories of costs to be used to establish fee schedules for reimbursing teams for costs arising from hazardous materials emergencies and for state recovery of response costs from the person responsible for causing a hazardous materials emergency; and methods of coordinating team response with other state departments and agencies, local units of government, other states, Indian tribes, the federal government, and other nonpublic persons.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 299A.50

History:

19 SR 450

Published Electronically:

October 2, 2007