1997 Minnesota Statutes

     114C.21 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Applicability.  As used in sections 
 114C.20 to 114C.31, the terms defined in this section have the 
 meanings given. 

    Subd. 2.    Agency.  "Agency" means the pollution 
 control agency. 

    Subd. 3.    Environmental requirement.  "Environmental 
 requirement" means a requirement in: 

    (1) a law administered by the agency, a rule adopted by the 
 agency, a permit or order issued by the agency, an agreement 
 entered into with the agency, or a court order issued pursuant 
 to any of the foregoing; or 

    (2) an ordinance or other legally binding requirement of a 
 local government unit under authority granted by state law 
 relating to environmental protection, including solid and 
 hazardous waste management. 

    Subd. 4.    Environmental audit; audit.  "Environmental 
 audit" or "audit" means a systematic, documented, and objective 
 review by a regulated entity of one or more facility operations 
 and practices related to compliance with one or more 
 environmental requirements and, if deficiencies are found, a 
 plan for corrective action.  The final audit document must be 
 designated as an "audit report" and must include the date of the 
 final written report of findings for the audit. 

    Subd. 5.    Commissioner.  "Commissioner" means the 
 commissioner of the pollution control agency. 

    Subd. 6.    Facility.  "Facility" means all buildings, 
 equipment, structures, and other stationary items that are 
 located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and 
 that are owned or operated by the same person. 

    Subd. 7.    Local governmental unit.  "Local 
 governmental unit" means a county, a statutory or home rule 
 charter city, a town, a sanitary district, or the metropolitan 
 area. 

    Subd. 8.    Major facility.  "Major facility" means an 
 industrial or municipal wastewater discharge major facility as 
 defined in rules of the agency; a feedlot that is permitted for 
 1,000 or more animal units; a large quantity hazardous waste 
 generator as defined in rules of the agency; a hazardous waste 
 treatment, storage, or disposal facility that is required to 
 have a permit under the federal Resource Conservation and 
 Recovery Act, United States Code, title 42, section 6925; a 
 major stationary air emission source as defined in rules of the 
 agency; an air emission source that emits 50 or more tons per 
 year of any air pollutant regulated under rules of the agency; 
 or an air emission source that emits 75 tons or more per year of 
 all air pollutants regulated under rules of the agency. 

    Subd. 9.    Pollution prevention.  "Pollution prevention"
 means the elimination or reduction at the source of the use, 
 generation, or release of pollutants. 

    Subd. 10.    Regulated entity.  "Regulated entity" means 
 a public or private organization that is subject to 
 environmental requirements. 

    Subd. 11.    Self-evaluation.  "Self-evaluation" means a 
 systematic, documented, and objective review by a regulated 
 entity of one or more facility operations and practices related 
 to compliance with one or more environmental requirements, based 
 upon an evaluation form prescribed or approved by the 
 commissioner. 

    Subd. 12.    State.  "State" means the pollution control 
 agency, the attorney general, and all local governmental units. 

    HIST: 1995 c 168 s 9; 1996 c 359 s 3-5; 1996 c 437 s 24 

*   NOTE:  See section 114C.30 for repealer.