1997 Minnesota Statutes

     115B.48 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Applicability.  The definitions in 
 section 115B.02 and this section apply to sections 115B.47 to 
 115B.51. 

    Subd. 2.    Drycleaner environmental response and 
 reimbursement account; account.  "Drycleaner environmental 
 response and reimbursement account" or "account" means the 
 drycleaner environmental response and reimbursement account 
 established in section 115B.49. 

    Subd. 3.    Drycleaning facility.  "Drycleaning facility"
 means a facility located in this state that is or has been used 
 for a drycleaning operation, other than: 

    (1) a coin-operated drycleaning operation; 

    (2) a facility located on a United States military base; 

    (3) a uniform service or linen supply facility; 

    (4) a prison or other penal institution; 

    (5) a facility on the national priorities list established 
 under the Federal Superfund Act; or 

    (6) a facility at which a response action has been taken or 
 started under section 115B.17 before July 1, 1995, except as 
 authorized in a settlement agreement approved by the 
 commissioner by July 1, 1997. 

    Subd. 4.    Drycleaning operation.  "Drycleaning 
 operation" means commercial cleaning of apparel and household 
 fabrics for the general public, using one or more drycleaning 
 solvents. 

    Subd. 5.    Drycleaning solvent.  "Drycleaning solvent" 
 means a chlorine- or hydrocarbon-based formulation or product 
 that is used as a primary cleaning agent in drycleaning 
 operations. 

    Subd. 6.    Environmental response costs.  
 "Environmental response costs" means those costs described in 
 section 115B.17, subdivision 6. 

    Subd. 7.    Facility.  "Facility" means one or more 
 buildings or parts of a building and the equipment, 
 installations, and structures contained in the building, located 
 on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites.  Facility 
 includes any site or area where a hazardous substance, or a 
 pollutant or contaminant, has been deposited, stored, disposed 
 of, or placed, or otherwise comes to be located. 

    Subd. 8.    Full-time equivalence.  "Full-time 
 equivalence" means 2,000 hours worked by employees, owners, and 
 others in a drycleaning facility during a 12-month period 
 beginning July 1 of the preceding year and running through June 
 30 of the year in which the annual registration fee is due.  For 
 those drycleaning facilities that were in business less than the 
 12-month period, full-time equivalence means the total of all of 
 the hours worked in the drycleaning facility, divided by 2,000 
 and multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is 50 and 
 the denominator of which is the number of weeks in business 
 during the reporting period. 

    HIST: 1995 c 252 s 2; 1996 c 471 art 2 s 1,2; 1997 c 216 s 
 110,111