1997 Minnesota Statutes

     116C.24 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Applicability.  For the purposes of 
 sections 116C.22 to 116C.34, the terms defined in this section 
 have the meanings given them. 

    Subd. 1a.    Agency.  "Agency" means a state department, 
 commission, board or other agency of the state however titled or 
 a local governmental unit or instrumentality, only when that 
 unit or instrumentality is acting within existing legal 
 authority to grant or deny a permit that otherwise would be 
 granted or denied by a state agency. 

    Subd. 2.    Board.  "Board" means the Minnesota 
 environmental quality board. 

    Subd. 2a.    Commissioner.  "Commissioner" means the 
 commissioner of trade and economic development.  

    Subd. 3.    Coordination unit.  "Coordination unit" 
 means the bureau of business licenses established pursuant to 
 sections 116J.73 to 116J.76. 

    Subd. 4.    Local governmental unit.  "Local 
 governmental unit" means a county, city, town, or special 
 district with legal authority to issue a permit. 

    Subd. 5.    Permit.  "Permit" means a license, permit, 
 certificate, certification, approval, compliance schedule, or 
 other similar document pertaining to a regulatory or management 
 program related to the protection, conservation, or use of, or 
 interference with, the natural resources of land, air or water, 
 which is required to be obtained from a state agency prior to 
 constructing or operating a project in this state. 

    Nothing in sections 116C.22 to 116C.34 shall relate to the 
 granting of a proprietary interest in publicly owned property 
 through a sale, lease, easement, use permit, license or other 
 conveyance. 

    Subd. 6.    Person.  "Person" means an individual, an 
 association or partnership, or a cooperative, or a municipal, 
 public or private corporation, including but not limited to a 
 state agency and a county. 

    Subd. 7.    Project.  "Project" means a new activity or 
 an expansion of or addition to an existing activity, which is 
 fixed in location and for which permits are required from an 
 agency prior to construction or operation, including but not 
 limited to industrial and commercial operations and 
 developments.  Sections 116C.22 to 116C.34 shall not apply to 
 projects which are: 

    (a) Covered by chapter 93, sections 116C.51 to 116C.69 or 
 216B.243; or 

    (b) Initiated for the purpose of taconite tailings disposal 
 or mining, or the producing or beneficiating of copper, nickel 
 or copper-nickel. 

    Subd. 8.  MS 1990 Renumbered subd 1a 

    HIST: 1975 c 271 s 6; 1976 c 303 s 3; 1981 c 356 s 248; 1983 c 
 289 s 34,35,115 subd 2; 1984 c 558 art 4 s 10; 1987 c 312 art 1 
 s 26 subd 2