1999 Minnesota Statutes

     115A.912 Waste tire management. 

    Subdivision 1.    Purpose.  Money appropriated to the 
 agency for waste tire management may be spent for elimination of 
 health and safety hazards of tire dumps and collection sites, 
 tire dump abatement, collection, management and clean up of 
 waste tires, regulation of permitted waste tire facilities, 
 research and studies to determine the technical and economic 
 feasibility of uses for tire derived products, public education 
 on waste tire management, and grants and loans under section 
 115A.913. 

    Subd. 2.    Priorities for spending.  The agency shall 
 apply the following criteria to establish priorities:  (1) tire 
 dumps or collection sites determined by the agency to contain 
 more than 1,000,000 tires; (2) abatement of fire hazard 
 nuisances; (3) abatement of nuisance in densely populated areas; 
 and (4) collection and clean up of waste tires including 
 abatement of tire dumps.  

    Subd. 3.    Contracts with counties.  The agency may 
 contract with counties for the abatement of waste tire nuisances 
 and may reimburse a county for up to 85 percent of the cost of 
 abatement.  A contract with a county for abatement of waste tire 
 nuisances must incorporate a plan approved by the agency that 
 provides for the removal and processing of the waste tires in a 
 manner consistent with agency standards and ongoing agency 
 abatement activities.  A county may recover by civil action its 
 part of abatement costs from the tire collector responsible for 
 a nuisance. 

    Subd. 4.    Waste tire materials; prohibition.  
 Materials derived from waste tires may not be used as 
 lightweight fill in the construction of public roads in the 
 state unless the construction plan is prepared by a professional 
 engineer experienced in the geotechnical field and licensed in 
 the state of Minnesota.  The plan shall include, but not be 
 limited to, the location, duration, and length of the project, 
 the depth of fill, the depth of cover, the size of waste tire 
 pieces, the plan for encapsulating the waste tire pieces, and 
 the fire protection plan.  All engineering specifications must 
 be consistent with the current lightweight tire fill engineering 
 practices as developed for roadways by the Minnesota department 
 of transportation. 

    HIST: 1984 c 654 art 2 s 97; 1988 c 685 s 14; 1989 c 335 art 1 
 s 269; 1997 c 216 s 96; 1999 c 73 s 5