2006 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 employment 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:
(1) covered by chapter 93 or 216E or section 216B.243; or
(2) initiated for the purpose of taconite tailings disposal or mining, or the producing or
beneficiating of copper, nickel or copper-nickel.
    Subd. 8.[Renumbered subd 1a]
History: 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; 1Sp2003 c 4 s 1