1998 Minnesota Statutes

     115A.159 Development of hazardous waste collection and 
  transportation services. 

    The board through its chair shall request, pursuant to the 
 first round of requests under section 115A.158, proposals for 
 the development and operation of a system of commercial 
 collection and transportation services for hazardous waste 
 especially designed to serve smaller businesses and generators 
 of small quantities of hazardous waste that have difficulty 
 securing effective and reliable collection and shipment services 
 and acceptance of wastes at appropriate waste facilities.  The 
 board's request under this section should require proposals 
 containing at least the following elements:  

    (1) a collection service; 

    (2) assistance to clients about on-site waste management; 

    (3) a shipping coordination service, which may include 
 transfer and temporary storage and bulking facilities and 
 computerized inventory tracking capabilities, as the proposer 
 deems appropriate and necessary to provide efficient and 
 reliable combined shipment of wastes from generators to 
 processing and disposal facilities; 

    (4) a brokerage service to ensure acceptance of wastes at 
 appropriate processing and disposal facilities; 

    (5) recommendations on the utility of local or regional 
 associations of generators to increase the efficiency and 
 reliability of the services; and 

    (6) recommendations on processing facilities, including 
 mobile modular processing units, that would complement the 
 collection and transportation system.  

    The board's request must require proposals that offer the 
 delivery of services in stages commencing no later than July 1, 
 1985.  The board should specify or require specification of 
 immediate and staged performance standards for the services 
 proposed, which may include standards relating to the volume and 
 types of waste, the number and geographic distribution of 
 generators served, accessibility, the percent of total waste and 
 generators served, and other appropriate matters.  After 
 evaluating proposals received in response to its request, the 
 board may select a proposer as the recipient of a development 
 grant under section 115A.156.  Notwithstanding the provisions of 
 section 115A.156, subdivisions 4 and 5, on the amount of the 
 grant and the required match, the grant made under this section 
 may be up to $350,000 and may not require a match greater than 
 ten percent of the grant award.  

    HIST: 1984 c 644 s 13; 1986 c 444