2007 Minnesota Statutes

473.843 METROPOLITAN SOLID WASTE LANDFILL FEE.
    Subdivision 1. Amount of fee; application. The operator of a mixed municipal solid waste
disposal facility in the metropolitan area shall pay a fee on solid waste accepted and disposed at
the facility as follows:
(a) A facility that weighs the waste that it accepts must pay a fee of $6.66 per ton of waste
accepted at the entrance of the facility.
(b) A facility that does not weigh the waste but that measures the volume of the waste that it
accepts must pay a fee of $2 per cubic yard of waste accepted at the entrance of the facility. This
fee and the tipping fee must be calculated on the same basis.
(c) Waste residue, from recycling facilities at which recyclable materials are separated or
processed for the purposes of recycling, or from energy and resource recovery facilities at which
solid waste is processed for the purpose of extracting, reducing, converting to energy, or otherwise
separating and preparing solid waste for reuse, is exempt from the fee imposed by this subdivision
if there is at least an 85 percent weight reduction in the solid waste processed. To qualify for
exemption under this clause, waste residue must be brought to a disposal facility separately. The
commissioner of revenue, with the advice and assistance of the agency, shall prescribe procedures
for determining the amount of waste residue qualifying for exemption.
    Subd. 2. Disposition of proceeds. The proceeds of the fees imposed under this section,
including interest and penalties, must be deposited as follows:
(1) three-fourths of the proceeds must be deposited in the environmental fund for
metropolitan landfill abatement for the purposes described in section 473.844; and
(2) one-fourth of the proceeds must be deposited in the metropolitan landfill contingency
action trust account in the remediation fund established in sections 116.155 and 473.845.
    Subd. 3. Payment of fee. On or before the 20th day of each month each operator shall pay
the fee due under this section for the previous month, using a form provided by the commissioner
of revenue.
An operator having a fee of $120,000 or more during a fiscal year ending June 30 must pay
all fees in the subsequent calendar year by electronic means.
    Subd. 4. Exchange of information. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 116.075,
the agency may provide the commissioner of revenue with the information necessary for the
enforcement of this section. Information disclosed in a return filed under this section is public
information. Information exchanged between the commissioner and the agency is public unless
the information is of the type determined to be for the confidential use of the agency under section
116.075 or is trade secret information classified under section 13.37. Information obtained in the
course of an audit by the Department of Revenue is private or nonpublic data to the extent that
it would not be directly divulged in a return.
    Subd. 5. Penalties; enforcement. The audit, penalty, and enforcement provisions applicable
to corporate franchise taxes imposed under chapter 290 apply to the fees imposed under this
section. The commissioner of revenue shall administer the provisions.
    Subd. 6. Rules. The commissioner of revenue may adopt rules necessary to implement
this section.
    Subd. 7.[Repealed, 1985 c 274 s 47]
History: 1984 c 644 s 73; 1988 c 719 art 19 s 24; 1989 c 277 art 1 s 31; 1989 c 325 s
60,61; 1989 c 335 art 4 s 94; 1991 c 291 art 17 s 12; 1993 c 375 art 10 s 50; 1994 c 585 s
45; 1995 c 247 art 1 s 56; 1Sp2001 c 5 art 17 s 21; 2003 c 128 art 2 s 46; 2005 c 151 art 8 s
19; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 161