Nonmetropolitan and metropolitan area generators that generate less than or equal to 100 pounds or ten gallons of hazardous waste and no acute hazardous waste per year are exempt from the fees under this chapter.
An individual metropolitan area generator shall not be charged a quantity rate fee on any wastes generated in excess of 2,000,000 pounds.
An individual nonmetropolitan area generator shall not be charged a quantity rate fee on any wastes generated in excess of 1,000,000 pounds.
Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) waste associated with oil-filled electric equipment is eligible for a waiver from annual hazardous waste fees according to Minnesota Statutes, section 116.07, subdivision 2b, paragraph (b).
A waste that is generated as a result of a response action is exempt from the generator fee. A response action is removal or remedial action taken according to the Environmental Response and Liability Act, Minnesota Statutes, sections 115B.01 to 115B.20, or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, United States Code, part 42, sections 9601, et seq.
A waste that is generated as a result of a household hazardous waste collection program under Minnesota Statutes, section 115A.95, is exempt from the generator fee.
An operator of a very small quantity generator hazardous waste collection program is exempt from generator fees for waste collected under part 7045.0320.
An operator who is also a generator is not exempt from generator fees for the waste that the operator generates as distinct from the waste that the operator collects from other generators.
A very small quantity generator participating in a collection program under part 7045.0320 is not exempt from generator fees.
The agency bases the generator fees in this chapter only on those wastes used to determine generator size.
Minn. R. agency 167, ch. 7046, pt. 7046.0050
Statutory Authority: MS s 16A.128; 116.12