Section 116C.24 Definitions

MINNESOTA STATUTES AND CODES

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.