1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to environment; modifying definition of solid waste to exempt certain 
1.3 	highway construction, improvement, or repair activities;amending Minnesota 
1.4 	Statutes 2010, section 116.06, subdivision 22.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 116.06, subdivision 22, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 22.Solid waste. "Solid waste" means garbage, refuse, sludge from a water 
1.8 	supply treatment plant or air contaminant treatment facility, and other discarded waste 
1.9 	materials and sludges, in solid, semisolid, liquid, or contained gaseous form, resulting 
1.10 	from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community 
1.11 	activities, but does not include hazardous waste; animal waste used as fertilizer; earthen 
1.12 	fill, boulders, rock; concrete diamond grinding and saw slurry associated with the 
1.13 	construction, improvement, or repair of a road when deposited on the road project site 
1.14 	in a manner that is in compliance with best management practices and under rules of the 
1.15 	agency; sewage sludge; solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other common 
1.16 	pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial 
1.17 	wastewater effluents or discharges which are point sources subject to permits under 
1.18 	section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, dissolved materials 
1.19 	in irrigation return flows; or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by 
1.20 	the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

1.21 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.