Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 138 - Public Utilities Commission
Chapter 7855 - CERTIFICATE OF NEED; LARGE ENERGY FACILITY
FUEL CONVERSION, COAL LIQUIDS PIPELINES, NUCLEAR FUEL, AND WASTES
Part 7855.0030 - SCOPE OF RULES
Universal Citation: MN Rules 7855.0030
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1. Facilities subject to rules.
Each person applying for a certificate of need to construct one of the following types of large energy facilities pursuant to this chapter shall provide all information required by this chapter:
A. a new fuel conversion facility;
B. expansion of an existing fuel conversion
facility by at least 25 tons per hour of input material over the base capacity
of the facility;
C. a new coal
slurry or coal liquids pipeline;
D.
expansion of an existing coal slurry pipeline by at least 1,000 tons of coal or
coal derivatives per day over the base capacity of the facility;
E. expansion of an existing coal liquids
pipeline by at least 15,000 barrels per day over the base capacity of the
facility;
F. a new nuclear fuel
processing facility;
G. expansion
of an existing nuclear fuel processing facility by at least 20 percent of the
base capacity of the facility;
H. a
new nuclear waste storage or disposal facility; and
I. expansion of an existing nuclear waste
storage or disposal facility by at least 20 percent of the base capacity of the
facility.
Subp. 2. Exceptions.
The following types of facilities shall not be subject to this chapter:
A. any large energy
facility on which construction has begun or has been completed by November 14,
1978;
B. any nuclear waste storage
or disposal facility to be constructed in conjunction with a large generating
facility that itself requires a certificate of need, unless the total capacity
of that storage facility is not covered by the certificate of need issued for
the large electric generating facility and associated facilities; and
C. any facility covered by Minnesota Statutes
1977 Supplement, sections
116C.71 to
116C.74, unless
expressly authorized by the legislature.
Statutory Authority: MS s 216B.08; 216B.2421; 216B.243; 216C.10
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