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Subd. 26. Regional development commission. <br />"Regional development commission" means a commission established pursuant to <br />sections 462.381 to 462.397. <br /> <br />Subd. 26a. Resource conservation. <br />"Resource conservation" means the reduction in the use of water, energy, and raw materials. <br /> <br />Subd. 27. Resource recovery. <br />"Resource recovery" means the reclamation for sale, use, or reuse of materials, substances, energy, <br />or other products contained within or derived from waste. <br /> <br />Subd. 28. Resource recovery facility. <br />"Resource recovery facility" means a waste facility established and used primarily for resource <br />recovery, including related and appurtenant facilities such as transmission facilities and transfer stations <br />primarily serving the resource recovery facility. <br /> <br />Subd. 28a. Retrievable storage. <br />"Retrievable storage" means a method of disposal whereby wastes are placed in a facility established <br />pursuant to sections 115A.18 to 115A.30 for an indeterminate period in a manner designed to allow the <br />removal of the waste at a later time. <br /> <br />Subd. 28b. Sanitary district. <br />"Sanitary district" means a sanitary district with the authority to regulate solid waste. <br /> <br />Subd. 29. Sewage sludge. <br />"Sewage sludge" means solid, semisolid, or liquid residue generated during the treatment of <br />domestic sewage in a treatment works. It includes, but is not limited to, scum or solids removed in <br />primary, secondary, or advanced wastewater treatment processes and a material derived from sewage <br />sludge. Sewage sludge does not include ash generated during the firing of sewage sludge in a sewage <br />sludge incinerator or grit and screenings generated during preliminary treatment of domestic sewage in a <br />treatment works. Sewage sludge that is acceptable and beneficial for recycling on land as a soil <br />conditioner and nutrient source is also known as biosolids. <br /> <br />Subd. 30. Sewage sludge disposal facility. <br />"Sewage sludge disposal facility" means property owned or leased by a political subdivision and <br />used for interim or final disposal or land spreading of sewage sludge. <br /> <br />Subd. 31. Solid waste. <br />"Solid waste" has the meaning given it in section 116.06, subdivision 22. <br /> <br />Subd. 32. Solid waste management district or waste district. <br />"Solid waste management district" or "waste district" means a geographic area extending into two or <br />more counties in which the management of solid waste is vested in a special district established pursuant <br />to sections 115A.62 to 115A.72. <br /> <br />48 <br /> <br />