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4Y Ii ■ Ma innesota Drycleaner Fund .,, Help for Pollution 'a Control Environmental Cleanup Costs Agency Cleanup 4.05 The Minnesota Legislature, working where does the finding ware from 2-10-98 with drycleaners trade associations and and how will it be used? the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Annual registration fees paid by (UTCA), established the Drycleaner drycleaning facilities, as well as solvent inneaota Superfund Environmental response and fees collected by retailers of particular Program and Voluntary Reimbursement Account(Drycleaner drycleaning chemicals,will be used to Invest'lgation and Fund) in 1995 to help clean up finance the Drycleaner Fund. The fees Cleanup Prograrn contamination problems faced by are subrmitted to the 1%r nesota members of the drycleaning industry. Department of Revenue, which The law Minn. Stat. sections 11 E.47- administers the fund. Under the later, the 5B.5 1), updated wring the 1997 NV A can use the money in the Fund session,provides a means to pay for the for two primary purposes: cleanup of soil, ground-water or surface- . emergency removals, environmental water con on at dryc le amng ins and cleanups at facilities. cleanup can be conducted drycleaning facilities on the state either by the�CA or by drycleaning uper�nd list(the Permanent List of facility owners or operators who Priorities)- or volunteer to conduct response actions reimbursement of owners or operators that have been approved by the 1P A. � facilities' who have a�drycleaning entered the NTCA"s Voluntary Nfty was the drycleaner fund Investigation and Cleanup 1C) establshed? Program and whose sites rewire chd . chemicals (such as cleanup. onxe � perchloroethylene and hydrocarbon- Under either approach,the dryclea�ng based solvents)were not handled facility owner or operator is responsible properly in the past,before the risks of for 10,000 of the environmental improper handling or disposal were response costs. known. past spills, leafs or careless disposal of these chemicals have resulted Who is eligible for reimbursement in soil, ground-water and surface-water from the Drycleaner]Fund9 contamination at various sites cleanir } . wx�only a few exceptions,� g throughout Minnesota. organ'zations . . . provided services to the . • . . facilities that representing drycleamng facilities ■ 1 for general public apply wanted funding options for businesses the 1 ist of f aeilit�nnte�t on rec��le�paper rebursernent, (See y containing at least 20 facing the cost of cieamarYg up problems irnbursement on. � types not eligible for re percent fibers from paper from the past. elect consumers. page . recycled Y Minnesota Pollution control Agency,520 North Lafayette Road,St.Paul, Minnesota 55155-4194 (61 2)296-6300, toll-free(800)657-3864,TDa(612)282+5332 _f� .... ..}.kits rrf�#d%•T-x1 r-on ho n !pe4a:stm;ighiP in gitpm.it±vp formats for aeoole with disabilities.