Minnesota Statutes 473.615 – Report; Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
(a) By January 31 annually, the commission must submit a report on climate mitigation and adaptation to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction over transportation finance and policy.
Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 473.615
- Airport: means any locality, either of land or water, including intermediate landing fields, which is used or intended to be used for the landing and take off of aircraft, whether or not facilities are provided for the shelter, servicing, or repair of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo, and also includes any facility used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including, but without limitation, landing areas, lights, any apparatus or equipment for disseminating weather information, for signaling, for radio-directional finding, or for radio or other electrical communication, and any other structure or mechanism having a similar purpose for guiding or controlling flight in the air or the landing and take off of aircraft, and also includes, but without limitation, access roads, parking areas, railroad siding facilities, such land contiguous or not as may be required for installations necessary for safe and efficient operation, buildings, structures, hangars, shops and any personal property usually used in connection with the operations of such airports, including specifically, but not exclusively, snow removal or impacting equipment, fire and ambulance equipment, motor vehicles and equipment for buildings, structures, hangars, and shops. See Minnesota Statutes 473.121
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Minority: means with respect to an individual the period of time during which the individual is a minor. See Minnesota Statutes 645.451
(b) At a minimum, the report must:
(1) summarize activities and evaluate performance at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in support of the following 2030 goals adopted by the commission:
(i) a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to a level that is at least 80 percent below 2015 levels;
(ii) a reduction in water usage per airline passenger to a level that is at least 15 percent below 2015 levels; and
(iii) diversion of at least 75 percent of all waste through waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting programs; and
(2) summarize findings from the commission’s 2023 waste characterization study.
(c) The report due by January 31, 2024, must also include a plan and timeline for the reduction of single-use plastics, including but not limited to a potential ban on plastic water bottles. The commission must develop the plan following a stakeholder engagement process.
(d) This section expires June 30, 2030.