MN SF3422

Grants the Pollution Control Agency authority to revoke or refuse to issue permits for commercial waste facilities and animal feedlot facilities if applicants or permittees lack sufficient expertise and competence to operate in compliance with state requirements.

Allows the agency to consider permit applicants' and permittees' experience, expertise, past operating records in Minnesota and other states, and criminal convictions (within five years) when making permit decisions.

Requires the agency to provide permit applicants or permittees with relevant information and opportunity to respond before denying or revoking permits, and permits applicants to request a hearing under chapter 14.

Clarifies that the permit applicant or permittee definition includes natural persons, partnerships with owners, and corporations with parent companies, and that investigation costs must be paid by the applicant or permittee.

Amends hydrogen sulfide monitoring requirements to mandate the agency monitor downwind boundaries of concentrated animal feeding operations and establishes a 75 parts per billion hydrogen sulfide measurement as the threshold for an imminent public health threat.