MN HF3230

Amends Minnesota Statutes section 216B.241, subdivision 5, to expand the efficient lighting program to include promotion of LED (light-emitting diode) lamps alongside fluorescent and high-intensity discharge lamps.

Requires public utilities, cooperative electric associations, and municipal utilities to include a public information campaign promoting LED lamp use and proper management of spent lamps across all customer classifications.

Mandates utilities serving 200,000 or more retail customers establish a collection system for spent fluorescent and high-intensity discharge lamps from households and small businesses generating fewer than ten lamps per year, with reasonably convenient collection locations and financial incentives.

Allows smaller utilities and cooperatives to voluntarily establish collection systems and prohibits the Pollution Control Agency from requiring utilities to manage collected lamps as hazardous waste if lamps are protected from breakage and delivered to recycling facilities that remove mercury and toxic materials.

Defines "LED lamp" as a light-emitting diode lamp consisting of a solid state device that emits visible light through electric current passing through a semiconductor, and classifies all promotion and collection costs as conservation improvement spending.