MN SF3331

Amends Minnesota Statutes section 216B.241, subdivision 5 to require public utilities, cooperative electric associations, and municipal utilities to promote LED lamps as part of conservation improvement activities.

Public utilities serving 200,000 or more retail customers must establish a spent lamp collection system for households and small businesses generating fewer than ten spent lamps per year.

Collection systems must include reasonably convenient locations and financial incentives such as coupons, cash back, or other incentives to encourage customers to return spent lamps for recycling.

Utilities may contract with lamp manufacturers, distributors, retailers, local government units, and recycling facilities to operate collection systems; contracts with local governments must cover all incremental costs.

Pollution Control Agency cannot require utilities to manage collected lamps as hazardous waste if lamps are managed to avoid breakage and delivered to facilities that remove mercury and toxic materials before disposal.

Defines "LED lamp" as a light-emitting diode lamp that emits visible light when electric current passes through a semiconductor; effective the day following final enactment.