MN asphalt recovery facility bonds.
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A Minnesota facility that stockpiles and reprocesses salvaged bituminous, millings, or tear-off shingles is a solid waste management facility in the eyes of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), and the agency takes financial assurance so the site is closed properly if the operator cannot do it. A surety bond is one of the accepted mechanisms. Our premium is priced at 0.5% of the bond amount, with a $100 minimum; the application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.
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The agency side of a solid waste file takes as long as it takes. The bond does not — once you know the cost-estimate figure, this is the fastest document in the folder:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount your permit or closure document names, and an effective date. That is the entire application — no financial statements and no credit section.
Pay & e-sign
Your price is final at checkout — 0.5% of the bond amount, with a $100 minimum. The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly. If a check ever runs, it is a soft pull that will not affect your score.
File it with the agency
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the MPCA — or with your county solid waste office if your facility sits in a metropolitan county that licenses it. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the asphalt recovery bond actually guarantees
Recovered asphalt is a genuinely valuable material in Minnesota — the MPCA’s own beneficial-use rule gives salvaged bituminous a standing determination when it substitutes for conventional aggregate under MnDOT Standard Specifications, and gives the same standing to manufactured shingle scrap and ground tear-off shingle scrap used in asphalt pavement or road subbases. Up to five percent of the weight of plant-mixed asphalt on Minnesota roads may come from recycled shingles. None of that changes the fact that the material arrives as solid waste and sits on your ground until it moves.
That pile is what the bond is about. Minnesota’s solid waste rules require the owner or operator of a facility to carry financial assurance for closure, postclosure care, and corrective action, sized to an approved cost estimate, so that a stalled or abandoned site does not become a public expense. A surety bond guaranteeing performance is one of the accepted mechanisms; a bond guaranteeing payment into a trust fund, a trust fund, a letter of credit, and certain commissioner-approved alternatives are the others.
It is not insurance for you. If the surety performs or pays, you reimburse the surety. The bond runs to the commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency, the surety must be a company listed as acceptable on federal bonds in U.S. Treasury Circular 570, and a cancellation does not take effect until 120 days after the commissioner receives the notice — the agency is deliberately given a long runway to force a replacement before the assurance disappears.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit section, because this application does not collect credit information. Enter the amount your permit or license names and your exact price is set at the application from a $100 minimum.
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Close the financial-assurance line on your permit.
Premiums from $100, no credit section, and the bond issues the moment you pay. Enter your approved cost-estimate figure and file the same day. Free until issued.