Hennepin County Environmental Services (Public Works), Hazardous Waste Licensing

Hazardous Waste Generator License (annual)

Confirmed countywide, including Minneapolis: Ordinance 7, §3.01 provides that 'no person shall, within the County, make or allow property under that person's control to be used for any activity which generates wastes regulated under this ordinance' without a granted license, and — unlike the food, pool and body-art programs, which each carve out cities running their own MDH-delegated program — the hazardous waste ordinance has no city-exclusion mechanism of any kind. Any business generating hazardous waste above the minimal-generator threshold needs this license regardless of which Hennepin County city it sits in. The county's own guidance names vehicle maintenance, repair and auto-body shops as one of three simplified-form generator categories (the others are paint/property-management and general retail/wholesale), making this the clearest, most directly-on-point county requirement for auto-repair. Veterinary clinics and salons are not named as their own simplified category, but plausibly trip the threshold from anesthetic gases, cleaning chemicals, photographic/X-ray chemicals or bulk solvent and acetone storage — whether either actually crosses a fee tier depends on measured waste volume, checked case by case against the tier table above rather than assumed.