Section 25299.95.
25299.95. (a) An owner or operator named in a joint claim filed under this article may not file or maintain a claim under Article 6 (commencing with Section 25299.50) for the same occurrence. (b) When a joint claim under this article has been approved, the board shall remove any claims filed under Article 6 (commencing with Section […]
Section 25299.96.
25299.96. The priority for payment of a joint claim submitted under this article shall be based on the date on which the board receives a complete application. For purposes of this section, an application shall not be considered complete until the applicable local agency or other regulatory agency confirms the existence of a commingled plume […]
Section 25299.97.
25299.97. (a) For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Public drinking water well” means a wellhead that provides drinking water to a public water system, as that term is defined in Section 116275, that is regulated by the State Water Resources Control Board and that is subject to Section 116455. (2) “MTBE” means […]
Section 25299.82.
25299.82. To ensure that the phase out of the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund program, as provided in Section 25299.81, is achieved in an orderly manner that enables owners and operators to maintain continuous coverage for financial responsibility obligations required by Sections 25292.2 and 25299.31 and the federal act, the board shall take the following […]
Section 25299.90.
25299.90. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Commingled plumes of petroleum contaminated groundwater involve serious water quality impacts. (b) Unauthorized releases from underground storage tanks are a major source of commingled plumes of petroleum contaminated groundwater. (c) Unless corrective action is performed in a coordinated manner, remedial action of commingled plumes may be […]
Section 25299.70.
25299.70. (a) The board may recover any costs incurred and payable from the fund pursuant to subdivisions (c), (e), (h), and (n) of Section 25299.51 from the owner or operator of the underground storage tank which released the petroleum and which is the subject of those costs or from any other responsible party. (b) The liability of […]
Section 25299.91.
25299.91. As used in this article, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) “Commingled plume” means the condition that exists when groundwater contaminated with petroleum from two or more discrete unauthorized releases have mixed or encroached upon one another to the extent that the corrective action performed on one plume will necessarily affect the other. […]
Section 25299.71.
25299.71. (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), if a person is convicted under Section 25299.80.5 or is found to be civilly liable under Section 25299.78 or 25299.80, the executive director of the board may permanently disqualify that person from receiving any moneys from the fund. If the executive director of the board determines […]
Section 25299.92.
25299.92. A sum not to exceed ten million dollars ($10,000,000) from Item 3940-001-0439 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 1996 (Ch. 162, Stats. 1996) shall be available for expenditure for the 1996–97 fiscal year for the purposes of this article. In subsequent fiscal years, it is the intent of the Legislature that an […]
Section 25299.72.
25299.72. Upon motion and sufficient showing by any party, the court shall join to the action any person who may be liable for costs or expenditures of the type recoverable pursuant to this article. (Added by renumbering Section 25299.62 by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1366, Sec. 27. Effective September 27, 1990. Repealed as of January 1, […]