California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 6 - Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund

• Section 25299.50.
  (a) The Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The money in the fund may be expended by the board, upon...
• Section 25299.50.2.
  (a) The Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Contamination Orphan Site Cleanup Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the sum of...
• Section 25299.50.3.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “school district” means a school district as defined in Section 80 of the Education Code, or a county office of...
• Section 25299.50.4.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the board and the Department of Toxic Substances Control, using information gathered and reported pursuant to subdivision...
• Section 25299.50.5.
  Upon the repeal of Section 25299.50.3, all moneys in the School District Account and all moneys due that account shall revert to, and accrue to...
• Section 25299.50.6.
  (a) The Site Cleanup Subaccount is hereby established in the State Treasury. Moneys shall be deposited in the subaccount pursuant to subdivision (m) of Section 25299.51.(b) The...
• Section 25299.50.7.
  (a) The Expedited Claim Account is hereby created in the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund for expenditure by the board to pay claims that have been...
• Section 25299.51.
  The board may expend the moneys in the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund, created under subdivision (a) of Section 25299.50, for all the following purposes:(a) In...
• Section 25299.51.2.
  (a) On or before December 31, 2019, and at least once every five years thereafter, the board shall commission an independent program audit and a fiscal...
• Section 25299.51.3.
  (a) The board shall conduct a study to determine the cost-effectiveness and the feasability of issuing bonds to satisfy the obligations against the fund existing on...
• Section 25299.51.4.
  (a) On or before June 1, 2016, the board shall conduct an analysis of whether the ranking criteria for the payment of claims pursuant to Sections...
• Section 25299.52.
  (a) The board shall adopt a priority ranking list at least annually for awarding claims pursuant to Section 25299.57 or 25299.58. Any owner or operator eligible...
• Section 25299.53.
  (a) A regional board or a local agency taking, or contracting for, corrective action pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 25296.10 in response to an unauthorized...
• Section 25299.54.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), and (h), an owner or operator, required to perform corrective action pursuant to Section 25296.10,...
• Section 25299.55.
  The board shall prescribe appropriate forms and procedures for claims filed pursuant to Section 25299.54 that shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:(a) A...
• Section 25299.56.
  (a) The board shall determine an applicant’s eligibility for a claim for corrective action costs or third-party compensation costs pursuant to Section 25299.57 or 25299.58 and...
• Section 25299.57.
  (a) (1) If the board makes the determination specified in subdivision (d) for a claim filed on or before December 31, 2014, the board may only pay...
• Section 25299.58.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), if the board makes the determination specified in subdivision (b), the board may reimburse only those costs that are...
• Section 25299.59.
  (a) If the board has paid out of the fund for any costs of corrective action, the board shall not pay any other claim out of...
• Section 25299.60.
  (a) The board shall not pay any claims against or presented to the fund pursuant to this article if the claim exceeds the total money in...
• Section 25299.61.
  The board shall not pay any claims against or presented to the fund pursuant to this article if the claims are in connection with an...
• Section 25299.62.
  If funding is available, all reimbursement requests that are approved shall be forwarded to the Controller within 10 days from the date of approval, for...
• Section 25299.63.
  This article does not require any person to pursue a claim against the board pursuant to this article before seeking any other remedy. This section...

Last modified: October 22, 2018