Section 25270.9 Of Chapter 6.67. Aboveground Storage Of Petroleum From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 20. >> Chapter 6.67.
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. (a) The board and the regional board may oversee cleanup
or abatement efforts, or cause cleanup or abatement efforts, of a
release from a storage tank at a tank facility.
(b) The reasonable expenses of the board and the regional board
incurred in overseeing, or contracting for, cleanup or abatement
efforts that result from a release at a tank facility is a charge
against the owner or operator of the tank facility. Expenses
reimbursable to a public agency under this section are a debt of the
tank facility owner or operator, and shall be collected in the same
manner as in the case of an obligation under a contract, express or
implied.
(c) Expenses recovered by the board or a regional board pursuant
to this section shall be deposited into the Waste Discharge Permit
Fund. These moneys shall be separately accounted for, and shall be
expended by the board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to
assist regional boards and other public agencies with authority to
clean up waste or abate the effects of the waste, in cleaning up or
abating the effects of the waste on waters of the state, or for the
purposes authorized in Section 13443 of the Water Code.