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AB 1465 Assembly BM-AMENDED http://www.leginfo.m.gov/pub/bdll#ab...00/ab 1465 bill20010404_amended_asm.html <br /> BILL NUMBER: <br /> TE465 AMENDED <br /> IXT <br /> AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 4, 2001 <br /> INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Nation <br /> FEBRUARY 23, 2001 - <br /> An act to amend Sections 25284.1, 25299.13, 25299.24, 25299.37, <br /> 25299.52, 25299.56, 25299.57, 25299.58, 25299.62, 25299.78, and <br /> 25299.81 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to underground <br /> storage tanks. <br /> LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST <br /> AB 1465, as amended, Nation. Underground Storage Tank Cleanup <br /> Fund. <br /> (1) Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board <br /> to initiate a specified research program to quantify the probability <br /> and environmental significance of releases from petroleum underground <br /> storage tank systems that meet certain upgrade requirements and <br /> prohibits any person from taking specified actions with regard to <br /> monitoring equipment for an underground storage tank, unless the <br /> person meets specified requirements, including possessing specified <br /> licenses. <br /> This bill would additionally allow the person to possess a <br /> tank-testing license issued by the board. <br /> (2) Under the existing Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank <br /> Cle§Lnup Trust Fund Act of 1989, every owner of an underground storage <br /> tank is required to pay a storage fee for each gallon of petroleum <br /> placed in the tank. The fees are required to be deposited in the <br /> Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund. The money in the fund may be <br /> expended by the State Water Resources Control Board, upon <br /> appropriation by the Legislature, for various purposes, including the <br /> payment of claims of up to $1,500,000 per occurrence, as defined, to <br /> aid owners and operators of petroleum underground storage tanks who <br /> take corrective action to clean up unauthorized releases from those <br /> tanks and the payment of claims for certain third party injuries and <br /> damages. Existing law defines the terms "claim" and "tank" for <br /> purposes of the act. <br /> This bill would revise the definition of the term "claim" to mean <br /> the submittal to the fund for the reimbursement of costs incurred due <br /> to an occurrence and would revise the definition of the term "tank" <br /> to include a tank that contains only petroleum, or, consistent <br /> with the federal laws regulating petroleum underground storage tanks, <br /> a mixture of petroleum, with de minimus quantities of other <br /> regulated substances <br /> The bill <br /> would revise the eligibility requirements for a claimant with regard <br /> to the payment of fees imposed by the act. <br /> The bill would require an owner or operator to furnish information <br /> on the fees imposed under the act to a local agency, California <br /> regional water control board, or state board, under penalty of <br /> perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by creating <br /> a new crime. <br /> (3) Existing law repeals the act, by its own terms, on January 1, t <br /> 2011, but provides that the repeal of the act does not telgat®tl hdt <br /> 1 of 15 O LL 4/24/013:49 PM <br />