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7MU11. wC13INH M BUYLE FAX NO. : 209 5248011 06-01-98 12:36P P.22 <br /> 818 F.Supp.292 PAP 9 <br /> (Cite U:1118 I.5epp.V2, ) V <br /> attharired to implMent thane prgviskftf Ha h and its inapplicability to n'dttted petrEja m spills, <br /> c4dweas"the Califaagis,LvewaW".thcrefam,taro <br /> Spilled <br /> &, and *297 MDISP05ITTDN <br /> 119MAMs M br- ries <br /> Wilshire Westwood Aria. v. Arlmrda Rja&GK RBI <br /> F'Zd 0o1,805-08(ft Cif-1989)(CWM ifthrg IVSjadatira 1rt fight of the plain meuniug of secpon 253ITS <br /> histmy of S,�T, pMotaim exelnsaaa *1Ms4 in lttagmw excluding rcfiud panvktim ad itis <br /> light of later amerAme us to the statute and rel,ludiog ccuxs Uwnts f m the Act,the EPA's ad Nmlb Circuit's <br /> ttyat Cp WM- bkr- ed to Wdsecs spilled pWahum broad in"em4aan of the nearly, idenontlls_wocded <br /> From aodcMmrmd bolls sq—tely fk. *Pd "pe$*10WM expllrsaan" m federal CERCI A, and the <br /> haiAsdous w wom $Ppamt ugent of die Legislat m to June rimed <br /> pctrokaun out of the Act,ddmdaut's motion to 15SMiss <br /> [�� FAY. Azrtica� argues that the funding of #hc the eau. of action rooted fix the Act must be gretrsed. <br /> Underground SUwabre Tarim Prog m was derived Brom <br /> the California Sugafund A,ct. Amicus ponds that,in The court realizes the oxcerm this raring may raise. <br /> WPrOMaliltg these Piuids£raiz the Act's Bored Fund(i Without olsci('yiung action,by tba Crliffi niz Iagi.xlatum. <br /> 25395.5), the L egislatum knew that the cxtpenditure today's Wding could impede ftt im effoos by the <br /> was governed by§25310's"wail est+sbli shed"principle Department to enforoe clean-ups under the Act <br /> that all the limitations contained in the Act carry over to mvolvittg relined perrolemn spills. Mvertfxeless, thtr <br /> the new program. This assertion is unfounded for two plain areatxing of the Act's petroleum eaaclu�tios is <br /> resscm., (t) dou 253 l O cmtairus the Ant's <br /> "Def uitiow,"and nowhm does that section limit Bond Mmapable. 10 the abserlae of 000trollitig autho*, <br /> Fund expexAbirim m tea teriras of the,Act, and(2)the this ObLut is rompellcd to reach this Conclusion. It is <br /> pruvisions of the Bond Fund audwrim several possible for d1c Caaiforilia L.egWa xe,oat die C+ au,to pary <br /> expenditures from the Fund (for ccamplc, to provide the Act if the L.eguilature wants to include rued <br /> the state share of remedial action costs birder the petrokma- ugly, plaixxtiffls third and fourth <br /> federal Supetfxruld), but die[mire of the Fund nowhere causes ofact on rider dw Act are <br /> pmbilit rhe Lesislature 1`ran using the Fund for odter <br /> puapows. Accordingly,it is reAse•able to assume that DISMISSED. <br /> the l,egislatture desWLed the Underground Tank <br /> PYogram as a response to the slr vtcvnrxiugs of dw Act END OF DOCUMENT <br /> Copr.0 West 1998 No Claim to oliig.U's.Govt.Works <br />