Ch. 67 LAWS OF MARYLAND

evidence of financial responsibility for certain underground storage tanks;
authorizing the Department to suspend enforcement of certain requirements for
certain persons under certain circumstances; defining a certain term; making this
Act an emergency measure defining certain terms; and generally relating to the
regulation and enforcement of underground oil storage tanks.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Environment
Section 4-401(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Environment

Section 4-401 (f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Environment
Section 4-409

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

Preamble

WHEREAS,—In 1988, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adopted
regulations—requiring—tke—owner—or—operator—el—underground—storage—tanks—to
demonstrate financial responsibility for the costs of potential discharges;

WHEREAS,—The purpose of these financial responsibility requirements is to
assure that funds will be available to pay for cleanup and third party liability;

WHEREAS,—In—1989, the Governor's Task Force on Underground Storage
Tanks was appointed to study problems of underground storage tanks and propose
legislative solutions;

WHEREAS,—The Governor's Task Force has found that financial insurance
mechanisms are available to all EPA established categories of tank owners or operatoro;

WHEREAS,—The Governor's Task Force has recommended that the State not
establish a State insurance fund for underground storage tanks at this time; now,
therefore,

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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