WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                      H.B. 1394

Environment - Oil Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund and Underground
Storage Tank Upgrade and Replacement Fund

FOR the purpose of creating an Oil Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund;
establishing a certain fee, in addition to the current fee, for certain persons
transferring oil, except heating oil, in the State; providing for the duration and
application of the fee; providing for the abatement of the fee under certain
circumstances; establishing a certain fee for a certain period of time for certain
underground oil storage tanks to be paid into the Fund; providing for the
management of the that Fund; authorizing the that Fund to be used for certain
purposes; prohibiting the use of the that Fund for certain purposes; requiring the
Department to establish an early detection incentive program; establishing certain
deductibles and eligibility criteria for the Fund; requiring the Department of the
Environment to adopt certain regulations by a certain date; defining certain terms;
extending to a certain date the existence and functions of the Underground Storage
Tank Upgrade and Replacement Fund; extending to a certain date the collection of
certain fees under the Underground Storage Tank Upgrade and Replacement
Fund; requiring the Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning the Environment to
study and make certain recommendations on certain oil cleanup issues by a certain
date, in conjunction with certain entities; providing certain funding for the Oil
Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund for certain fiscal years; providing
for the effective date of this Act; and generally relating to underground storage tank
cleanup activities.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
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Section 4-411(b) and (c)(2) and 4-602
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
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Section 4-411(c)(l), 4-606, and 4-607
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY adding to

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Section 4-701 through 4 710 4-708 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 7. Oil

Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

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

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