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Ch. 604
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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Site Environmental Cleanup Fund and a certain date on which the fee expires;
designating certain dates that site rehabilitation costs from contamination
caused by releases from certain oil tanks may be eligible for reimbursement
from certain funds; designating a certain percentage of revenues in the Oil
Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund that shall be used for heating
oil tank site rehabilitation; increasing the percentage of the Oil Contaminated
Site Environmental Cleanup Fund that may be used by the Department for
administration of obligations relating to the Fund; restricting certain tanks
from eligibility for funding; providing that certain revenues from the Oil
Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund be invested in interest
bearing accounts with the accrued interest credited to certain Fund uses;
authorizing owners or operators of certain tanks to apply for certain funds for
reimbursement after a certain date and restricting reimbursements to certain
limits per occurrence; exempting certain tanks from certain certifications;
prohibiting from reimbursement from the Oil Contaminated Site
Environmental Cleanup Fund certain costs for replacement or retrofitting of
certain tanks; adding certain tanks for which the Department may, when it
assumes control of an oil spill, be reimbursed from the Oil Contaminated Site
Environmental Cleanup Fund; adding certain site rehabilitation costs that,
when incurred by the Department, may be recovered from certain persons;
authorizing the Secretary of the Environment to transfer certain funds reserved
in the Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean-Up and Contingency Fund to
fund other related activities for certain fiscal years; requiring the Secretary of
the Environment to convene a work group to provide certain findings and
recommendations; requiring the Department to report to certain committees of
the legislature by a certain date or as designated by the Secretary of the
Environment; prohibiting the Department from spending certain revenues
derived from certain license fees altered under this Act until the Department
satisfies a certain audit report recommendation; and generally relating to the
Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean-Up and Contingency Fund and the
Oil Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Environment
Section 4-411, 4-704, 4-705, and 4-706
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Environment
4-411.
(a) In this section the following words and phrases have the meanings
indicated.
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